Editing Fred Allen (section)

==Film==
Concurrent with his radio duties, Allen made occasional motion pictures by appearing in seven full-length features and three shorts between 1929 and 1952. His first film, filmed by [[Paramount Pictures]] at its New York studio, was ''The Installment Collector'' (1929), a nine-minute adaptation of one of his vaudeville acts in which he remits a succession of personal articles to an insistent debt collector. Allen followed it with two shorts for [[Vitaphone]], also filmed in New York. Allen's first feature film was the 1935 [[Dick Powell]] musical comedy ''[[Thanks a Million]]'', which ''The New York Times'' reviewed by naming only Allen in its headline.<ref>Andre Sennwald, The New York Times, ''Movie Review: "Thanks a Million," an Amusing Political Lampoon With Fred Allen, at the Center Theatre.'' Nov 14, 1935.</ref> In 1940, ''[[Love Thy Neighbor (1940 film)|Love Thy Neighbor]]'' played off the comic feud with Jack Benny.<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82058/love-thy-neighbor ''Love Thy Neighbor'' (1940) Overview: ''Love Thy Neighbor'']</ref> Allen's sole leading role was as flea circus impresario Fred F. Trumble Floogle in the frenetic ''[[It's in the Bag!]]'', a loose adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's novel ''[[The Twelve Chairs]]''.<ref>Joseph Jon Lanthier, ''DVD Review: "It's in the Bag"'' Slant Magazine, Jan 20, 2023.</ref>