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The Ghost Breakers (1940)

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Musical Monday: Scared Stiff (1953)

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical:Scared Stiff (1953) – Musical #797 Studio:Paramount Pictures Director:George Marshall Starring:Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis,…

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Ghost Breakers #1 - Street & Smith, September 1948.

Cover art by Bob Powell.

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The Ghost Breakers, 1940

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Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Willie Best and Noble Johnson as the Zombie in The Ghost Breakers (1940), directed by George Marshall.  George was born in Chicago and had 188 director credits, from dozens of shorts 1916-19, his first feature in 1920, to two episodes of The Odd Couple in 1972.  George has two entries among my best 1,001 movies:  Destry Rides Again (1939 with James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich) and Murder He Says (with Fred MacMurray in the Bob Hope role).  George also made two of Bob Hope’s later, inferior comedies with Phyllis Diller, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number and Eight on the Lam, and the 1953 Ghost Breakers remake, Scared Stiff, with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

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When you’re a ghost nobody can talk to or else you’ll eat them, no one can correct your wrong movie quotes.

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“GHOST BREAKERS” - UNFAIR TO GHOSTS- You’ll Scare Yourself With Laughter; See BOB HOPE & PAULETTE GODDARD in Ghost Breakers at Voge Theater now!” A pair of sign holding skeletons outside the VOGE Theater in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Ghost Breakers #2 - Street & Smith, 1948. Cover art by Bob Powell.