The Court Jester

…Crosby as a song-and-dance team; The Court Jester (1956), a swashbuckler spoof and perhaps Kaye’s most-renowned film; and Merry Andrew (1958), in which Kaye portrayed a mild-mannered archeology professor who becomes a circus performer.

…in A Lawless Street (1955), The Court Jester (1956), and The Long, Hot Summer (1958). Her most acclaimed screen performance came as Laurence Harvey’s evil incestuous mother in director John Frankenheimer’s Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate (1962). For this film Lansbury received her third Oscar nomination. Her later movies…