dir: Jack Haley, Jr.
WHAT'S ENTERTAINMENT?
MAD #175, June 1975
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Mort Drucker
A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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WHAT'S ENTERTAINMENT?
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! (1974)
dir: Jack Haley, Jr.
WHAT'S ENTERTAINMENT?
MAD #175, June 1975
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Mort Drucker
Made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of MGM with “best of”cclips from their heyday and the people who starred in them introducing them. It begins with a clip from Singin' in the Rain. Phil Silvers and Red Skelton weren't known for MGM musical so I'm not sure why they're here, except that they're part of old Hollywood.
The first panel is from Show Boat with caricatures of Howard Keel. Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Joe E. Brown. In the middle are Clark Gable, Jimmy Durante, Myrna Loy and William Powell of the Thin Man movies, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney of the Andy Hardy movies, and Joan Crawford. The poodle reference was to Thin Man's Asta.
They don't mention that Judy Garland was fed diet pills by MGM, which led to her overdosing in her forties. Sinatra was a teen idol before disappearing for a few years and coming back bigger with alleged mob connections.
In the middle panel is Peter Lawford and June Allyson in Good News.
dir: Jack Haley, Jr.
WHAT'S ENTERTAINMENT?
MAD #175, June 1975
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Mort Drucker
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1) Red Skelton starred in a bunch of musical comedies in the forties and fifties including for MGM.
ReplyDelete2) Phil Silvers, before Bilko, used to be comedy relief in musicals albeit for Columbia. (He described the role as Blinky, the guy who at the next-to-last reel would say "I've got the stuff in the car.")
Neither was in That's Entertainment (except Skelton was in some banquet footage per IMDb.