Senator Beauregard Claghorn
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It's a Joke, Son! is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff (in his final directorial role in a film) featuring radio comedian Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, a character on Fred Allen's radio program and later the inspiration for the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn.
It's a Joke, Son!: Directed by Benjamin Stoloff. With Kenny Delmar, Una Merkel, June Lockhart, Kenneth Farrell. When the Daughters of Dixie nominate a candidate for State Senator, the local political machine run by Northerners fears its candidate will be defeated, and chooses her husband as a candidate in order to split the anti-machine vote.
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- Comedy
- Benjamin Stoloff
- 1947-01-15
The funniest man of the year in the happiest hit in years!When the Daughters of Dixie nominate a candidate for State Senator, the local political machine run...
- 63 min
- 35.7K
- Cult Cinema Classics
It's no joke that this is tops for laughs! The first Eagle-Lion film stars Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, his "Allen's Alley" resident-character heard on Fred Allen's radio program.
- 63 min
- 57.5K
- Cult Cinema Classics
Sep 1, 2018 · When the Daughters of Dixie nominate Magnolia Claghorn as a candidate for State Senator, the local political machine run by Northerners fears its candidate will be defeated. Through the Claghorns...
- 63 min
- 85.8K
- sallis65
Jul 27, 2004 · The plot has a little different spin than the usual cops-n-robbers or romance and moves along at a good pace. If you don't get it, you didn't have it son. Just keep your eye on the ball, boy, and you'll to just fine. Get it, ball boy!.. you got better chance at batten cotton, I say cotton than homers son...
The first Eagle-Lion film stars Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, his "Allen's Alley" resident-character heard on Fred Allen's radio program. Claghorn was a blustery, one-man-Chamber-of-Commerce for all things Southern, who had no tolerence for anything north of the Mason-Dixon line,...
