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Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives cross when they are unwittingly made the subjects of ...
Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy reprise their roles as Mortimer and Randolph Duke respectively from Landis's Murphy-starring comedy film Trading Places (1983) who have become homeless after the events of the film and receive money from Akeem. [7] A segment of the Trading Places score can be heard during their scene.
In the 1983 movie “Trading Places,” the life of a financial manager is switched with a Philly street hustler when two filthy-rich commodities brokers — brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke ...
Don Ameche (/ ə ˈ m iː tʃ i /; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) [1] was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian.After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935.
Mortimer Brewster, protagonist of the play Arsenic and Old Lace and its film adaptaton; Mortimer Delvile, one of the protagonists in Cecilia (Burnley novel) Mortimer Duke, in the movie Trading Places, played by Don Ameche; Mortimer McMire, the primary antagonist of the Commander Keen series; Mortimer Mouse, a Disney character and rival of ...
Some, like “Trading Places,” comically depict the mayhem of the trading floor. Others, like “The Wizard of Lies,” are sobering representations of real events.
Randolph and Mortimer Duke in Trading Places; Mr. Potter; Jack Benny; Mother's boy: An awkward man who is excessively attached to his mother. Often he continues to act in a childish, submissive fashion even into adulthood. Private Pike; Howard Wolowitz; Eddie Kaspbrak (Stephen King's It) Norman Bates; Kes from Mother's Boys; Mother-in-law
In order to get enough food, youth are allowed to gamble through card games and sports bets while trading “picks” — the right to take someone else’s food at the next meal. Former employees recall going without basic supplies such as toilet paper, deodorant and tampons — also violations of department policy.