Al Ritz
Also Known As: Ritz Brothers, Albert "Al" Joachim, Albert Joachim
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 27, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 22, 1965
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The Sound of Laughter
Overview: A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-17
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The Gorilla
Overview: When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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On the Avenue
Overview: A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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Hotel Anchovy
Overview: The Ritz Brothers cause chaos in a bankrupt hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-12
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Kentucky Moonshine
Overview: The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Life Begins in College
Overview: When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Overview: The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-21
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You Can't Have Everything
Overview: Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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Hi'ya, Chum
Overview: Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-25
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Never a Dull Moment
Overview: Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-19
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Behind the Eight Ball
Overview: The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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Argentine Nights
Overview: An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Straight, Place and Show
Overview: The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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Show-Business at War
Overview: A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Take It or Leave It
Overview: A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-17
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
Overview: While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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One in a Million
Overview: American theatrical manager discovers Greta Muller preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
Overview: Fernand Gravey and Danielle Darrieux arrive in Hollywood; the Ritz Brothers achieve immortality, leaving their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre; a premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre brings out Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Barbara Stanwyck, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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