Benjamin Stoloff
2 credits on HibingeTV
American film director (1895-1960) who directed comedies and dramas in the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Joke, Son! (1947). He began as an assistant director in the silent era and directed features for various studios including Fox, Columbia, and Eagle-Lion.
Directed
Comedy
A comedy based on the wildly popular radio character Senator Beauregard Claghorn, played by Kenny Delmar on the Fred Allen show. Claghorn is a blustering Southern politician whose every sentence begins with "I'm from the South, suh!" and ends with "That's a joke, son!" In the film, the senator opposes his daughter's romance with a Yankee and gets entangled in a political scheme involving a corrupt party boss. The Claghorn character was the direct inspiration for Warner Bros.' cartoon rooster Foghorn Leghorn, who borrowed Delmar's voice and catchphrases. The film is in the public domain.
Comedy
It's a Joke, Son!
1947 - Comedy
Comedy, Pre-Code
The first film to feature the Three Stooges, directed by Benjamin Stoloff for Fox Film Corporation. Ted Healy stars as the obnoxious owner of a dress shop whose employees include the three men who would become the most famous comedy team in history: Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, and Larry Fine. The plot involves a fire insurance scam gone wrong, but the real attraction is seeing the Stooges in their original incarnation as Healy's comic foils. The film captures the rough, violent, vaudeville-style humor that defined their act before they broke from Healy and refined their slapstick for the two-reel shorts that made them legends. The film is in the public domain.
Comedy · Pre-Code
Soup to Nuts
1930 - Comedy