Zeus

• Red Skelton
• Jean Hagen
• Charles Dingle

Audiences always roared with delight when Red Skelton went one-on-one with post-war life in The Yellow Cab, The Fuller Brush Man and other films.  In Half A Hero, the legendary comic took on a slice of 20th-century Americana that still resonates today: the suburbs.  Red plays Ben Dobson, a magazine writer whose boss approves of Ben because he lives in a cramped Manhattan apartment instead of "the slums of tomorrow": the 'burbs.  So, of course, when Ben moves his family to a sprawling housing development, he struggles (hilariously) to keep the fact a secret.  Jean Hagen, a year after her iconic portrayal of the itsy-voiced screen siren in Singin' In The Rain, plays Ben's long-suffering wife, and singer Polly Bergen make a guest appearance with a torrid nightclub-scene rendition of "Love."