Harry Ritz

Harry Ritz

Born: May 22, 1907
Died: March 29, 1986
in Newark, New Jersey, USA

Movies for Harry Ritz...

Beane's of Boston
Title: Beane's of Boston
Character: Mr. Beane
Released: May 5, 1979
Type: Movie
To keep from being fired by his father, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Mens and Ladies Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store. Pilot episode for a US remake of "Are You Being Served?"
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Title: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Character: Cleaning Woman
Released: July 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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Silent Movie
Title: Silent Movie
Character: Man in Tailor Shop
Released: June 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
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Joys
Title: Joys
Character: Self
Released: March 5, 1976
Type: Movie
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies thrown in Hope's pool!). Hope and the rapidly shrinking cast try to discover who is the mysterious killer known only as "Joys."
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Blazing Stewardesses
Title: Blazing Stewardesses
Character: Harry
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Those "naughty stewardesses" are at it again! But this time they’ve turned in their Mile High Club sky miles for a sexy, rousing, Old West-styled adventure on a dude ranch. Punchin’ cattle and breakin’ stallions are the last things on their minds as these lovely ladies earn their wings in a whole new way…blazing a trail straight to the bedroom.
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The Sound of Laughter
Title: The Sound of Laughter
Character: Harry - Hotel Manager
Released: December 17, 1963
Type: Movie
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Take It or Leave It
Title: Take It or Leave It
Character: Himself
Released: July 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Never a Dull Moment
Title: Never a Dull Moment
Character: The Three Funny Bunnies
Released: November 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
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Show-Business at War
Title: Show-Business at War
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Hi'ya, Chum
Title: Hi'ya, Chum
Character: Merry Madcap
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
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Behind the Eight Ball
Title: Behind the Eight Ball
Character: Harry Jester
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.
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Argentine Nights
Title: Argentine Nights
Character: Harry
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Harry Ritz - The Ritz Brothers
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Harrigan - a Ritz Brother
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: One of The Three Lackeys
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Straight, Place and Show
Title: Straight, Place and Show
Character: Harry Ritz
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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Kentucky Moonshine
Title: Kentucky Moonshine
Character: Harrigan - a Ritz Brother
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
Title: Ali Baba Goes to Town
Character: Himself
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
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Life Begins in College
Title: Life Begins in College
Character: Harry Ritz
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.
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You Can't Have Everything
Title: You Can't Have Everything
Character: Harry Ritz
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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On the Avenue
Title: On the Avenue
Character: Harry Ritz
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Himself
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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Hotel Anchovy
Title: Hotel Anchovy
Character: Harry, the manager
Released: April 12, 1934
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers cause chaos in a bankrupt hotel.