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Lovely, talented and famous!
Stage star Constance Shaw is everything pants presser Joe Reynolds can’t have. Then one day, Constance decides to get back at her two-timing beau by marrying Joe.
The film’s title comes from a Red Skelton catchphrase, the storyline comes from Buster Keaton’s Spite Marriage and the fun comes from everywhere in this pratfalling "musicomedy" directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Eleanor Powell dances. Lena Horne sings. Jimmy Dorsey swings. Hazel Scott sears the ivories. And Red (as Joe) doods the rest with routines that include his hilarious attempt to put his blotto honeymoon bride to bed and—in a nod to the era—with heroics that pit him against Nazi saboteurs. They’re gonna get a whippin’!
Original Release
09/01/1943
US Release
09/01/1943
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Red Skelton | Joseph Rivington Renolds / Joseph 'Joe' Rivington Renolds |
Eleanor Powell | Constance Shaw / Miss Constance 'Connie' Shaw |
Richard Ainley | Larry West |
Patricia Dane | Suretta Brenton |
Sam Levene | Ed Jackson |
Thurston Hall | Kenneth Lawlor / Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor |
Lena Horne | Lena Horne / Herself |
Hazel Scott | Hazel Scott / Herself |
Jimmy Dorsey | Jimmy Dorsey / Himself (as Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra) |
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra | Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra |
Directors
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Red Skelton | Joseph Rivington Renolds / Joseph 'Joe' Rivington Renolds |
Eleanor Powell | Constance Shaw / Miss Constance 'Connie' Shaw |
Richard Ainley | Larry West |
Patricia Dane | Suretta Brenton |
Sam Levene | Ed Jackson |
Thurston Hall | Kenneth Lawlor / Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor |
Lena Horne | Lena Horne / Herself |
Hazel Scott | Hazel Scott / Herself |
Jimmy Dorsey | Jimmy Dorsey / Himself (as Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra) |
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra | Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra |
Helen O'Connell | Helen O'Connell / Herself |
Bob Eberly | Bob Eberly / Himself |
John Hodiak | Roy Hartwood |
Butterfly McQueen | Annette |
Marjorie Gateson | Mrs. Spelvin / Mrs. Alice Spelvin |
Andrew Tombes | Mr. Spelvin / Mr. Alfred Spelvin |
Morris Ankrum | Brinker |
Charles Judels | Stage Manager |
Mitchell Lewis | Greek Taffy Man |
Spec O'Donnell | Autograph Seeker |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jack Cummings | Producer |