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HOLLYWOOD: THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER

Air Date/Released Sunday, May 16, 1982
Station/Studio ABC / David L. Wolper Prods.
Host/Star Burt Reynolds
Featuring Miscellaneous Appearances

The Motion Picture Association of America produced this entertaining compilation of comedy clips from movies produced in Hollywood, from the silent era to present-day (1982), to celebrate the Bicentennial of Los Angeles. Features clips of the Stooges (and Ted Healy) from THE BIG IDEA (1934), THREE LITTLE BEERS (1935), and during the opening credits a brief SCREEN SNAPSHOTS clip of the boys clowning around with the 1935 Three Stooges hand puppets. The Stooges' segment is narrated by Dom DeLuise.


Cast (Hosts): Burt Reynolds, Carol Burnett, Dom DeLuise, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor, Loni Anderson
Cast (archive footage): Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Jerry Howard, Ted Healy, Bonnie Bonnell, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, W. C. Fields, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Jimmy Durante, Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Cleavon Little, Teri Garr, Marty Feldman, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Sid Caesar, Harvey Korman, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Jackie Cooper, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Darla Hood, Billy 'Buckwheat' Thomas, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Robert Blake, Edgar Bergen, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Margaret Dumont, Billy Gilbert, Dyan Cannon, Sally Field, Jill Clayburgh, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Doris Day, Leslie Caron, Ann Bancroft, Peter Sellers, Jack Warden, Phil Silvers, Danny Kaye, Mildred Natwick, Glynis Johns, Red Skelton, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Bill Murray, Spencer Tracy, Mack Sennett, Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand, The Keystone Kops, Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin, Jackie Coogan, Mae West, Shirley Ross, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr., Jane Russell, Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Lucille Ball, Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, Debbie Reynolds, James Garner, Barbra Streisand, Walter Pidgeon, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Louise Lasser

Crew: Leonard Maltin (Film Consultant), Jack Haley Jr. (Producer, Director, Writer), David L. Wolper (Executive Producer), Michael A. Bloom (Associate Producer)
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