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Edmund Gwenn. Edmund Gwenn was generally known for playing good guys. Among his other roles are the Captain in Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry" and his Oscar winning role as Santa in "Miracle on 34th Street". The other three actors listed all co-starred in the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon".
Roland Young. The 1937 movie "Topper" starred Constance Bennett and Cary Grant as a fun loving couple who are killed in an auto accident and become ghosts. They decide to shake up the life style of their stodgy friend Topper, (played by Roland Young) who is the only person who can see or hear them.
Bob Hope's ears. "The Road to Hong Kong" was the final destination for Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, who starred in seven 'Road' pictures. In "Hong Kong," Sellers plays an Indian doctor giving Bob an examination. He looks through Bob's ears and says to Bing Crosby that "he can see him" on the other side.
Swordfish. Groucho plays the new President of Huxley College. He wants to oversee the education of his son (played by his younger brother Zeppo) who encourages him to recruit two football players who hang out at the Speakeasy. Groucho goes down to the speakeasy, but accidentally recruits Harpo and Chico instead.
Luxury Liner. Jean Arthur plays a socialite married to a wealthy, but insanely jealous tycoon. While trying to escape from him she is rescued by a Parisian head waiter named Paul Dumond. Arthur's husband frames Dumond for murder and uses the threat of exposure as blackmail to get Arthur to come back to him and return to America with him. Unaware of the threat, Dumond follows her to the United States.
By memorizing it. The hero, Canadian Richard Hannay, (played by Robert Donat) is visiting London. He goes to a show at a musical hall featuring Mr. Memory. He meets a young woman running away from secert agents and he tries to help her, but she is murdered and he finds himself involved in a case of murder and espionage.
The owner of lemonade stand. In "Duck Soup," Groucho Marx plays Rufus T. Firefly, the President of the bankrupt country Freedonia. Groucho declares war on the neighboring country of Sylvania. The President of Sylvania hires Chico and Harpo to spy on Freedonia. While spying, Harpo and Chico pretend to run a popcorn stand and Harpo has a run-in with the owner of the neighboring lemonade stand (played by Edgar Kennedy).
Amnesia. William Powell plays Larry Wilson, who while on vacation, suffers a blow to the head. When he comes to, he remembers that he is really a con man named George Carey. He soon discovers that Wilson has money, position and a wife, so he returns to Wilson's hometown to see what he can get out of his former life.
She trips him. In "The Lady Eve" Henry Fonda boards a liner while returning from a year long expedition in the Amazon. While eating dinner he is surrounded by women. Because he is rich and handsome and the most elgible bachelor on the ship all of the women have their eyes on him. Barbara Stanwyck is watching and she narrates the scene as several of the women make an attempt to meet Fonda using such standard approaches such as "Didn't I meet you somewhere before?" and the old "drop the handkerchief trick." Then when he passes her, she sticks her foot out and trips him.
The Statue of Liberty. Robert Cummmings plays an aircraft factory worker who is accused of murder and espionage. He goes after the real culprit, the fifth columnist Mr. Fry, and finally confronts him at the Statue of Liberty.
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