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Jun 11, 2024 · The star of the picture is the sadly forgotten Jack Oakie, a genial comic able to project both street smarts and goofiness. His best-known role is the Mussolini figure in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator. Here, he’s American brush salesman Migg Tweeney, inexplicably in Klopstokia on a business trip with his eccentric millionaire boss.
2 days ago · Currently you are able to watch "The Great Dictator" streaming on Criterion Channel. It is also possible to buy "The Great Dictator" on Apple TV as download or rent it on Apple TV online.
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Jun 14, 2024 · Mankiewicz soon displayed his gift for comedy, writing material for comic actors Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields. His early writing credits include The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929); Skippy (1931), a family comedy that earned him an Academy Award nomination; If I Had a Million (1932), for which he coined Field’s famous phrase “my little ...
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5 days ago · The Affairs of Annabel is a 1938 comedy starring Lucille Ball and Jack Oakie. Oakie plays Lannie Morgan, Wonder Pictures publicity man working with film star Annabel Allison, her first starring comedy role.
Jun 17, 2024 · Goddard played Hannah, the barber’s Jewish friend, who flees Tomania after the barber is arrested and sent to a concentration camp, and Jack Oakie gave a hilarious impersonation of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria.
Jun 20, 2024 · Call of the Wild is a 1935 American adventure western film an adaptation of Jack London's 1903 novel The Call of the Wild. The film is directed by William A. Wellman, and stars Clark Gable,...
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Jun 13, 2024 · Both Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie were active participants in and during the famous Golden Age of Hollywood. Jack Oakie came to Hollywood in 1927. His career by that time already included vaudeville, Broadway musicals and appearances in New York films.
