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The Show-Off: Directed by Harry Beaumont. With Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell, Marjorie Main, Virginia O'Brien. Lowly clerk Aubrey Piper has a fondness for exaggerating about himself to impress people.
- (246)
- Comedy, Romance
- Harry Beaumont
- 1946-12
The camera then pans down to street level. George Kelly directed the initial Broadway run of his play, which starred Louis John Bartels and Helen Lowell. Kelly's play was first filmed by Paramount in 1926 as The Show Off, with Malcolm St. Clair directing and Ford Sterling and
- Harry Beaumont, Bert Spurlin
- Red Skelton
Synopsis. While sailing on an excursion boat, J. Aubrey Piper, a clerk at the Mid-Atlantic Railroad Company, saves a drunken passenger from drowning and impresses pretty Amy Fisher with his bravery. After the rescue, Aubrey overhears Amy tell the police the address of her father's Newark, New Jersey realty company, and later shows up there ...
- Charles F. Riesner, Sandy Roth
- Spencer Tracy
Feb 25, 2023 · The Show-Off is a 1925 American silent film comedy produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, based on the play of the same name...
- 81 min
- 19.3K
- The Vintage Audio Life
The Show-Off is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont based on the play of the same name by George Kelly. It stars Red Skelton and Marilyn Maxwell . [2] It was previously filmed in 1926 as The Show-Off starring Ford Sterling , Lois Wilson and Louise Brooks and in 1934 as The Show-Off with Spencer Tracy and Madge Evans .
The Show-Off is a 1924 stage play by George Kelly about a working-class North Philadelphian family's reluctance to accept their daughter's suitor Aubrey Piper, an overly confident Socialist buffoon. The play has been revived five times on Broadway and adapted for film four times; it is Kelly's most frequently produced play.
The Show-Off 1946 1h 23m Comedy List Reviews 17% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Aubrey Piper (Red Skelton) is a big-talking blowhard with huge ambitions and very little smarts.
- Comedy
