Scared Stiff (1953 film)

Scared Stiff
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeorge Marshall
Screenplay by
Based onThe Ghost Breaker
(1909 play)
by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard
Produced byHal B. Wallis
Starring
CinematographyErnest Laszlo
Edited byWarren Low
Music byLeith Stevens
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • April 27, 1953 (1953-04-27)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$3.5 million (US)[1]
811,256 admissions (France)[2]

Scared Stiff is a 1953 American supernatural fiction-themed comedy horror semi-musical film, directed by George Marshall and starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. One of the 17 films made by the Martin and Lewis team, it was released on April 27, 1953 by Paramount Pictures. It is the fourth screen adaptation of the 1909 play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, previously filmed under that title in 1914 and 1922 and as The Ghost Breakers in 1940.

Scared Stiff was Carmen Miranda's final film appearance, as she died two years later in August 1955.

  1. ^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1953", Variety, January 13, 1954.
  2. ^ Box office information for film in France at Box Office Story

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