It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ...comedy movie that followed the For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to...Hollywood trend in the Centuries: 19th century _ 20th century _ 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s _ 1960s _ 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ...1960s of producing "gigantic" and "epic" For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of...films as a way to woo audiences into movie theaters. See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Family watching television in the 1950s. ...Television had sapped the regular moviegoing audience and box office revenues were dropping, and the major studios experimented with a number of "gimmicks" to attract audiences, including A widescreen image is a film image with a greater aspect ratio than the ordinary 35 millimeter frame. ...widescreen films. It premiered on November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ...November 7, Events January_February January 11 _ The Whisky A Go_Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ...1963.

Written by Tania and William Rose, not only was It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World filmed in For the UK rock group, see: Cinerama (band) The original Cinerama system is a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146º of arc. ...Cinerama (the biggest of the widescreen cinema technologies), it also had an all_star cast, with literally dozens of major comedy stars from all eras of cinema making appearances in the film.

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Stars of this film included (alphabetical):

• Edie Adams as Monica Crump, wife of Melville Crump
• Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson as a cab driver
• Milton Berle (né Milton Berlinger) (July 12, 1908–March 27, 2002) was an extremely popular American comedian, whose career spanned vaudeville, radio, television, and film. ...Milton Berle as edible seaweed salesman, J. Russell Finch
• Sid Caesar (born Isaac Sidney Caesar on September 8, 1922) is an Emmy_winning comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows. ...Sid Caesar as dentist, Melville Crump (a role originally meant for Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919 _ January 13, 1962) was a creative and innovative entertainer from the early days of television. ...Ernie Kovacs before his death in a car accident)
• James Francis Jimmy Durante (February 10, 1893 _ January 29, 1980) was an American entertainer, one of the most popular and recognized personalities of the 1920s_1960s. ...Jimmy Durante as Smiler Grogan
• Peter Falk (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor. ...Peter Falk as a cab driver
• Buddy Hackett ( August 31, 1924 _ June 30, 2003), born Leonard Hacker, was an American comedian and actor. ...Buddy Hackett as gambler, Benjy Benjamin
• Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 _ February 15, 1984) was a star of stage and film musicals, well known for her strident voice and comic acting. ...Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus, mother_in_law of J. Russell Finch
• Dorothy Provine as Emeline Marcus_Finch, wife of J. Russell Finch
• Joe Yule, Jr. ...Mickey Rooney as gambler, Ding Bell
• Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus, Emmaline's brother
• Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 - November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. ...Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
• Terry_Thomas (left) and Clive Morton in a scene from Lucky Jim (1957) Terry_Thomas (Thomas Terence Hoare_Stephens) (14 July 1911 _ 8 January 1990) was a distinctive British comic actor of the 1950s and 1960s. ...Terry_Thomas as Lt. Col. Algernon Hawthorne
• Spencer Tracy Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 _ June 10, 1967) was an American film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 through the 1960s. ...Spencer Tracy as Captain Culpepper
• Jonathan Winters (born November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American comedic actor. ...Jonathan Winters as truck driver, Lennie Pike

There were also Since its first use in 1851, a cameo role or cameo appearance has been a brief appearance in a play (or later, a movie) that stands out against the general context for its éclat or dramatic punch. ...cameo appearances by:

• Jim Backus (February 25, 1913 _ July 3, 1989) was a radio, television and movie actor, and voice actor. ...Jim Backus as Tyler Fitzgerald
• Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was a comedian, vaudeville performer, film actor, and one of the most prominent early stars of American radio and television. ...Jack Benny as man in the car
• Ben Blue (Born Benjamin Bernstein) ( September 12, 1901 – March 7, 1975) was an actor and comedian. ...Ben Blue as the biplane pilot
• Joe E. Brown may refer to several people: Joseph Evans Brown (July 28, 1892 _ July 6, 1973), American screen actor, portrayer of Capn Andy Hawks in the motion picture Show Boat Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 _ November 30, 1894) governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1865, and U...Joe E. Brown as the union official
• William Demarest (February 27, 1892 _ December 28, 1983) was an American character actor. ...William Demarest as the chief of police
• Andy Devine (born Jeremiah Schwartz) (October 7, 1905 _ February 18, 1977) was a rotund, raspy-voiced character actor and comic cowboy sidekick. ...Andy Devine as the sheriff
• Norman Fell (March 24, 1924 _ December 14, 1998) (born Norman Feld) was an American actor best known for his role as landlord Stanley Roper on Threes Company. ...Norman Fell as a detective
• Stan Freberg (born August 7, 1926) is a voice actor and comedian. ...Stan Freberg as a deputy sheriff
• Sterling Holloway (January 4, 1905 _ November 22, 1992) was a perennial voice actor for the Walt Disney Studios, who began with a cameo role in Dumbo and later became a Disney legend as the voice of Winnie the Pooh. ...Sterling Holloway as the fire chief
• Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886 _ September 29, 1970) was an American actor with a long career including motion pictures, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. ...Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Dinckler
• Joseph Francis Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), always known as Buster Keaton, was a popular and influential American silent-film comic actor and filmmaker. ...Buster Keaton as Jimmy the boatman
• Knotts as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show Jesse Donald Don Knotts (born July 21, 1924) is an American actor. ...Don Knotts as the nervous motorist
• Charles Lane (born January 26, 1905 in San Francisco, California as Charles Gerstle Levinson) is a American character actor. ...Charles Lane as the airport manager
• This article is about the comedian and telethon host; Jerry Lewis is also the name of a U.S. politician. ...Jerry Lewis as man who runs over hat
• ZaSu Pitts (3 January 1894 _ 7 June 1963) was a United States movie actress. ...Zasu Pitts as the switchboard operator
• Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American actor, movie director, producer, writer and comedian. ...Carl Reiner as the tower controller
• Arnold Stang as Ray, the garage man
• and the The Three Stooges was an American comedy act in the 20th century. ...Three Stooges as firemen

Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 _ June 22, 1969) was a American film actress who is considered one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywoods Golden Era of musical film. ...Judy Garland, Groucho Marx poses for an NBC promotional photograph Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 _ August 19, 1977), was an American comedian, working both with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and on his own. ...Groucho Marx, Burns holding his trademark cigar. ...George Burns, and Bernard Richard Red Skelton (July 18, 1913–September 17, 1997) was an American comedian born in Vincennes, Indiana who started in vaudeville as a teen_ager, worked his way up to Broadway shows, secondary roles in MGM movies, radio performances and finally popularity in the early days of TV. His...Red Skelton were among the many other celebrities considered for roles, but turned down the offers.

The plot of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World follows the occupants of four vehicles who stop to help a man who has just careened off the highway. With his dying breaths, the man tells the bystanders about $350,000 that he hid in the town of Santa Rosita, less than a day's drive away, under “the big W”. A wild race across the desert follows, as each carload of people tries to be first to find the money and claim it for themselves.

Stanley Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was an American movie director and producer. ...Stanley Kramer claimed he wanted to make the ultimate comedy film. At more than two and a half hours (originally including an intermission) it is certainly one of the longest. Most of the humor is not especially sophisticated, consisting mainly of very noisy slapstick gags. Terry_Thomas's character's rant against the American obsession with bosoms still strikes a chord with non_American audiences. The movie is a showcase for these fabulous comedians because each plays his role in his own comedic style. For example, preserved for all time is classic Phil Silvers, classic Milton Berle, even classic Buster Keaton.

The title was taken from Thomas Middleton (baptized April 18, 1580, died 1627) was an English Elizabethan playwright and poet. ...Thomas Middleton's Events April 13 _ Tsar Boris Godunow dies _ Feodor II accedes to the throne May 16 _ Paul V becomes Pope June 1 _ Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother. ...1605 Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ...comedy A Mad World, My Masters. Kramer claimed to have considered adding a fifth "mad" to the title before deciding that it would be redundant.

The film had a wonderful title theme song with music by Ernest Gold and lyrics by Mack David (born July 5, 1912) was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work with movies and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Disney films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland. ...Mack David. They also wrote for the film "You satisfy my soul" and "Thirty_one flavors."

The The most famous incarnation of The Avengers, John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) appear on the cover of a 1994 reprint of an Avengers novel co_written by Macnee. ...New Avengers episode "The Tale of the Big Why" seems to have borrowed part of its storyline from IAMMMMW _ at the end of the episode the characters realise they are looking not for a metaphysical "big why" but a physical "big Y".

In an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures is an animated television series created by the Warner Bros. ...Tiny Toon Adventures, the characters, following a treasure map, find that they have not been looking for an X is the twenty_fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. ...X marked in the sand, but the location where the shadows of two crossed palm trees falls. Of course, this would change throughout the day, but that does not matter in the greater scheme of the plot (see Suspension of disbelief is a willingness of a reader or viewer to suspend his critical faculties to the extent of ignoring minor inconsistencies so as to enjoy a work of fiction. ...suspension of disbelief).

A 1994 episode of The Simpsons. ...The Simpsons, "Homer the Vigilante," features money supposedly hidden beneath a "big T," along with other elements borrowed from the movie.

Rat Race is a 2001 comedy film (not to be confused with The Rat Race of 1960) directed by Jerry Zucker, producer of other films such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun series. ...Rat Race, a film made in 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...2001, has a similar basic premise.

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