Red Skelton on TCM
Ann Rutherford, Red Skelton, Virginia Grey in Whistling in the Dark. Photo: Courtesy Turner Classic Movies
Red Skelton’s "Summer Under the Stars" day is Wednesday, Aug. 19.
Turner Classic Movies will show fifteen Red Skelton films, most of which I’ve never seen. With perhaps one or two exceptions, they’ve been on TCM a number of times — there are no premieres in the list — but Skelton, for some inexplicable reason, remains one of the few stars of the ’40s that I don’t know very well. (In fact, I’m totally unfamiliar with his television work.)
That’s strange, I admit, as I actually find him more likable (though not necessarily funnier) than the majority of film comedians then or now, and his [...]
by Andre Soares | August 14, 2009
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