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atomic-chronoscaph · 7 months

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Red Skelton as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Maila Nurmi as Vampira - The Red Skelton Show (1954)

#vampira #maila nurmi #red skelton #horror hosts #50s tv shows #sketch comedy #50s variety shows #clem kadiddlehopper #the red skelton show #CBS #1950s #1954 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 10 months

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Vincent Price and Boris Karloff - The Red Skelton Hour; He Who Steals My Robot Steals Trash (1967)

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lucylied · 2 years

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Shall we escape?

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justbusterkeaton · 5 months

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Compilation Of Nice Quotes About Buster 💗

Music: The Swan from Carnival Of Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns

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hotvintagepoll · 4 months

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Propaganda

Red Skelton (DuBarry Was a Lady, Bathing Beauty)—no propaganda submitted

Burt Lancaster (The Rain Maker, The Unforgiven)—doesn't the picture do all the talking? as if that wasn't enough he was a big supporter of civil rights, and campaigned against aids in support of his friend rock hudson :') i just think social engagement is sexy :')

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[propaganda photos submitted under the cut]

#burt lancaster #red skelton #classic hollywood #classic cinema #fuck that old man #hotvintagepoll #round 1

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oldshowbiz · 2 months

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1965.

Freddie the Freeloader meets Herman Munster.

#clowns #Red Skelton #telop #the munsters #television logos

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rhetthammersmithhorror · 7 months

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The Red Skelton Hour ✦ S3.E40 ✦ Dial 'B' for Brush — with Vampira, Bela Lugosi, & Lon Chaney, Jr. ✦ (1954)

#Red Skelton #Maila Nurmi #Vampira #horror host #Lon Chaney Jr #Bela Lugosi #horror icon #horror #comedy horror #hammersmith horror

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elderscrollsconceptart · 1 month

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"Boneweaver"

Art for The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Art by Nuare Studio

#nuare #nuare studio #the elder scrolls #art #concept art #tes #the elder scrolls legends #khajiit #necromancer #red skelton #horror #fantasy #undead #magicka

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coolthingsguyslike · 1 year

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#Harpo Marx #Jayne Mansfield #Frank Sinatra #Red Skelton

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cuzikan · 8 days

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RED SKELTON'S RECIPE FOR THE PERFECT MARRIAGE

1. Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage, good food and companionship. She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays.

2. We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas.

3. I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

4. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said. So I suggested the kitchen.

5. We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

6. She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets, and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

7. My wife told me the car wasn't running well because there was water in the carburetor. I asked where the car was. She told me, "In the lake."

8. She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off.

9. She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" The driver said, "No, jump in!".

10. Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce.

11. I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was 'Always'.

12. I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her.

13. The last fight was my fault though. My wife asked, "What's on the TV?"

I said, "Dust!".

Can't you just hear him say all of these?

I love it. These were the good old days when humor didn't have to start with a four letter word or political. It was just clean and simple fun. And he always ended his programs with the words, "And May God Bless"with a big smile on his face.

#wholesome #funny #red skelton

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peterlorrefanpage · 1 month

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Peter Lorre in "Rapid Growth," The Red Skelton Show, 1959

Peter Lorre as "Mad Scientist" and Peter Mamakos as Sandor:

With Red Skelton:

"Rapid Growth" aired on May 12, 1959.

#peter lorre #red skelton #lost media #peter lorre television #peter lorre comedy

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 11 months

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Bringing this back…

I love these guys…

Vincent Price and Boris Karloff - Red Skelton Hour; He Who Steals My Robot Steals Trash

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citizenscreen · 3 months

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Eleanor Roosevelt at FDR’s Birthday Ball at the Statler Hotel in Washington DC, with Red Skelton, William O. Douglas, Lucille Ball, John Garfield, Maria Montez and others January, 1944.

#eleanor roosevelt #fdr #john garfield #lucille ball #red skelton #maria montez

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todaysdocument · 3 months

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Eleanor Roosevelt with Red Skelton, William Douglas, Lucille Ball, and John Garfield

Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain PhotographsSeries: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs

This black and white photograph shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt cutting into a large, two-tier birthday cake. The words “Happy Birthday” are spelled out by a cake topper. Many people in evening clothes of the 1940s surround the First Lady. Prominent among the group are comedian Red Skelton, actress Lucille Ball, and actor John Garfield.

#archivesgov #1940s #January 30 #1944 #eleanor roosevelt #lucille ball #red skelton #john garfield #birthday party

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filmicgreyscale · 7 months

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Conrad Veidt, Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey, and Rags Ragland in Whistling in the Dark (1941)

#conrad veidt #red skelton #ann rutherford #virginia grey #rags ragland #whistling in the dark

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oldshowbiz · 2 months

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To the public Red Skelton was the God and country comedian. He recorded a best-selling version of the Pledge of Allegiance and told reporters that he read the bible every night before going to bed. His friends and colleagues say it was just an act to ingratiate himself to the public.

Television producer George Schlatter worked on The Judy Garland Show at CBS Television City, just one soundstage over from The Red Skelton Show. Schlatter says, “Red Skelton was a phony with all his God bullshit. He ended every show saying, ‘God Bless.’ Then you realize that his dress rehearsal was the filthiest event in town. They did the dirtiest dress rehearsal and then he would go on and do this, ‘God Bless,’ and the country and the flag and all this shit. He was a dirty old man.”

According to the FBI, Skelton possessed one of the largest collections of pornography in Hollywood. A Bureau memo from the 1940s said that “during the course of an investigation of a purported ring of obscene motion picture operators in Hollywood, information was received that the best known customers for obscene film in Hollywood were Red Skelton, Lou Costello, and George Raft.”

The contradiction between his public front and his personal life was the stuff of tabloid legend.

“Red’s constant drinking when he had his CBS radio show was the whisper of the microphone colony,” reported the trashy magazine Confidential. “Often his hands would be shaking so badly he could hardly get into his clothes to begin the show.” The tabloid claimed Skelton regularly “terrifies wife and kids with loaded pistols.”

Skelton was often criticized for laughing at his own jokes or breaking up in the middle of a scene. It was an ancient stage trick. Skelton knew that if you lost it on camera, it often made the audience laugh harder. It was a gimmick despised by fellow comedians who saw right through it.

“Dreadful,” said Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame. “Just dreadful. I love his talent but I hate … when he does that deliberate and undeliberate breaking up. In my opinion this is the worst possible thing any comedian can do – the worst. And he even lets some of his untalented guests do it. Dreadful.”

Many viewers felt the same. Patty Valentine of Cincinnati wrote, “There is only one person laughing at him and that is himself. He thinks he is funny but no one else does.”

By 1964 the program hadn’t changed much since its first episode back in 1950. The show got strong ratings, but the demographics were far too old for the sponsor’s liking. In an attempt to court the youth market, Van Bernard Productions, Skelton’s production company, negotiated an exclusive deal with Sir Lew Grade in the UK to provide British Invasion rock groups for the show. Changing its name to The Red Skelton Hour, the program presented The Kinks singing “Got Love If You Want It,” Manfred Mann doing “Do Wah Diddy Diddy,” The Hollies performing “Look Through Any Window,” and The Animals playing “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.”

Skelton introduced many British Invasion groups to Middle America for the very first time. But he promised his elderly demographic that he didn’t fully approve, always cracking jokes about their hair and fashion sense.

#red skelton

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