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A magazine writer (Red Skelton) reviews the suburban housing development he and his wife (Jean Hagen) call home.
Half a Hero is a 1953 American comedy film that stars Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, and Charles Dingle. Directed by Don Weis and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the movie centers around Ben Dobson (Red Skelton), a small-town hardware store owner who is mistaken for a legendary World War II hero.
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Audiences always roared with delight when Red Skelton went one-on-one with post-war life in The Yellow Cab Man, The Fuller Brush Man and other films. In Half a Hero, the legendary comic took on a slice of 20th-century Americana that still resonates today: the suburbs. Red plays Ben Dobson, a magazine writer whose boss approves of Ben because he lives in a cramped Manhattan apartment instead of ...
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Half a Hero brought him back to comedy, but in a more subdued tone, with a script by satirist Max Shulman, author of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which MGM had filmed in 1953 as The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The picture also marked the final MGM appearance for Jean Hagen, who would move to TV as Danny Thomas' wife in Make Room for Daddy, while featuring supporting turns by Mary Wickes and ...
Red Skelton stars as a hapless husband who gives into his wife and trades his life in the city for a house in the suburbs, a mortgage he can't afford …
