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Gypsy -- The life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee tells the bittersweet story about an aggressive stage mother as she vows to her daughters (Natalie Wood and Ann Jillian) into the star that she never was.

Set in Warsaw, Poland, during and after the German invasion of 1939, this comedy-drama mixed dedicated Nazis, ham actors, and earnest pilots and resistance fighters into a surprisingly (and, in 1942, uncomfortably) entertaining topical satire.

A serviceman and a starlet find love at the star-staffed serviceman's center.

It's a mad, mad, mad mad farcical return to the days of the Keystone Cop comedies, on an Ultra Panavision scale, in this star-studded extravaganza. A multitude of people have been given a clue by a dying man (Jimmy Durante) as to the location of $350,000 in stolen bank money that he has buried. They cannot come to an agreement to seek out the loot as a cooperative unit, so they set out separately in a mad race to get to it first. They do not know that the state police are on to them and are simply allowing the loot-seekers to lead them to the stolen bucks. The loot-chasers are ruthless, devious, crackpot and very often dimwitted in their frantic, hilarious race. Stanley Kramer took an intermission from socially conscious subjects to direct this riotous comedy. Photography by Ernest Laszlo.

On a winding desert highway, eight vacation-bound motorists share an experience that alters their plansand their lives! After a mysterious stranger divulges the location of a stolen fortune, they each speed off in a mind-bending, car-bashing race for the lootand the most side-splitting laughfest in history.

On a winding desert highway, eight vacation-bound motorists share an experience that alters their plansand their lives! After a mysterious stranger divulges the location of a stolen fortune, they each speed off in a mind-bending, car-bashing race for the lootand the most side-splitting laughfest in history.

This musical version of the life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee tells the bittersweet story about an aggressive stage mother and the effects of her devotion to her two young daughters (Natalie Wood, "West Side Story," and Ann Jillian, TV's "It's a Living"), as she vows to make each of them into the star that she never was. Great music and lyrics are provided by the team of Stephen Sondheim ("West Side Story," "Dick Tracy," "Sweet Charity") and Jule Styne ("Funny Girl").

The life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee tells the bittersweet story about an aggressive stage mother as she vows to her daughters (Natalie Wood and Ann Jillian) into the star that she never was.

The life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee tells the bittersweet story about an aggressive stage mother as she vows to her daughters (Natalie Wood and Ann Jillian) into the star that she never was.

Irving Brecher writes and directs this musical about aspiring songbird Blossom 'Bloss' Seeley (Betty Hutton), who gets her break in vaudeville. But along with fame and wealth comes a tumultuous relationship with her husband and performing partner, Benny Fields (Ralph Meeker). The film features "Dixie Dreams," "Jealous," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," "I Cried For You," "Rose Room" and "Smiles."

Comedy legend Fred Allen stars as flea circus owner Fred Floogle, who auctions off what he believes to be 5 ordinary chairs inherited from an uncle. Only after the sale does he learn that one chair was stuffed with $300,000 in cash. His quest to retrieve the loot leads to slapstick encounters with Jack Benny, Robert Benchley, Jerry Colonna and other comedy greats. The film is based on the same novel that inspired Mel Brooks' 1971 film.

A serviceman and a starlet find love at the star-staffed serviceman's center.