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Slapstick films are comedy films where physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, practical jokes, mistakes, are highlighted over dialogue, plot and character development. The physical comedy in these films contains a cartoonish style of violence that is predominantly harmless and goofy in tone.
A boy is a human male child or young man.
A swan is a bird of the genus Cygnus.
Rock Around the Clock is the title of a 1956 musical film that featured Bill Haley and His Comets along with Alan Freed, the Platters, Tony Martinez and His Band and Freddie Bell and His Bellboys. It was produced by B-movie king Sam Katzman and directed by Fred F. Sears.
A bellhop or hotel porter (international) is a hotel porter, who helps patrons with their luggage while checking in or out. Bellhops often wear a uniform, like certain other page boys or doormen. This occupation is also called bellman and bellboy in North America.
Galen Grindle, better known as Johnny Ginger, was a pioneer of Detroit television.
Mark Herman is an English film director and screenwriter best known for writing and directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Annabel or Annabelle may refer to:
Freddie Bell and the Bellboys were an American vocal group, influential in the development of rock and roll in the 1950s.
Henry James "Harry" Fowler, MBE was an English actor in film and television. Over a career lasting more than sixty years, he made nearly 200 appearances on screen.
The Bell Boy is a 1918 American two-reel silent comedy film directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for the Comique film company.
A bell-boy hat or bellboy cap is a small round or oval brimless cap with a crown about 2–3 inches in height, resembling a squat can or drum. It is often worn as part of the uniform of a bellhop. The bell-boy hat is based on a 19th-century military drummer boy's cap. A bell-boy hat usually features a chinstrap, and is trimmed to match the rest of a bellhop's uniform.
Ferdinando Dominick Bello, known as Freddie Bell,, was an American musician, whose group, Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, were influential in the development of rock and roll in the 1950s. He was a prominent performer with the group on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued to perform in Las Vegas into his later years after the demise of the group.
Get Yourself a College Girl, also released as The Swinging Set, is a 1964 Metrocolor film comedy in the style of a beach party movie. The plot involves a college co-ed who tries to balance her time writing songs and dealing with her publisher who tries to pursue her. It was directed by Sidney Miller and written by Robert E. Kent, and filmed at Sun Valley, Idaho, United States.
William Benedict was an American actor, perhaps best known for playing "Whitey" in Monogram Pictures' The Bowery Boys series.
Blame It on the Bellboy is a 1992 British-American comedy film written and directed by Mark Herman, revolving around a case of mistaken identity of three individuals with similar-sounding surnames staying at the same hotel. Dudley Moore plays the role of Melvyn Orton in the film. The Bollywood film One Two Three is an uncredited remake of Blame It On The Bellboy.
Gloria Wood was an American singer and voice actress. Her rare voice was in the four-octave range. She was able to imitate other voices.
Roberta Linn is an American singer and entertainer. She is most associated with the Rat Pack and the Las Vegas Strip, where she was a regular performer with Freddie Bell and the Bellboys in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1949 to 1954, she sang with the Lawrence Welk group, "The Champagne Ladies".
