Vaudeville, Painting, Clowning Around...
Thanks for the Video Nisaba You are a Doll.
Anyone who is interested in Red Skelton, old time entertainers, or anyone for that matter who has traditional values. If you are someone selling webcam photos or just trying to promote your band please don't ask for a friend request. I am perfectly glad to support other entertainers but unless your band is completely uncontroversial, I really do not want to add you to my friend list. Red Skelton believed heavily in traditional values and I do not think i would doing him justice if I created a fan site that did not support the same ideals.
My Top Friends ListI want all of you to know that with the exception of my two favorite Redheads, my top friends are placed aesthetically. Please forgive me for showing favoritism to Laine and Lucy but they were the lovely ladies who showed me a very warm welcome when I first created this page. Even in that placement there is aesthetic placement as they are facing each other which helps maintain focus on the center. This is coupled with the fact that I could never choose between the two for the top spot (Hey I am honest). But I especially want the rest of you that the list is not arranged in order of value and importance. You are all equally great friends and I have placed you in an order that appeals to my artistic eye. I would like to consider my top friends as a compilation of good friends rather than a ranking. I love all you folks and I want nothing but good things for all of you.
As a Composer:Red Skelton: A Royal Command Performance (1984) (TV)Made in Paris (1966) (song "My True Love")
As a Performer1. Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976) (TV) (performer: "The Moving Finger Writes", "Have a Hap-Hap-Happy New Year", "Turn Back the Year", "What A Wonderful World We Live In")
2. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) (performer: "Three Little Words")
3. Lovely to Look at (1952) (performer: "Lafayette")
4. Texas Carnival (1951) (performer: "The Carnie's Pitch")
5. Moments in Music (1950) (performer: "Baby, It's Cold Outside")
6. Three Little Words (1950) (performer: "My Sunny Tennessee", "So Long! Oo-Long (How Long You Gonna Be Gone?)", "Nevertheless") ("Thinking of You", "Three Little Words")
7. Neptune's Daughter (1949) (performer: "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "I Love Those Men")
8. The Show-Off (1946) (performer: "I've Got You Under My Skin") ("I've Got You Under My Skin")
9. Bathing Beauty (1944) (performer: "I'll Take the High Note" (1943)) ("Magic is the Moonlight (Te quiero juste)" (1929), "Waltz of the Flowers" from "The Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a" (1891-2), "Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)" from "Lohengrin" (1850))
10. Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) (performer: "I Love an Esquire Girl" (1943), "Ladies of the Bath" (1943), "Madame, I Like Your Crepe Suzettes" (1943), "Friendship" (1939))
11. I Dood It (1943) ("Star Eyes")
... aka By Hook or by Crook (UK)
12. Whistling in Dixie (1942) ("(I Wish I Was in) Dixie's Land" (1860), "Yankee Doodle" (ca. 1755))
13. Panama Hattie (1942) (performer: "Fresh as a Daisy" (1940), "Good Neighbors" (1942))
14. Ship Ahoy (1942) (performer: "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (1932), "(I Like New York in Spring) How About You?" (1941)) ("The Last Call for Love" (1942), "I'll take Tallulah" (1942), "Poor You" (1942))
15. Lady Be Good (1941) (performer: "Oh ! Lady Be Good" (1924), "Oh ! Lady Be Good" (1924))
Here is my Filmography* Having Wonderful Time (1938) * Seeing Red (1939) (short subject) * Flight Command (1940) * The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) * Whistling in the Dark (1941) * Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) * Lady Be Good (1941) * Ship Ahoy (1942) * Maisie Gets Her Man (1942) * Panama Hattie (1942) * Whistling in Dixie (1942) * DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) * Thousands Cheer (1943) * I Dood It (1943) * Whistling in Brooklyn (1943) * Radio Bugs (1944) (short subject) (voice) * Bathing Beauty (1944) * The Luckiest Guy in the World (1946) (short subject) (voice) * Ziegfeld Follies (1946) * The Show-Off (1946) * Merton of the Movies (1947) * The Fuller Brush Man (1948) * A Southern Yankee (1948) * Neptune's Daughter (1949) * The Yellow Cab Man (1950) * Three Little Words (1950) * Duchess of Idaho (1950) (cameo) * The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) (cameo) * Watch the Birdie (1950) * Excuse My Dust (1951) * Texas Carnival (1951) * Lovely to Look At (1952) * The Clown (1953) * Half a Hero (1953) * The Great Diamond Robbery (1953) * Hollywood Goes to War (1954) (short subject) * Susan Slept Here (1954) (cameo) * Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) * Public Pigeon No. One (1957) * Ocean's Eleven (1960) * Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
"The Red Skelton Show" (1951-1971)"The Red Skelton Chevy Special" (1959)"Freddy the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner" (1981)"Red Skelton: A Royal Command Peformance" (1984)
A RED SKELTON IN YOUR CLOSET (1965)Red Skelton's Favorite Ghost Stories (1968)Gertrude & Heathcliffe (1974)Old Whitey (1984)The Ventriloquist (1984)The Great Lazerus (1986)
Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Charlie McCarthy and his human puppet Edgar Bergen, Laine (For her good heart and love of performers), Lucy for being such a sweetheart and putting situational comedies on the map...