Jack Haley
Also Known As: Jack Haley Sr., John Joseph "Jack" Haley Jr., John Joseph Haley Jr.
Biography: John Joseph Haley Jr. (August 10, 1897 – June 6, 1979) was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer and vaudevillian. He was best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart Hickory in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Imada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 09, 1897
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 06, 1979
Popularity:
Known For:
The Wizard of Oz
Overview: Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-15
Popularity:
The 20th Amendment
Overview: The year is 1950. Food comes in the form of little pills - such as a pill for eggs and another pill for bacon. Coffee comes in the form of a spritz from a spray bottle, administered by a maid. One day Haley opens the newspaper to discover that a 20th amendment has been passed, "compelling every male citizen to have as many wives as he can support...because too many unmarried men are leaving this country due to the enforcement of Prohibition, and in order to protect the American home and the country's future population." So Haley immediately opens his little black book and before you know it has gathered a whole harem, one wife for each day of the week.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-22
Popularity:
One Body Too Many
Overview: An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
Popularity:
People Are Funny
Overview: A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
Popularity:
Scared Stiff
Overview: A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
Popularity:
Poor Little Rich Girl
Overview: Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
Genres: Adventure Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-18
Popularity:
Higher and Higher
Overview: A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-31
Popularity:
Moon Over Miami
Overview: After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-04
Popularity:
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Overview: Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-24
Popularity:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Overview: Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
Popularity:
Mr. Broadway
Overview: Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-12
Popularity:
Pigskin Parade
Overview: Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. The hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-23
Popularity:
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Overview: A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-25
Popularity:
Pick a Star
Overview: A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
Popularity:
Follow Thru
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-26
Popularity:
Danger – Love at Work
Overview: A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
Popularity:
Salt Water Daffy
Overview: In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
Popularity:
Mister Cinderella
Overview: Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-22
Popularity:
The Girl Friend
Overview: An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-27
Popularity:
Sitting Pretty
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-23
Popularity:
Here Comes the Groom
Overview: Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-21
Popularity:
Coronado
Overview: Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-27
Popularity:
George White's Scandals
Overview: Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-09
Popularity:
Spring Tonic
Overview: Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-27
Popularity:
Navy Blues
Overview: On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-13
Popularity:
Sing Your Way Home
Overview: A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musical comedy filled with memorable performances.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-14
Popularity:
Wake Up and Live
Overview: Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
Popularity:
Hold That Co-ed
Overview: An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
Popularity:
Thanks for Everything
Overview: Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-23
Popularity:
F-Man
Overview: Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the process.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-02
Popularity:
Rat Pack
Overview: In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-11
Popularity:
No Time at All
Overview: An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-13
Popularity:
That's Entertainment!
Overview: Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Genres: Documentary Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
Popularity:
Norwood
Overview: A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-24
Popularity:
Take It Big
Overview: Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
Popularity:
Wrongorilla
Overview: Jack Haley joins the circus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
Popularity:
Make Mine Laughs
Overview: A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-03
Popularity:
Success
Overview: Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ballplayer, but his eyesight keeps getting him into trouble. Elmer also needs a new pair of glasses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-30
Popularity:
The Dark Side of the Rainbow
Overview: The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone than the original film.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-01
Popularity:
Vacation in Reno
Overview: A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-10
Popularity:
Redheads on Parade
Overview: A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
Popularity:
New York, New York
Overview: An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-21
Popularity:
She Had to Eat
Overview: An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
Popularity:
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
Overview: A look into how L. Frank Baum's classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of all time including archival interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and rare musical outtakes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-23
Popularity:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Overview: Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-20
Popularity:
Breakdowns of 1942
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Overview: A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
Popularity:
The Dark Side of Oz
Overview: Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-15
Popularity:
Lynch/Oz
Overview: Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-15
Popularity: