Harriet Gibson

Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.

Her first television special to feature guest-stars, The Belle of 14th Street celebrates, in ways both comedic and heartfelt, "The Golden Age of Song". A marvelous showcase for such evergreens as Sophie Tucker's "Some Of These Days", "How About Me" (written by "a young new talent" Irving Berlin), the poignant "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", and the sublime "My Buddy" - all classics of the vaudeville era, reinvented by "the greatest star" of our time.

Dans les années 1920. Rudy Hickman (Gene Wilder) est renvoyé de la boulangerie où il travaillait car il a des tics : il tire la langue aux clients, il inverse ses mots et a des crises de laryngite, tout cela dû à la nervosité. Rudy décide alors de partir pour Los Angeles. En effet, Mr Zitz (Dom DeLuise), le directeur de la "Rainbow Studio" à Los Angeles, afin de faire concurrence à la Paramount (avec Rudolph Valentino), décide de faire un concours : le concours du plus grand séducteur du monde. Rudy se rend donc dans cette grande ville avec sa femme, Annie (Carol Kane). Mais Rudy ne sait pas que sa bien-aimée est amoureuse du célèbre Rudolph Valentino, qu’elle a déjà rencontré et qu’elle va essayer de retrouver.

Two scheming ne'er-do-wells find a lost nuclear weapon in the ocean near Los Angeles. They decide to light-heartedly try and blackmail the city by asking for money from each citizen. This arouses the attention of the local authorities.