Video: 'The Court Jester' trailer

(Wednesday, February 1, 1956, doors opened at 9:30 a.m. EST) — The Court Jester, a musical-comedy film about a traveling actor who is mistaken for a medieval rebel, opened in New York City this morning at Paramount Theater, located at 43rd Street and Broadway on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City (it had been released in Japan on Dec. 24, 1955).

Video: 'The Court Jester (1956) - Movie' (9 clips)

Directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film starred Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker.