comedy films

"Provides instructions for how to make your own comedy movie"--Provided by publisher.

Spotlights four popular comedians and discusses their roles in the renaissance of the comedy film.

Examines the personal lives, careers, and films of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Danny Kaye, and other great movie comedians.

Discusses comedy in movies and television and "funny men" such as Chaplin, Keaton, the Hardys, Marx brothers, Fields, Jerry Lewis, and Jaques Tati.

Discusses such comedy teams as Burns and Allen, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis, Amos 'n' Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly, Smith and Dale, and others.

Traces this history of American comedy films, surveying performances by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, the Coen brothers, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, and other actors and related individuals.