Bert Kalmar - Turner Classic Movies

Biography

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Throughout his Hollywood career, Bert Kalmar's musical talent was featured in a variety of Hollywood productions. Kalmar worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Animal Crackers" (1930), "Broad-Minded" (1931) and "Check and Double Check" (1930). He also contributed to "The Cuckoos" (1930), "The Kid From Spain" (1932) and "Top Speed" (1930). In th...

Filmography

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Confidential Agent (1945)

Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

From a story by

Ship Ahoy (1942)

Based on a Story by

Everybody Sing (1938)

The Life of the Party (1937)

Sing Me a Love Song (1937)

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Animal Crackers (1930) -- (Movie Clip) An Elephant In My Pajamas

Animal Crackers (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Hello, I Must Be Going

Biography

Throughout his Hollywood career, Bert Kalmar's musical talent was featured in a variety of Hollywood productions. Kalmar worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Animal Crackers" (1930), "Broad-Minded" (1931) and "Check and Double Check" (1930). He also contributed to "The Cuckoos" (1930), "The Kid From Spain" (1932) and "Top Speed" (1930). In the forties and the fifties, Kalmar devoted his time to various credits, such as "Ship Ahoy" (1942) starring Eleanor Powell and "Look For the Silver Lining" with June Haver (1949). Kalmar's music was most recently used in "Delivery Man" (2013). Kalmar passed away in September 1947 at the age of 63.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Confidential Agent (1945)

Writer (Feature Film)

Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

From a story by

Ship Ahoy (1942)

Based on a Story by

Everybody Sing (1938)

The Life of the Party (1937)

Sing Me a Love Song (1937)

Walking on Air (1936)

Bright Lights (1935)

Kentucky Kernels (1934)

Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)

Circus Clown (1934)

Story and Screenplay

Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)

Kentucky Kernels (1934)

Duck Soup (1933)

Horse Feathers (1932)

The Kid from Spain (1932)

Written for Screen by

Broadminded (1931)

Check and Double Check (1930)

Music (Feature Film)

Delivery Man (2013)

You Again (2010)

Whatever Works (2009)

Leatherheads (2008)

Lord of War (2005)

Wedding Crashers (2005)

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)

The Good Girl (2002)

The Green Mile (1999)

At First Sight (1999)

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Patch Adams (1998)

Breaking Up (1997)

Song ("Who'S Sorry Now?")

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

Sleepless In Seattle (1993)

Bye Bye Blues (1989)

Losin' It (1983)

Stardust Memories (1980)

All That Jazz (1979)

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

The Strip (1951)

Three Little Words (1950)

Wabash Avenue (1950)

Copacabana (1947)

A Night in Casablanca (1946)

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Where Did You Get That Girl? (1941)

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

Cocoanut Grove (1938)

Everybody Sing (1938)

Walking on Air (1936)

Bright Lights (1935)

Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)

Kentucky Kernels (1934)

Happiness Ahead (1934)

Duck Soup (1933)

Horse Feathers (1932)

The Kid from Spain (1932)

Check and Double Check (1930)

The Cuckoos (1930)

Top Speed (1930)

Animal Crackers (1930)

Music (Special)

From Broadway: Fosse (2002)

Life Events

Videos

Animal Crackers (1930) -- (Movie Clip) An Elephant In My Pajamas A segment of one of the more famous Groucho joke routines, as Captain Spaulding recounting his African adventures for hostess Margaret Dumont and pompous are connoisseur Chandler (Louis Sorin), Harpo and Chico entering as the professor and Signor Ravelli, in the Paramount adaptation of the Marx Brothers stage hit, Animal Crackers, 1930.

Animal Crackers (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Hello, I Must Be Going Just introduced by his secretary (and little brother) Zeppo Marx, Groucho takes the stage as Captain Spaulding, African explorer invited to dazzle the guests of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont), with the first song from the Marx Brothers' Broadway hit, by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar, in Animal Crackers, 1930.

Horse Feathers (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Against It! Just sworn in as the new college president, Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) states his position, with Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby's "I"m Against It," early in Horse Feathers, 1932.

Horse Feathers (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Everyone Says I Love You A singular moment in Marx Brothers movies, Groucho as Professor Wagstaff serenading Connie (Thelma Todd), who's trying to steal the football signals, in a canoe, with screen and song writers Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby's Everyone Says I Love You, in Horse Feathers, 1932.

Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Keep Romance Alive Some parody and invention in the opening from director Mark Sandrich (and writers Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Edward Kaufman), plus RKO ingenues, but mostly a quick route to singing star Ruth Etting, with a tune also by Kalmar and Ruby, opening the Bert Wheeler-Robert Woolsey comedy team vehicle Hips, Hips, Hooray!, 1934.

Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Eat The Lipstick Fetching window model Daisy (Dorothy Lee) is getting no traction with cosmetic sales, with some neat shooting by director Mark Sandrich, when we meet stars Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey (“Dr. Dudley” and sidekick) stealing her audience, early in RKO’s Hips, Hips, Hooray!, 1934.

Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Meet That Man And Merge Shady lipstick salesmen Dr. Dudley and Andy (the RKO comedy team, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) have hijacked an office hoping they, with ally Daisy (Dorothy Lee), can trick her better-financed boss (Thelma Todd as Miss Frisby) into a merger, in Hips, Hips, Hooray!, 1934.

Kentucky Kernels (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing But Nets George Stevens directs this unusually warm opening to a comedy-team formula picture, Paul Page as a rich guy ending it all, then the partners, dreamy Bert Wheeler and grouchy Bert Wheeler, passively fishing, in RKO's Kentucky Kernels, 1934.

Kentucky Kernels (1934) -- (Movie Clip) One Silly Little Habit Comedy teammates Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey (specs and cigar, playing a magician) are adopting, from Margaret Dumont, an orphan, for the depressed rich guy they've befriended, and it's troublesome Spanky McFarland, so they meet a cop (Edgar Dearing) too, early in Kentucky Kernels, 1934.

Kentucky Kernels (1934) -- (Movie Clip) One Little Kiss Safe to say they're milking this tune by screenwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, the last four of six settings, the servant chorus, then Spanky, then Robert Woolsey, last Bert Wheeler with Mary Carlisle, in the Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle Kentucky Kernels, 1934.

Duck Soup (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Where's My Stradivarius? Now at war with nearby Sylvania, Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly leads his country (Freedonia) in battle, his brother Zeppo his assistant, then his other brother Chico as the double-dealing Chicolini, his secretary of war, for the moment, in Duck Soup, 1933.

Duck Soup (1933) -- (Movie Clip) A Rufus Over Your Head Now head of state in Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) gets a lift (from brother Harpo) to the tea party hosted by the widow Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), who is financing his government, and bamboozles foreign rival Trentino (Louis Calhern), in Duck Soup, 1933.

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