Biography: S.Z. Sakall |
Chubby-jowled Hungarian character actor S.Z. Sakall began as a sketch writer for Budapest vaudeville shows, then turned to acting at age 18. Initially billed as Szoeko Szakall (the name translated to "blonde beard," in honor of the hirsute adornment... more
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Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
Cast: Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart
Tags: Comedy
Length: 90min
If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then Warner Bros. could do the same. Lacking a Crosby or Hope, Warners paired Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson (who like Crosby and...
Cast: Busby Berkeley
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Musical Comedy Musical
Length: 88min
Busby Berkeley directed this lightweight musical comedy in which Judy Jones (Joan Leslie) is informed that she's due to receive a 10 million inheritance, but with one very large string attached: she has to marry an unusually intelligent man. With the...
Cast: Errol Flynn
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 97min
Romantic comedy was never Errol Flynn's forte, but he occasionally gave it the old college try in such films as Never Say Goodbye. Flynn plays Phil Gayley, a Petty-like magazine illustrator, whose close proximity with gorgeous female models ruins his...
Tags: Traditional Western Western
Length: 105min
In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that San Antonio saloon proprietor Roy Stuart (Paul Kelly) is actually a cattle rustler of major proportions. Determined to bring...
Cast: Betty Grable
Tags: Biopic Showbiz Drama Comedy Musical Romance
Length: 114min
The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took Broadway by storm in the early 1900s. Betty Grable plays Jennie and June Haver plays Rosie; their uncle is the inevitable "funny...
Cast: Cesar Romero Sonja Henie S.Z. Sakall Jack Oakie
Tags: Musical Drama Musical Romance Musical
Length: 82min
In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly arrived in the U.S., Nora and her millionaire uncle Hjallmar (S. Z. Sakall) are sweet-talked into investing in a failing resort...
Cast: Gary Cooper Barbara Stanwyck Howard Hawks
Tags: Comedy of Manners Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 120min
Ball of Fire is a delightful retelling (by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett) of the "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" legend -- though strictly for grownups. Gary Cooper is the youngest of eight bookish professors authoring an encyclopedia. They find...
Cast: Danny Kaye Vera-Ellen
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Comedy Fantasy
Length: 98min
Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle and Edwin's extroverted twin brother, nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew. When Buzzy witnesses a gangland shooting, he himself...
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Cast: Jean Arthur Edmund Gwenn
Tags: Satire Sophisticated Comedy Comedy Workplace Comedy
Length: 90min
The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store that he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy,...
Length: 111min
Complete with a final production number filmed in Technicolor, this tuneful musical depicts the highly fictive ups and downs of fabled vaudeville headliners Jack Norworth (1879-1959) and Nora Bayes (1880-1928). After rejecting a partnership with...
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