Frank Tashlin

There once was a happy little possum, the happiest animal in the entire forest, who always wore a great big smile. This jolly creature was content simply to hang by his tail from a tree until he was discovered by a group of picnickers. Mistaking the possum's upside-down smile for a frown, the people resolve to rescue him ― and they turn the little possum's world topsy-turvy. Strikingly illustrated in black-and-white, this memorable satire of cultural...

In a hilarious twist on the timeless fairy tale, the irrepressible Jerry Lewis plays the title role of CINDERFELLA – a hard-working and honest lad mistreated by his wicked stepmother (Judith Anderson) and his two boorish stepbrothers (Henry Silva, Robert Hutton). But miracles do happen – especially when your Fairy Godfather is the one-and-only Ed Wynn! With a little – okay, a lot – of wizardry and magic, the wacky Wynn manages to transform...

Adman Rockwell P. Hunter must come up with a new idea to propel him one more rung up the corporate ladder in this satire on Madison Avenue, television and the cult of the movie star.

A slapstick comedy in which a hapless door-to-door saleswoman finds that she is a murder suspect.

A gangster hires a down-and-out press agent to make his blonde bimbo girlfriend into a singing star.

Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a Vegas elopement, Susan isn't so sure she wants to be the ex-Mrs....

Bumbling Jerome wants to be a doctor, but he is hopelessly squeamish, so he becomes an orderly at Whitestone Sanitarium. A one-man disaster area, Jerome triggers chaos every time he tried to lend a helping hand.

Dog walker Norman Phiffer is in love with Barbara Tuttle, an elevator operator in her parents' department store. Barbara's conniving mother, Phoebe disapproves of the young couple and is determined to break up her daughter's romance with the incompetent boob. With hidden ulterior motives, Phoebe hires Norman to work in her department store and despite the impossible requests of Mr. Quimby, the store manager; Norman manages to do an admirable job in...

A small-time con artist, nicknamed for his favorite candy, gets in over his head when he swindles a tough gangster out of some gambling profits. The Kid concocts a scheme to pay back the money by Christmas, by tricking his pals into dressing up as Santas and collecting money for a made-up charity.

The ghost and Mr. Chicken: After deciding to solve a murder mystery, a timid typesetter spends a fright-filled night in a haunted house. The reluctant astronaut: A small-town carnival worker who is deathly afraid of heights suddenly finds himself working for NASA and getting mixed up in an experimental flight. The shakiest gun in the West: After leaving the comfort of the East to bring modern dentistry to the West, a timid Pennsylvania dentist finds...