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Mad Monster Party? (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song, Credits Not a bad title tune at all (by Maury Laws and director Jules Bass) and grippy vocal by Ethel Ennis but most of all an impressive opening revue of the copyrighted "Animagic" characters and settings, from the script by Mad Magazine founder Jack Kurtzman and the Rankin/Bass production team, Mad Monster Party?, 1967.
Mad Monster Party? (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Open, The Secret Of Destruction! His voice alone bringing far more class than required, Boris Karloff as Baron Frankenstein opens the Rankin/Bass (the team behind the I>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1964 TV special) comic-horror theatrical feature from Avco Embassy, Mad Monster Party?, 1967, shot in Japan with “Animagic” stop-motion technology.
Mad Monster Party? (1967) -- (Movie Clip) You Are A Masterpiece madmonsterparty_yourareamasterpiece_FCExposition as Baron Frankenstein (modeled-on and voiced by Boris Karloff) explains his plans to aide Francesca (Gale Garnett’s voice), in the Rankin/Bass “Animagic” feature Mad Monster Party?, 1967, written by Mad Magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman, shot in Japan by Tad Mochinaga.
Mad Monster Party? (1967) -- (Movie Clip) One Happy Family Phyllis Diller is both the voice and the basis for the character design for the monster’s bride, as Boris Karloff is host Baron Frankenstein, Gale Garnett is Francesca, and Alan Swift everybody else, gathering for the first time in the Rankin/Bass “Animagic” feature, shot by Tad Mochinaga at MOM Productions, Tokyo, Mad Monster Party?, 1967.
Mad Monster Party? (1967) -- (Movie Clip) He Seemed Nervous Alan Swift doing Jimmy Stewart for the voice of nerdy nephew Felix, visiting Baron Frankenstein (Boris Karloff) and assistant Francesca (Gale Garnett) at his Caribbean island in the Rankin/Bass “Animagic” animated monster spoof Mad Monster Party?, 1967.
Madame X (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Too Good for You Jacqueline (Ruth Chatterton) engages in cynical chat with Laroque (Ullrich Haupt), the Alsatian hustler who will become her victim, in the 1929 version of Madame X, directed by Lionel Barrymore.
Madame X (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Clean, Honest Things Jacqueline (Ruth Chatterton), on her sojourn in China, rejects the advances of Naval officer Darrell (Carroll Nye) in Madame X, 1929, directed by Lionel Barrymore, from Alexandre Bisson's play.
Madame X (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening credit sequence for the first talkie-version of Madame X, 1929, directed by Lionel Barrymore, from the play by Alexandre Bisson, starring Ruth Chatterton and Lewis Stone.
Carolina Blues (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Beebe Band leader Kay Kyser's intro, surprised to see Ann Miller replacing his usual vocalist, song by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, named for the columnist and bon vivant Lucius Beebe, dancer Harold Nicholas stealing it, with singing Layson Brothers and hoofing Four Steps, in Carolina Blues, 1944.

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