Writing

S.J. Perelman

Born 1904-02-01

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Around the World in 80 Days poster
6.7

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Around the World in 80 Days

1956

Monkey Business poster
6.9

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Monkey Business

1931

Horse Feathers poster
6.9

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

Horse Feathers

1932

Aladdin poster
10.0

Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television.

Aladdin

1958

The Golden Fleecing poster
5.9

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

The Golden Fleecing

1940

Florida Special poster
7.0

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.

Florida Special

1936

Elizabeth Taylor in London poster
8.0

Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in London, England, gives viewers a tour of the city, including her birthplace, the Westminster Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, Battersea Park and an East End church that was damaged in the infamous "blitz" air raids during World War II. She also recites several famous English poems and speeches by notable English figures.

Elizabeth Taylor in London

1963

Boy Trouble poster
6.0

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

Boy Trouble

1939

Ambush poster
6.0

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.

Ambush

1939

Sitting Pretty poster
8.0

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.

Sitting Pretty

1933

Hold 'Em Jail poster
6.8

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

Hold 'Em Jail

1932