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Stanley Roberts

1916 – 1982 · Active 1935–2016
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Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball

1942
Writer

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.

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Filmography

50 credits
2010s 1 credit
2016
Movie ★ 7.0
1930s 1 credit
1935
Movie ★ 6.2
Crew Credits
1970s 3 credits
1978
TV ★ 7.7
1975
TV ★ 7.8
1972
Banacek Writer
TV ★ 8.5
1960s 3 credits
1969
Movie ★ 10.0
1966
Movie ★ 4.9
1961
Movie ★ 6.8
1950s 9 credits
1959
TV ★ 7.0
1956
Movie ★ 8.2
1954
Movie ★ 7.2
1952
Movie ★ 7.0
1951
Up Front Writer
Movie ★ 7.0
1951
Movie ★ 7.0
1950
Movie ★ 6.4
1950
Louisa Screenplay
Movie ★ 6.5
1950
Louisa Story
Movie ★ 6.5
1940s 15 credits
1947
Movie ★ 6.8
1945
Movie ★ 5.9
1945
Movie ★ 5.9
1945
Movie ★ 8.0
1944
Movie ★ 8.0
1943
Movie ★ 7.0
1943
Movie ★ 7.0
1943
Hi'ya, Sailor Screenplay
Movie ★ 6.5
1942
Who Done It? Screenplay
Movie ★ 6.9
1942
Movie ★ 6.9
1942
Movie ★ 7.0
1942
Movie ★ 5.3
1942
Movie ★ 5.3
1941
Movie ★ 7.5
1940
Movie ★ 9.0
1930s 18 credits
1939
Movie ★ 5.0
1939
Movie ★ 5.8
1939
Movie ★ 7.0
1938
Movie ★ 5.2
1938
Movie ★ 7.5
1938
Movie ★ 6.0
1938
Movie ★ 7.0
1938
Movie ★ 10.0
1938
Movie ★ 6.0
1938
Movie ★ 8.0
1938
Movie ★ 5.7
1938
Movie ★ 8.0
1938
Movie ★ 10.0
1938
Movie ★ 4.7
1938
Prairie Moon Screenplay
Movie ★ 10.0
1937
Young Dynamite Screenplay
Movie ★ 4.5
1937
Movie ★ 6.3
1937
Movie ★ 9.0