Movies: Red Skelton

Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and faithfully believes in a comeback. He persuades "Uncle" Goldie, Dodo's agent in ...

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?...

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases....

A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks....

A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends....

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pir...

Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duk...

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is u...

An all-star cast joins Red Skelton in this lavish 60-minute salute to circus clowns....

Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....

A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation....

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno....

Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brow...

An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed....

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Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone....

Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine....

Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns...

Television special for the American Bicentennial starring Red Skelton, featuring the America on Parade pageant at Disneyland....