#joe cook

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Joe Cook versus the Sponsor

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Photographer Joe Cook

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Joe Cook

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Dust on Trial by Shame from the album Songs Of Praise - Directed by Bison

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Rain or Shine, 1930 directed by Frank Capra

Rain or Shine is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Frank Capra and starring Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda and Joan Peers. In the on-screen credits, Fazenda and Peers are shown side by side, with Fazenda first. In fact Peers plays the heroine. Fazenda appears as a Cooch dancer in what might be called a cameo role today. The film was adapted from a hit Broadway musical of the same name and was…

Rain or Shine, 1930 directed by Frank Capra

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Dave Chasen, Joe Cook, and Joe Howard in Rain or Shine (1930). All three were in the original stage production. Dave was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and had three more credits after this, his first, in 1935 and 36. Dave started in entertainment as a vaudeville stooge. After his film career he opened a Hollywood restaurant, Chasen's, where Ronald Reagan proposed to Nancy in 1952. Carol Burnett took her weekly tv guests there after taping each show. It was Alfred Hitchcock's favorite restaurant. It started as a barbeque shack, but he went upscale in Beverly Hills in 1940. The restaurant closed in 1995.

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Joe Cook as Smiley Johnson, reprising his stage role, works Tom Howard as Amos K Shrewsberry in a scene from Rain or Shine (1930).

Tom was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, and had 26 acting credits from a 1929 short to a 1936 short. All his other credits were shorts except for Get That Venus in 1933.