Fri 8 Aug 2025
Archived Movie Review: LOOK WHO’S LAUGHING (1941).
Posted by Steve under Films: Comedy/Musicals , Old Time Radio , Reviews[2] Comments
LOOK WHO’S LAUGHING. RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee & Molly, Lucille Ball, Harold Peary. Director: Allan Dwan.
Edgar and Charlie make an unscheduled landing in Wistful Vista, the home of Fibber McGee and Molly. Lucille Ball is Edgar’s secretary, and to make things complicated, she is secretly in love with him.
The rest of the story has to do with land for a proposed airplane factory in Wistful Vista, but the main attraction of the story is seeing so many famous radio characters in the flesh – including Fibber’s long-time nemesis, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve.
— Reprinted from Movie.File.1, March 1988.
August 9th, 2025 at 8:32 pm
something about Harod Peary always struck me funny. With his chubby frame and rich voice, he just seemed like a pompous balloon in search of a needle. Too bad the movies he starred in were so disappointing.
August 9th, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Back in the early 40s Peary played Fibber’s friend/semi-enemy Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve in this film and 5 or 6 others among a few others before switching to TV when TV came along. No big splash, though, as you say.
He did indeed have a voice built for radio, though. No doubt about that.