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Six of a Kind

By movieMoll on May 28, 2009

These comic luminaries — Charles Ruggles, Mary Boyland, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Geroge Burns and Gracie Allen — add up to a winning hand in “Six of a Kind. Mild-mannered bank worker Pinky Whinney (Ruggles) and his wife Flora (Boland) plan a cross-country car trip to California. George and Gracie answer an ad placed by [...]

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Six of a Kind

By GroovyMovieGuy on May 28, 2009

Flora Whinney (Mary Boyland) advertises for a couple to share expenses on a cross-country automobile trip with her and her husband, Pinky Whinney (Charles Ruggles). They get George Edwards (George Burns) and Gracie De Vore (Gracie Allen), an unmarried couple, that put a kink into just about every mile of the journey.
Along the way, they [...]

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You’re Telling Me

By GroovyMovieGuy on April 18, 2009

Not one of his zaniest films, “You’re Telling Me” is still packed with classic W.C. Fields humor. A master of physical comedy, Fields battles a tangle of drapery cords at home and on the golf course, unusual clubs, a sticky pie, flying then sticking papers and a caddy with squeaky shoes.
Fields’ character meets a princess [...]

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