Ish Kabibble

Carolina Blues (1944)

Actors: Harry Babbitt (actor), Kay Kyser Band (actor), Lennie Bluett (actor), M.A. Bogue (actor), The Christianis (actor), The Four Dreamers (actor), The Four Step Brothers (actor), Howard Freeman (actor), Jesse Graves (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Si Jenks (actor), Elmer Jerome (actor), Kay Kyser (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor),

Plot: Band Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte has promised that he'll give a concert for defense plant workers. Due to the fact that his vocalist has quit to get married, the plant owner's daughter Julie sings instead. But Kay dislikes her idea of joining the band.

Keywords: 1940s, acrobat, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, b-movie, bandleader, big-band, big-city, blonde-stereotype, blues, chauffeur
Genres: Musical,
Taglines: SOMETHING NEW IN DIXIE FUN! RIGHT THIS WAY! for the GAY WAY...to MUSIC...MIRTH and M-M-MAIDS! 6 SWELL NEW SONG HITS! MUSICAL MAGIC FROM KAY TO Z! (original print ad - all caps) Carolina Blues will chase you Blues away! Your head will spin to those Kay Kyser Melodies! Your sides will split at those Victor Moore insanities! Your feet will tap to those legnificient Ann Miller dances!

Around the World (1943)

Actors: John Albright (actor), Jack Alfred (actor), Nils Althin (actor), Eugene Anderson Jr. (actor), Robert Armstrong (actor), Edward Astran (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Harry Babbitt (actor), Kay Kyser Band (actor), M.A. Bogue (actor), Walter Bonn (actor), Wally Brown (actor), Don Bryan (actor), Bruce Cameron (actor), Philip Ahn (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Music, War,
Taglines: THE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts!

Swing Fever (1943)

Actors: Murray Alper (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Harry Babbitt (actor), King Baggot (actor), Kay Kyser Band (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), William Bishop (actor), M.A. Bogue (actor), Curt Bois (actor), Jack Byron (actor), Wally Cassell (actor), George Chandler (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor),

Plot: Lowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary "evil eye" which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search of a Broadway publisher for a symphonietta he has written, and ends up crashing an audition at the Swing Publishing Company, where he meets torch singer Ginger Gray (Marilyn Maxwell) and her fiance and promoter, Waltzy Malone (William Gargan). Ginger accidently walks off with his music and he follows her to a gym where Waltzy's fighter, "Killer" Kennedy (Nat Pendleton), has just been kayoed by his sparring partner. Waltzy learns of Lowell's hypnotic power and believes that Kennedy can win the championship if Lowell uses his power against the champ. He arranges for Lowell to lead the band at the club where Ginger sings. The latter objects to the role she is to play in getting Lowell to use his "evil eye" but Waltzy persuades her to go along by telling Lowell that Kennedy is her brother and it means everything to her if he wins the fight. Lowell, after having Ginger turn down his marriage proposal, joins the Tank Corps. Waltzy is frantic and he has a phoney doctor tell Lowell he needs rest followed by attending a prize fight, and also tells him Ginger has accepted his proposal.

Keywords: 1940s, b-movie, bandleader, big-band, dancer, dancing, doctor, entertainer, female-singer, gambler
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Dance! Sing! It's So JOYOUS!

Playmates (1941)

Actors: Kay Kyser Band (actor), John Barrymore (actor), Leon Belasco (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), M.A. Bogue (actor), William Brandt (actor), Jack Carr (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Bill Chaney (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Ray Cooke (actor), Jerry Frank (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Harry Babbitt (actor),

Plot: Lulu Monahan ('Patsy Kelly' (qv)), the press agent for John Barrymore ('John Barrymore (I)' (qv)),is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser ('Kay Kyser' (qv)), plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident. Highlights are the singing of Ginny Simms and a rumba by Lupe Velez; lowlights already cited.

Keywords: actor, actor-reprises-previous-role, band, bandleader, bullfighter, charity, conspiracy, contract, critically-bashed, dream
Genres: Comedy, Musical,

Quotes:

Mrs. Penelope Pennypacker: [to John Barrymore] Do sit down.::Grandma Kyser: My, my! Have an accident?::John Barrymore: No, thanks. I just had one. [hollers as he sits down]::Mrs. Penelope Pennypacker: Oh, he must have sprained his back! I hope I have some liniments in the house!::Grandma Kyser: Have you ever tried rubbing alcohol?::John Barrymore: Not since prohibition.

Ish Kabibble: This suntan lotion is no good. I drank half the bottle and I'm still just as pale as ever.

Mr. Nelson Pennypacker: I agree with you. Barrymore's a great actor.::Lulu Monahan: Oh, you can say that again. And when he's on the air for you, he'll sell more of your Vitamin L tablets...::Mr. Nelson Pennypacker: Not Vitamin L, Vitamin A!::Lulu Monahan: Well, they taste like L to me. Ha ha ha! Some joke, huh?

That's Right - You're Wrong (1939)

Actors: Kay Kyser Band (actor), Ernani Bernardi (actor), M.A. Bogue (actor), Harrison Carroll (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Stephen Chase (actor), Charles Doehrer (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Gus Glassmire (actor), Vinton Hayworth (actor), Edward Everett Horton (actor), Erskine Johnson (actor), Charles Judels (actor), Roscoe Karns (actor), Harry Babbitt (actor),

Plot: A fictional-story film in which many of the people seen in it are using their real name portraying the character who shows up in this fictional film in a completely fictional-and-staged setting, which means their role name is their own name, and is not any combination of "Self": The fictional J. D. Forbes, head of the (fictional) Four Star Studios in Hollywood, informs his associate producers that business and attendance at Four Star Films has tanked, and changes must be made. J. D. has decided that the movie-going public has to be offered down-to-earth entertainment such as that offered by a band leader named Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," and Forbes dictates to his hirelings to "get me Kay Kyser." When Chuck Deems---a fictional character playing the manager of a 'real' band---gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother ( a fictional character and not the actual Kay Kyser grandmother ) has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore (a fictional character), a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers, Tom Village and Dwight Cook, have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting, and Delmore, after meeting Kay Kyser, sees real quick like that a rewrite has to be done. Lots of fictional things follow including a fictional press conference.

Keywords: 1930s, actor, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-full-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, actress, agent, archive-footage, band-manager, bandleader
Genres: Comedy, Music,
Taglines: RADIO'S HOTTEST AND THE SCREEN'S BEST - in the laugh-swing show that lets itself go! "STUDENTS!" It's The Old Professor himself! A BOMBSHELL OF SENSATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT! THE LAUGH-SWING SENSATION OF THE CENTURY! 'STUDENTS!" Gather 'round for romance, rhythm and roars...in the laugh-swing sensation of the century! Rip My Rompers, Look Who's Here! in The Laugh-Swing Sensation Of The Century!

Quotes:

Kay Kyser: It looks like at the age of 32, I've become a problem child!

Grandma: Hang on to your happiness with both hands, dear. You can only be young once.

Kay Kyser: Now who made "Mammy" famous?::Kay Kyser's Band: Pappy!

Grandma: Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.