Always Leave Them Laughing

Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them Laughing hit the screens. Though his character name is Kip Cooper, Uncle Miltie more or less plays himself: an ambitious comedian who rises to fame by stealing other ...more

Rarely-seen and in some ways only average, Always Leave Them Laughing is nevertheless rather fascinating. At heart, Laughing is nothing more than an other backstage musical, but it's different in that the main character is kind of hard to like and that he occasionally verges on being morally challenged. None of this is played up, really, but it's there -- largely because the character is performed by Milton Berle, whose comic persona is a bit selfish and shady. One's reaction to Laughing is ...more