Soupy Sales
Biography: Milton Supman, known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show Lunch with Soupy Sales, a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. From 1968 to 1975 he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? and appeared on several other TV game shows. During the 1980s, Sales hosted his own show on WNBC-AM in New York City. Sales is best known for his daily children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales. The show was originally called 12 O'Clock Comics, and was later known as The Soupy Sales Show. Improvised and slapstick in nature, Lunch with Soupy Sales was a rapid-fire stream of comedy sketches, gags, and puns, almost all of which resulted in Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. Sales developed pie-throwing into an art form: straight to the face, on top of the head, a pie to both ears from behind, moving into a stationary pie, and countless other variations. He claimed that he and his visitors had been hit by more than 20,000 pies during his career. He recounted a time when a young fan mistakenly threw a frozen pie at his neck and he "dropped like a pile of bricks."
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 28, 1926
Deathday: October 22, 2009
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A Little Bit of Lipstck
2000-02-17
A Little Bit of Lipstck
Overview: A full-figured teen working at a crumbling regional theater discovers that beauty comes in all sizes.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-17
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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016-05-03
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Overview: Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-03
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Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
1977-12-18
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
Overview: During World War II, an Italian POW is accidentally drafted into the American army.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-18
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The Two Little Bears
1961-11-01
The Two Little Bears
Overview: Two little boys use a magic potion to turn themselves into bears.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Behind the Seams
2000-06-01
Behind the Seams
Overview: Casey McCan, a top supermodel who seemingly has it all - looks, fame, wealth, an intellectual playboy boyfriend...a stalker? Well, maybe not everything! Cameos by Soupy Sales, Moon Zappa, Cathy Kinney and Dick Cavett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-01
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The Making of '...And God Spoke'
1994-09-23
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Overview: A documentary on the making of a big budget Bible picture. This is a spoof that shows the inside action on a film set where everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Birds Do It
1966-08-13
Birds Do It
Overview: Melvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy "miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor" - in short, a janitor. His job is to keep a major rocket project completely dust-free, and this he does with his own hilariously fantastic inventions - including a literal attack on dirt by a "knight on a white horse". In his work, he meets Judy, a chimp involved in a top-secret project, which leads Melvin into the one room strictly off-limits to him. Not until he has entered the project room does Melvin learn that any man entering it will be negatively ionized - making him fly like a bird.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Bill's Hat
1967-01-01
Bill's Hat
Overview: "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’s only love: therefore it can’t harm you". Joyce Wieland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Black Scorpion Returns
2001-09-25
Black Scorpion Returns
Overview: Darcy Walker is a police officer, who by night takes to the streets and fights crime as the superhero the Black Scorpion.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-25
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Murder at N.B.C.
1966-10-19
Murder at N.B.C.
Overview: A comedy classic whodunit with an amazing comedic ensemble group. An hour comedy special in which Bob Hope plays a mad scientist who invents a nuclear chemical that is capable of shrinking the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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