All Posts Tagged With: "bert wheeler"

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Cockeyed Cavaliers (1935 – RKO)

Next showing: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:45 PM Eastern Turner Classic Movies Runtime:  72 Minutes With Dorothy Lee, Noah Berry Sr., Thelma Todd. Director: Mark Sandrich Many critics (including Leonard Maltin) and fans alike consider this to be W & W’s greatest movie. While it’s hard to pick favorites, this is certainly among the best. [...]

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January 2009 Update – The Cowboy Quarterback 1/30/2009

Hi folks!  Just a quick note to let you know that in honor of Superbowl Weekend,  Turner Classic Movies will be running football movies *all day* on Friday, January 30th – including a repeat performance of  The Cowboy Quarterback at 3:45PM Eastern time.  This 1939 Warner Brothers picture features Bert Wheeler, in his first solo [...]

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The Cowboy Quarterback (1939 – Warner Bros)

Bert Wheeler’s first movie since the death of Robert Woolsey and his last film as a leading man. It is best remembered for his comic vocal performance of “Mother MacCree” with Eddie Foy Jr., another old vaudevillian and a personal friend of Wheeler. Overall, the film isn’t the best example of Wheeler’s work, but it [...]

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