Shirley Jean Rickert

Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.

Filmed version of a burlesque performance, featuring strippers, songs and comedy routines.

Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself in a whole heap of grownup trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Philip Kirby.

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.

A group of young actresses reminisces about their days as part of a gang of kids, headed by Mickey McGuire. Their memories take the form of clips from episodes of the long running Mickey McGuire series of short comedies.

Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.

The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.

Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

1930 Comedy short

When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.

Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.

Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

Mickey and the gang get ready for a big game of football. But Stinky Davis has a few tricks up his sleeve to stop the gang from winning. Special guest star USC coach Howard Jones.