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	Gale - Fivestar Press - Press Room - Life with Jack Oakie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oakie was married to Jack Oakie, one of the greatest performers in the history of motion pictures, for more than thirty-four years.
		Oakie's anecdotes are spread throughout her life with Jack and the many people, celebrities and otherwise, who touched their lives.
		Jack Oakie remains in the hearts of millions because of his warm smile, his deep love for humanity and his wonderful talents as an actor, a singer, a dancer, and a writer.
	www.galegroup.com /fivestar/pressroom/oakie.htm (274 words)

	Classic Images: Jack Oakie
		Jack was teamed with fellow vaudevillian "Skeets" Gallagher, a blond, laconic and sleepy- eyed comic.
		Jack's follow-up, Young People (1940) was a charming little show biz tale with Shirley Temple and Charlotte Greenwood, but his third film of the year, Little Men, turned out to be a cloying adaptation of one of Louisa May Alcott's less successful books.
		Jack's sudden death from an aortic aneurysm on January 23, 1978, came as a great shock to his family and friends.
	www.classicimages.com /1997/february/jackoakie.html (1768 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Victoria H. Oakie, character actress
		She established the Jackie Oakie Comedy Lectures at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and donated her husband's show business memorabilia to the University of Wyoming, which until a couple of years ago housed the material in the Jack Oakie Room, a recreation of the actor's den.
		Oakie had donated her Los Angeles estate to the University of Southern California, whose School of Cinema-Television will establish the Victoria and Jack Oakie Endowed Chair in Comedy.
		Oakie was born in New York City and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/10/19/victoria_h_oakie_character_actress?mode=PF (376 words)

	Jack Oakie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jack Oakie was a popular comedian and master of the "double take" in nearly 100 films.
		Oakie was raised in Oklahoma, and took his name from the common nickname for residents of that state.
		Oakie is perhaps best remembered for his performance as Napaloni, the dictator of Bacteria, in Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (1940).
	www.cemeteryguide.com /oakie.html (247 words)

	Call of the Wild (1935 b 81') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jack tells Claire to stay at the hotel; but she argues and insists on going.
		Jack says grabbing is the law of the Klondike; but Claire believes in more humane law.
		Jack tells Claire he is keeping her; but she says Blake needs her.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1935/CalloftheWild.html (431 words)

	Lycos Celebrity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Talkies proved a boon to Oakie, who was signed by Paramount in 1927 and played wisecracking collegiates in several early musicals (notably "Sweetie", 1929, with Helen Kane).
		Jack Oakie seemed to turn up in every other film in the 1930s and '40s, usually as the best pal of the leading man (though he himself was the romantic lead in the brilliant "Million Dollar Legs", 1932).
		Oakie appeared in such films as "Too Much Harmony" and "Alice in Wonderland" (1933), "The Big Broadcast of 1936", "Tin Pan Alley" (1940), and parodying Mussolini in Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" (1940), for which he won an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor.
	entertainment.lycos.com /celebrities/celebrity_bio.asp?id=26060&pagetemplate=purple (176 words)

	Sitting Pretty (1933) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jack Oakie was a very funny comedian within his narrow range.
		Jack Oakie (music) and Jack Haley (lyrics) play a would-be songwriting team; Haley has no illusions about his own talent, but he thinks Oakie's a genius...
		Anyway, the magnum opus of this pair of Jacks is a pity of a ditty called 'I Wanna Meander with Miranda', which gives you some idea of their career aspirations.
	indie.imdb.com /title/tt0024570 (518 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Tin Pan Alley
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Oakie is a typical breezy ex-vaudevillian, teamed with tunesmithtunesmith-ambitious Payne in a publishing venture.
		Oakie provides a standout characterization as the free-and-easy vaudevillian, generating plenty of laughs with his mugging lines and situations that highlight his abilities.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117795750?categoryid=31&cs=1 (441 words)

	Untitled 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BIO: The parents of American actor Jack Oakie had hopes that their son would enter the business world, but a spell as telephone clerk in a brokerage house convinced Oakie to look elsewhere for a career.
		Unpredictable in his likes and dislikes, Oakie was the sort of fellow who brusquely shooed away autograph seekers, but who also visited ailing comedian Stan Laurel, a man Oakie barely knew, to brighten up Stan's hospital stay at a time when some of Laurel's "close" pals didn't want to show up.
		Just before his death, Jack Oakie committed his memories to a sometimes fanciful but always entertaining biography, Jack Oakie's Double Takes, which was published posthumously by Jack's widow, actress Victoria Horne.
	www.fuller4life.com /nostalgia.htm (687 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Jack Oakie: MAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The parents of American actor Jack Oakie had hopes that their son would enter the business world, but a spell as telephone clerk in a brokerage...
		From big-budgeted comedies to B Westerns and football flicks, Jack Oakie was...
		The Jack Oakie Lecture was established in 1981 to honor achievement in the writing,...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=53725 (271 words)

	Lectures and Seminars - The Jack Oakie Lecture - The Marvin Borowsky Lecture - Academy Foundation - The Academy of ...
		The Jack Oakie Lecture was established in 1981 to honor achievement in the writing, directing and performing of motion picture comedy.
		Writer Larry Gelbart spoke at the inaugural presentation on November 12 (the anniversary of Oakie's birth) with Hal Kanter as host and Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Lynn Redgrave participating in the program.
		The lecture was named in honor of Jack Oakie, who then-Executive Director James M. Roberts called "a master of comic timing and a beloved figure in the industry."
	www.oscars.org /foundation/lectures/oakie.html (152 words)

	A Taste of Cheese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Jack Oakie Lecture was established in 1981 to honour achievement in the writing, directing and performing of motion picture comedy.
		The lecture was named in honour of Jack Oakie, who was referred to by James M. Roberts (an Executive Director at the time) as "a master of comic timing and a beloved figure in the industry."
		The name was changed to the Jack Oakie Comedy Award and it is presented by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation in America.
	www.montypythonpages.com /CSection/oakie.htm (163 words)

	Weitz Brothers Share Laughs for Academy's Comedy Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Jack Oakie Lecture on Comedy in Film provides an opportunity for established filmmakers to share their experiences and to discuss the specific challenges and delights of the comedy film genre.
		The lecture is named in memory of the comic and character actor, born a century ago on November 12, 1903, whose career included vaudeville, Broadway musicals and eighty-seven pictures, most of them comedies or musical comedies.
		Tickets for the Jack Oakie Lecture on Comedy in Film featuring Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with valid identification.
	www.ampas.org /press/pressreleases/2003/03.10.30.a.html (385 words)

	Academy's Comedy Lecture to Focus on Funny Females
		The Jack Oakie Lecture on Comedy in Film was created to provide a forum for eminent filmmakers and scholars to address the hard labor behind the delicate art of screen comedy.
		Established in 1981, it is named for an actor who, in his personal life and in the 87 films he made, came to personify the comic mood.
		Tickets for the Jack Oakie Lecture featuring Stephen M. Silverman are $5 for the general public, $3 for Academy members and students with valid identification.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/1999/99.10.13.html (342 words)

	Class Act: Those Golden Movie Musicals: Actors and Actresses: "O"
		Worked in radio as well, including his own weekly radio show called "Jack Oakie's College," which was the first show to put Little Judy Garland under regular cast contract in 1937.
		Oakie worked for Paramount in the 1930s, 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s.
		Oakie is a fun and memorable character in many musicals.
	www.classicmoviemusicals.com /actorso.htm (861 words)

	Jack Oakie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A popular portly comic with vaudeville and Broadway experience who borrowed his stage name from the state of Oklahoma, where he was raised from age five.
		His family later moved to New York, where Oakie attended a business school and found work as a telephone clerk in a Wall Street brokerage house.
		During the 30s he was often featured in comedies and musicals with college campus backgrounds, although he looked too old and too dumb to be believable as a bona fide student.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho2/oakie_j.htm (224 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jack Oakie stars in this satire of everything from prize-fighting to polo.
		After suffering a humiliating defeat in the ring, boxer Marco Perkins (Oakie) successfully takes up polo, chiefly because he wants to impress society princess Gloria (Olive Borden), who, however, is merely leading him on for her own amusement.
		An Oakie formula story, THE SOCIAL LION combines that special touch of pathos within comedy that was the actor's trademark.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=20923 (113 words)

	GRW SCRIPT: Jack Oakie College
		An hour of painless education, under President Jack Oakie, Professor Benny Goodman and his swing band, and Doctor Georgie Stoll and his orchestra.
		That dame in there is probably one of the naughtiest coeds that ever came to Oakie College, and I'm gonna tell her off.
		Oakie, us kids didn't know Minstrel shows were as swell as that.
	www.genericradio.com /show.php?id=3c7493ff798a97ae (3943 words)

	Million Dollar Legs Diplomaniacs
		Top-billed Jack Oakie is energetic, if not really funny, and is overshadowed by fiesty Susan Fleming, who plays Fields daughter.
		Material is clearly recycled from the first film into the second, although setting Million Dollar Legs in the mythical kingdom of Klopstockia (like Duck Soup's Fredonia) exempts it from the disparaging remarks directed against virtually every ethnic/racial minority in Diplomaniacs.
		Although they are currently undergoing a small rediscovery, Richard Barrios in his superb book, A Song in the Dark says, "Wheeler and Woolsey are a taste that many audiences may not wish to acquire." See what you think.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/TMP984240230.htm (1489 words)

	Joan Crawford Encyclopedia: O
		(11/12/03 - 1/23/78) Bombastic comedian known primarily for his second-banana roles, Oakie was born Lewis Offield and had a 40-year film and TV career, receiving an Oscar nomination for his supporting Mussolini-esque role in Chaplin's 1940 film The Great Dictator.
		There was nothing romantic between us, but we spent a lot of time together walking through Central Park and down Fifth Avenue..." (CM) They parted when Oakie went on the road with "Eyes," but met up again 4 years later at a movie premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater.
		Oakie began to sing, "When hearts are young in organdy days...," a song from the show.
	www.joancrawfordbest.com /o.htm (1070 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Also on board is Jack Oakie, a laborer who is mistaken for a famous engineer.
		Romance quickly develops between Rogers and Oakie, as Oakie soaks up all the praise and attention he receives because of his mistaken identity.
		With the charming smiles of Rogers and Oakie, and directer Sutherland around to liven up the flat material, this project couldn't go wrong.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=19202 (173 words)

	1922 - 1939 Timeline
		Judy is added to the cast of "Jack Oakie's College" radio show as a "young blues singer" and performs "(Dear Mr.
		Performs on "Jack Oakie's College" radio show and sings "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm," "Shine On, Harvest Moon" (with verse), and "My Daddy Was A Minstrel Man".
		Performs on "Jack Oakie's College" radio show and sings "There's A Lull In My Life" (with the intro, "I woke up this morning and the sun was shining" later used in "I'm Nobody's Baby") and "Johnny One Note".
	www.thejudyroom.com /timeline.html (5109 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - Funny Brothers Give Comedy Lecture
		The duo will deliver the Jack Oakie Lecture on Comedy in Film for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater and will present numerous film clips.
		The lecture is named in memory of the comic and character actor whose career included vaudeville, Broadway musicals and eighty-seven pictures, most of them comedies or musical comedies.
		For more information on the Jack Oakie lecture, visit the Academy's website.
	www.zap2it.com /movies/go?path=/movies/news/story&general_id=19272 (313 words)

	Classic Images: Jack Oakie Filmography
		Evelyn Oakie, Ann Demetrio, Henry Armetta, Shirley Grey, Dell Henderson, Billy Bevan, Cyril King.
		Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, Thelma Todd, Gregory Ratoff, Lew Cody, Harry Revel, Jerry Tucker, Mack Gordon, Hale Ha milton, Walter Walker.
		Ann Sheridan, Martha Raye, Jack Haley, Herbert Anderson, Jack Carson, Jackie C. Gleason, Richard Lane, William T, Orr, Georgia Carroll, Marguerite Chapman, Katharine Aldridge, Claire James.
	www.classicimages.com /1997/february/jackoakie_films.html (3051 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Great Dictator (1940)
		It is one of the great cosmic jokes that the greatest monster of the twentieth century bore a remarkable resemblance to its greatest clown—it's evidence that we live in a synchronistic universe, and that despite its horrors, Fascism cannot stand in the face of being laughed at.
		His two chief henchmen are Herr Herring and Herr Garbage; he goes toe-to-toe with a Mussolini stand-in, Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of Bacteria, played with brilliant physical comedy and a silly Chico Marx-like accent by Jack Oakie.
		Napaloni is as vulgar as Hynkel is pretentious; the competition between the two as to who will be top dog is among the funniest stuff in the movie.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5595 (1220 words)

	Young People movie for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Adopted as an infant by the husband and wife vaudeville team of Joe (Jack Oakie) and Kit Ballantine (Charlotte Greenwood), she grows into childhood as a vital part of their act.
		But, as she approaches school age, the couple feel that life on the road is not the best thing for Wendy, and they decide to buy a farm in Vermont and settle down.
		Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery, Kathleen Howard, Charles Halton, Minor Watson
	www.1stvideo.com /releasechoice.asp?ID=1059831&TAN=1 (577 words)

	Let's Go Native (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He and his comic companion, Voltaire McGinnis (Jack Oakie), beg another of Joan's suitors, Chief Officer Williams (David Newell), to get them jobs on the same boat.
		Wally soon discovers that Constance (Kay Francis), the fiancee his millionaire grandfather has chosen for him years before, is on board.
		("Pampa Rose" was ultimately used in the 1935 film Coronado) The song "Don't I Do," apparently intended for Oakie to sing to Francis, was also cut, possibly replaced by "I've Gotta Yen for You." Apparently used as background music: "Gotta Be Good" by Victor Schertzinger.
	www.dandugan.com /maytime/f-letsgo.html (624 words)

	Class Act: Those Golden Movie Musicals: Films: "R"
		Jack Oakie and Milton Berle are down-and-out songwriters.
		So, Oakie and Berle get a contract to write a song score, and try to compose the score by jotting down notes when Burns is sleeping.
		At first planned as a vehicle for Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie, this light-hearted adventure featured the first screen pairing of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, and the result was movie history.
	www.classicmoviemusicals.com /filmsr.htm (3413 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Wintertime
		Story revolves about a Norwegian refugee and his daughter (Sonja Henie), whose destination is the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec.
		Jack Oakie, who, in partnership with Cornel Wilde, operates a small, shabby hostelry called the Chateau Promenade, detours the party to his own place in order to build trade through the presence of the distinguished refugees.
		Romantic interest is woven in via the familiar triangle motif, with Henie chasing Wilde who temporarily devotes himself to a gal, representing a sports magazine with large circulation, in order to grab space for his hotel.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117796420?categoryid=31&cs=1 (238 words)

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