Buddy Hackett
1924 - 2003Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
Roger Allers, Ruben A. Aquino
Find out how the spectacular music inspired the animation, and learn more about the development of the characters—such as how Ursula ended up being a big octopus—and how the memorable song "Part of Your World" almost got cut from the film.
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
The Mama Cass Television Program
Sid Smith
Cass Elliot, Barbara Bain
"Mama" Cass Elliott of 1960s vocal group The Mamas and the Papas stars in this television variety special, performing comic sketches with Buddy Hackett and other Hollywood stars and singing solo versions of hit songs such as "California Dreamin'." Filmed in 1969 as a pilot for a series that never came to pass, this groovy, fun-filled show also features performances from other '60s music icons: Joni Mitchell, Mary Travers and John Sebastian.
The Mama Cass Television Program
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Ronnie Johnson
Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
The Little Mermaid
Ron Clements, John Musker
Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright
This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.
The Little Mermaid
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Stanley Kramer
Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Saturday Night Swing Club
Lloyd French
Leith Stevens, Buddy Hackett
Leith Stevens leads his orchestra in a nice assortment of standards in a variety of musical styles, including Dixieland and swing. Mr. Stevens was a popular orchestra leader of the era who later became a musical director for an assortment of television shows and his facility with more than one style of music, so important for his later career, is much in evidence here.
Saturday Night Swing Club
Scrooged
Richard Donner
Bill Murray, Karen Allen
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing staff member Eliot Loudermilk on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Scrooged
Jack Frost
Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
Buddy Hackett, Robert Morse
Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him. His request is granted, but only on the condition that by the Spring he has a house, a bag of gold, a horse and a wife. But Jack finds that life as a human is more complicated than he thought.
Jack Frost
God's Little Acre
Anthony Mann
Robert Ryan, Jack Lord
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
God's Little Acre
