Star Spangled Salesman
Star Spangled Salesman is a 1968 American short promotional film directed by Norman Maurer and Wingate Smith, starring celebrities including Carl Reiner, Carol Burnett, Milton Berle and The Three Stooges. It was written by Bruce Howard and produced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to promote the sale of U.S. Savings Bonds. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Premise
, as a fictional version of himself, is assigned to get his showbiz colleagues interested in enrolling in a payroll plan that is tied to the purchase of savings bonds.Cast
- Carl Reiner as himself
- Carol Burnett as Miss Grebs
- Milton Berle as studio president
- Howard Morris as himself
- Joe DeRita as Curly Joe
- Larry Fine as Larry
- Moe Howard as Moe
- John Banner as chef
- Werner Klemperer as chef's boss
- Rafer Johnson as telephone repairman
- Tim Conway as telephone repairman
- Harry Morgan as TV cop
- Jack Webb as security man
- Alexandra Hay as blonde girl