Jack Haley

John Joseph Haley Jr. (August 10, 1897 – June 6, 1979) was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer and vaudevillian. He was best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart Hickory in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Imada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Fleming
CAST:  Judy Garland  •  Frank Morgan  •  Ray Bolger  •  Bert Lahr

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Fleming
CAST:  Judy Garland  •  Frank Morgan  •  Ray Bolger  •  Bert Lahr

New York, New York (1977)

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Martin Scorsese
CAST:  Liza Minnelli  •  Robert De Niro  •  Lionel Stander  •  Barry Primus

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Martin Scorsese
CAST:  Liza Minnelli  •  Robert De Niro  •  Lionel Stander  •  Barry Primus

That's Entertainment! (1974)

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Haley Jr.
CAST:  Fred Astaire  •  Bing Crosby  •  Gene Kelly  •  Peter Lawford

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Haley Jr.
CAST:  Fred Astaire  •  Bing Crosby  •  Gene Kelly  •  Peter Lawford

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Butler
CAST:  Eddie Cantor  •  Tony Martin  •  Roland Young  •  June Lang

While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Butler
CAST:  Eddie Cantor  •  Tony Martin  •  Roland Young  •  June Lang

Norwood (1970)

A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Haley Jr.
CAST:  Glen Campbell  •  Joe Namath  •  Carol Lynley  •  Pat Hingle

A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Haley Jr.
CAST:  Glen Campbell  •  Joe Namath  •  Carol Lynley  •  Pat Hingle

Moon Over Miami (1941)

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Walter Lang
CAST:  Don Ameche  •  Betty Grable  •  Robert Cummings  •  Jack Haley

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Walter Lang
CAST:  Don Ameche  •  Betty Grable  •  Robert Cummings  •  Jack Haley

Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)

A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred Santell
CAST:  Dorothy Lamour  •  Richard Denning  •  Patricia Morison  •  Walter Abel

A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred Santell
CAST:  Dorothy Lamour  •  Richard Denning  •  Patricia Morison  •  Walter Abel

Make Mine Laughs (1949)

A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Fleischer  •  Hal Yates
CAST:  Gil Lamb  •  Joan Davis  •  Dennis Day  •  Ray Bolger

A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Fleischer  •  Hal Yates
CAST:  Gil Lamb  •  Joan Davis  •  Dennis Day  •  Ray Bolger

George White's Scandals (1945)

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Felix E. Feist
CAST:  Joan Davis  •  Jack Haley  •  Phillip Terry  •  Martha Holliday

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Felix E. Feist
CAST:  Joan Davis  •  Jack Haley  •  Phillip Terry  •  Martha Holliday

Danger – Love at Work (1937)

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Otto Preminger
CAST:  Ann Sothern  •  Jack Haley  •  Mary Boland  •  Edward Everett Horton

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Otto Preminger
CAST:  Ann Sothern  •  Jack Haley  •  Mary Boland  •  Edward Everett Horton

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Irving Cummings
CAST:  Shirley Temple  •  Jack Haley  •  Gloria Stuart  •  Alice Faye

Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Irving Cummings
CAST:  Shirley Temple  •  Jack Haley  •  Gloria Stuart  •  Alice Faye

People Are Funny (1946)

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sam White
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Helen Walker  •  Rudy Vallee  •  Ozzie Nelson

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sam White
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Helen Walker  •  Rudy Vallee  •  Ozzie Nelson

Sing Your Way Home (1945)

In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. En route, he has been assigned to watch over a band of teenagers who were trapped in Europe four years ago while entertaining the troops. Their entrapment ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Mann
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Marcy McGuire  •  Anne Jeffreys  •  Glen Vernon

In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. En route, he has been assigned to watch over a band of teenagers who were trapped in Europe four years ago while entertaining the troops. Their entrapment ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Mann
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Marcy McGuire  •  Anne Jeffreys  •  Glen Vernon

Scared Stiff (1945)

A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank McDonald
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Ann Savage  •  Barton MacLane  •  Veda Ann Borg

A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank McDonald
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Ann Savage  •  Barton MacLane  •  Veda Ann Borg

Take It Big (1944)

Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank McDonald
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Harriet Nelson  •  Mary Beth Hughes  •  Richard Lane

Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank McDonald
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Harriet Nelson  •  Mary Beth Hughes  •  Richard Lane

Navy Blues (1941)

On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lloyd Bacon
CAST:  Ann Sheridan  •  Jack Oakie  •  Martha Raye  •  Jack Haley

On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lloyd Bacon
CAST:  Ann Sheridan  •  Jack Oakie  •  Martha Raye  •  Jack Haley

Thanks for Everything (1938)

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William A. Seiter
CAST:  Adolphe Menjou  •  Jack Oakie  •  Jack Haley  •  Arleen Whelan

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William A. Seiter
CAST:  Adolphe Menjou  •  Jack Oakie  •  Jack Haley  •  Arleen Whelan

Hold That Co-ed (1938)

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Marshall
CAST:  John Barrymore  •  George Murphy  •  Marjorie Weaver  •  Joan Davis

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Marshall
CAST:  John Barrymore  •  George Murphy  •  Marjorie Weaver  •  Joan Davis

She Had to Eat (1937)

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Malcolm St. Clair
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Rochelle Hudson  •  Eugene Pallette  •  Arthur Treacher

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Malcolm St. Clair
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Rochelle Hudson  •  Eugene Pallette  •  Arthur Treacher

Mister Cinderella (1936)

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edward Sedgwick
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Betty Furness  •  Arthur Treacher  •  Raymond Walburn

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edward Sedgwick
CAST:  Jack Haley  •  Betty Furness  •  Arthur Treacher  •  Raymond Walburn
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