Peggy Mondo

The Music Man -- It's the Music Man, the screen version of one of Broadway's all-time blockbusters, a skyburst of Americana as irresistible as 4th of July fireworks. Robert Preston and Shirley J

In this dizzy 1960s spoof, comic Morey Amsterdam ("The Dick Van Dyke Show") stars as a grill chef named Charlie Yuckapuck who's mistaken for a fugitive cosmonaut by agents of a sinister foreign nation called Klavashia. After getting fired and starting work in a friend's bookstore, Yuckapuck becomes the center of an intense espionage operation. Further complicating things, a pair of thieves plan to go through the bookstore to break into a bank.

When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, cant do anything right. The big TV show is getting closer, and Stanley gets worse all the time.

When penniless klutz Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis) falls in love with department-store heiress Barbara Tuttle (Jill St. John), the girl's snooty mother (Agnes Moorehead) tries to derail the romance by giving him ridiculous and demeaning tasks around the store. Hilarity ensues as Norman proves he's the right man for the girl, even as he leaves a path of retail wreckage in his wake. Ray Walston co-stars in this comedy from director Frank Tashlin.