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Title: ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING Year: 1949 Rating: **** |
In the frame story of the first television star Milton Berle's 1949 big screen debut ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING, a young comic watches Milton as fictional-self Kipling "Kip" Cooper filming his own successful TV-variety show...
Which is supposed to be what Berle's Kip worked so hard to perfect: a vaudeville-trained standup comedian's hyperactive struggle to reach the point of being, basically, TV's beloved Milton Berle...
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Credits for ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING
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Yet ironically, this supposed creative peak is worse than the deliberately low-rent gigs leading up: ranging from a heckling men's club violently preferring strippers to comics, or lying about a lucrative musical role to his girlfriend...
And despite the second-billing and poster covers, it's not Virginia Mayo... her part's relatively peripheral as the gold-digging wife of a comic superstar that Kip... who makes a sparse living imitating more famous comedians... ultimately aspires to: until taking over hospitalized Bert Lahr's Broadway Show, where leggy bombshell Mayo's both wife and on-stage co-star, now edging towards a spicy romance with Kip...
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Milton Berle with Virginia Mayo and Bert Lahr in Always Leave Them Laughing |
Meanwhile his genuine love-interest (initially more engaged in friendship than romance) is the strongest character aboard in Ruth Roman's Fay Washburn... along with Lloyd Gough's caustic yet dependable agent, she remains faithful to a zig-zagging career where Berle desperately tries to, as the title goes, ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING: a propaganda programmer that both overreaches and entertains like the fervent entertainer being depicted...
And yet, despite TV's biggest star financially flopping on the big screen, a vigorous, determined, always-moving Milton Berle proves he can try being funny like no one else, keeping busy enough so not to rest on his laurels: which would ironically happen for the rest of his hit-and-miss (real life) career.
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Milton Berle and genuine second-star Ruth Roman in Always Leave Them Laughing
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Milton Berle and Max Showalter in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle with Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle as Iris Adrian in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle in blackface from Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle with Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle and Ruth Roman in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle with Ruth Roman in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Lloyd Gough as the agent from Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle with Ruth Roman in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle with Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle with Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Ruth Roman with Milton Berle in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle and Ruth Roman in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle and Ruth Roman in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Milton Berle and Ruth Roman in Always Leave Them Laughing with Lloyd Gough |
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Alan Hale and Grace Hayes with Milton Berle in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Bert Lahr with Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Bert Lahr with Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Bert Lahr with Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Ruth Roman in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Ruth Roman with Milton Berle in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Max Showalter with Milton Berle in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Virginia Mayo in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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Virginia Mayo and Milton Berle in Always Leave Them Laughing |
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