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Whistling in the Dark is a 1941 American comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon.It is the first of three films starring Red Skelton as Wally "the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries.
He directed Red Skelton's first starring feature, 1941's Whistling in the Dark, and in 1948 worked on two more Skelton vehicles, MGM's A Southern Yankee (replacing the scheduled director Edward Sedgwick) and Columbia Pictures' The Fuller Brush Man. Simon also directed Wallace Beery in Bad Bascomb (1946), and a Glenn Ford western, Lust for Gold ...
Whistling in the Dark, a comedy crime film adapted from a Broadway play of the same title Whistling in the Dark (1932 play) starring Ernest Truex; Whistling in the Dark, another adaptation of the play, starring Red Skelton
At age 57, Kagen began her career as a novelist. Her first novel, Whistling in the Dark, published in May 2007 is a "coming-of-age thriller set in Milwaukee during the summer of 1959." [4] Publishers Weekly deemed the "mystery elements" of the novel as "sketchy" but said that "Kagen sharply depicts the vulnerability of children of any era."
He appeared in around two dozen MGM light comedies and musicals. He gained popularity as Red Skelton's cohort in the "Whistling" movies (Whistling in the Dark, Whistling in Dixie and Whistling in Brooklyn). His final film appearance was in the drama The Hoodlum Saint (1946).
(1932). He recreated one of his stage roles in one of his early films, Whistling in the Dark (1933). His role in the 1935 film Diamond Jim boosted him to stardom. He reprised the role of Diamond Jim Brady in the 1940 film Lillian Russell.
He made his film debut in 1913, but did not work in film full-time for another 20 years. He tended to play "milquetoast" characters and in The Warrior's Husband he played a "nance". In the 1938 The Adventures of Marco Polo, he played Marco Polo's comical assistant, opposite Gary Cooper.
He made his last American film, Whistling in the Dark, in 1941. [11] Still using the name Paul Ellis, Granada next shows up in films in 1947 in Argentina, and continued to appear in films in Argentina. He appeared in the Mexican/Argentine co-production La Tierra del Fuego se apaga.