Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies

ISBN-10: 1452904987
ISBN-13: 9781452904986
Category: Comedy films
Pages: 270
Language: English
Published: 2000
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Author: Alan S. Dale

Description

They both have battle - axe mothers who accompany Haines to O'Neil's opening night in a Follieslike show . Haines and his mother are shocked by O'Neil's scanty costume and then bitterly disgusted when she doesn't come home that night .

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