Jerry Colonna

Jerry Colonna

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gerardo Luigi "Jerry" Colonna (September 17, 1904 – November 22, 1986) was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist best remembered as the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s. With his pop-eyed facial expressions and walrus-sized handlebar moustache, Colonna was known for singing loudly "in a comic caterwaul," according to Raised on Radio author Gerald Nachman, and for his catchphrase, "Who's Yehudi?", uttered after many an old joke, although it usually had nothing to do with the joke. The line was believed to be named for violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, and the search for Yehudi became a running gag on the Hope show. Colonna featured in three of the popular Hope-Crosby Road films: Road to Singapore (1940) as Achilles Bombassa, Road to Rio (1947) as a Cavalry captain and The Road to Hong Kong (1962) in a cameo role. He can also be seen in the Fred Allen vehicle, It's in the Bag! (1945), as psychiatrist Dr. Greenglass, and he made a brief appearance with Hope in the "Wife, Husband and Wolf" sketch in Star Spangled Rhythm. In 1956 he performed the featured song "My Lucky Charm" in the film Meet Me in Las Vegas, starring Dan Dailey and Cyd Charisse. He provided the voice of the March Hare in the Walt Disney animated film version of Alice in Wonderland (1951) (another radio legend, Ed Wynn, voiced the Mad Hatter) and also lent his zany narration style to several Disney shorts, including Casey at the Bat (1946) and The Brave Engineer (1950).

  • Title: Jerry Colonna
  • Popularity: 2.351
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1904-09-17
  • Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Also Known As: Gerardo Luigi Colonna
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Jerry Colonna Movies

  • 1946
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    Make Mine Music

    Make Mine Music

    5.9 1946 HD

    In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as...

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  • 1951
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    7.2 1951 HD

    On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the...

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  • 1938
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    The Star Reporter

    The Star Reporter

    1 1938 HD

    An entry in Paramount's "Star Reporter" series starring Ted Husing. As usual, Ted is seated at a desk introducing various acts and peoplle, and the...

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  • 1950
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    The Brave Engineer

    The Brave Engineer

    6.063 1950 HD

    Casey Jones is one of the best engineers there is and it is his duty to get his cargo to its destination on time via train. He sets off but is set...

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  • 1988
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    Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

    Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

    6 1988 HD

    Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

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  • 1946
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    Casey at the Bat

    Casey at the Bat

    6.2 1946 HD

    The over-confident Casey comes to the plate for Mudville in this animated version of the classic 1888 baseball poem by Ernest Thayer

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  • 1941
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    Sis Hopkins

    Sis Hopkins

    6 1941 HD

    An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

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  • 1944
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    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City

    5 1944 HD

    In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...

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  • 1952
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    Ellis in Freedomland

    Ellis in Freedomland

    1 1952 HD

    Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the...

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  • 1977
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    Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

    Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

    1 1977 HD

    During World War II, an Italian POW is accidentally drafted into the American army.

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  • 1951
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    Kentucky Jubilee

    Kentucky Jubilee

    5.5 1951 HD

    A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.

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  • 1938
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    Swingtime in the Movies

    Swingtime in the Movies

    5.8 1938 HD

    In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.

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  • 1937
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    Rosalie

    Rosalie

    5.5 1937 HD

    West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

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  • 1938
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    Little Miss Broadway

    Little Miss Broadway

    6.6 1938 HD

    An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and...

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  • 1942
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    Star Spangled Rhythm

    Star Spangled Rhythm

    5.9 1942 HD

    Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

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  • 1941
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    Ice-Capades

    Ice-Capades

    5 1941 HD

    Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating...

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  • 1936
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    Song Hits on Parade

    Song Hits on Parade

    1 1936 HD

    Freddie Rich and his band perform a selection of musical numbers.

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  • 1938
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    Garden of the Moon

    Garden of the Moon

    5.8 1938 HD

    Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...

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  • 1939
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    Naughty But Nice

    Naughty But Nice

    6.2 1939 HD

    Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

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  • 1940
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    Road to Singapore

    Road to Singapore

    6.5 1940 HD

    Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...

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  • 1945
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    It's in the Bag!

    It's in the Bag!

    5 1945 HD

    The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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  • 2002
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    Entertaining the Troops: Bob Hope & the USO

    Entertaining the Troops: Bob Hope & the USO

    1 2002 HD

    When the United States entered World War II, President Roosevelt exempted Bob Hope from military service because of the need for entertainers. So...

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  • 1938
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    Port of Seven Seas

    Port of Seven Seas

    1 1938 HD

    In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets...

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  • 1944
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    Musical Movieland

    Musical Movieland

    6 1944 HD

    A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they...

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  • 1938
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    Valley of the Giants

    Valley of the Giants

    6 1938 HD

    A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.

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  • 1942
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    Ice Capades Revue

    Ice Capades Revue

    5.7 1942 HD

    Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich,...

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  • 1940
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    Melody and Moonlight

    Melody and Moonlight

    5 1940 HD

    Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of...

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  • 1956
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    Meet Me in Las Vegas

    Meet Me in Las Vegas

    4.7 1956 HD

    Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't...

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  • 1958
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    Andy Hardy Comes Home

    Andy Hardy Comes Home

    4.5 1958 HD

    Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.

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  • 1957
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    Pinocchio

    Pinocchio

    1 1957 HD

    Pinocchio is a 1957 TV musical broadcast shown live on NBC, directed and choreographed by Hanya Holm. This version features songs by Alec Wilder.

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  • 1941
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    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

    1 1941 HD

    Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.

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  • 1996
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    Bob Hope: Laughing With the Presidents

    Bob Hope: Laughing With the Presidents

    7.5 1996 HD

    For 11 Presidents, Bob Hope was a golfing buddy, national jester and constant guest at the White House. This special includes personal recollections...

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  • 1976
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    Joys

    Joys

    4 1976 HD

    Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies...

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  • 1942
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    True to the Army

    True to the Army

    1 1942 HD

    A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base.

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  • 1942
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    Priorities on Parade

    Priorities on Parade

    1 1942 HD

    Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant....

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  • 2017
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    This Is Bob Hope...

    This Is Bob Hope...

    8 2017 HD

    During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the...

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  • 1940
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    Comin' Round the Mountain

    Comin' Round the Mountain

    1 1940 HD

    A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.

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  • 1939
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    Sweepstakes Winner

    Sweepstakes Winner

    3.7 1939 HD

    A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

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  • 1962
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    The Road to Hong Kong

    The Road to Hong Kong

    5.7 1962 HD

    When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are...

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  • 1943
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    Stars on Horseback

    Stars on Horseback

    1 1943 HD

    A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.

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  • 1946
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    Road to Utopia

    Road to Utopia

    6.6 1946 HD

    While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

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  • 1955
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    Music Land

    Music Land

    6 1955 HD

    Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music'...

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  • 1951
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    Operation Wonderland

    Operation Wonderland

    7.3 1951 HD

    1951 behind the scenes featurette of the Walt Disney animated classic.

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  • 1944
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    G.I. Journal

    G.I. Journal

    1 1944 HD

    We see them all here including male vocalist Harry Babbitt, comic Ish Kabibble and guest stars like Jerry Colonna, Mel Blanc, Lucille Ball and Linda...

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1966
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    The Monkees

    The Monkees

    6.531 1966 HD

    Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid...

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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  • 1974
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    Dinah!

    Dinah!

    6.5 1974 HD

    Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured...

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  • 1956
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    The Rosemary Clooney Show

    The Rosemary Clooney Show

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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