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Moxie Slaight is on the air, teaming with his lovely partner to send jokes and tunes into the living rooms of mainstream USA. But America is tuning out.
Moxie needs a fresh gag writer to spark his radio show…and an opportunistic agent sets Moxie up with a hot new penman. And where does this creative scribe find his material? From the well-thumbed pages of old joke books!
Jimmy Durante delivers plenty of Moxie and future Mexican Spitfire series star Lupe Velez is his cohort in this free-wheeling sendup of the era’s radio days.
Original Release
05/11/1934
US Release
05/11/1934
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jimmy Durante | Moxie / Moxie Straight |
Lupe Velez | Vera / Vera Mendez |
Norman Foster | Nick Montgomery / Fleming |
William Gargan | Georgie / George Ross |
Marian Nixon | Sylvia / Sylvia Montgomery |
Eugene Pallette | Sourwood / Sourwood Sam |
Sterling Holloway | Fleming / Elmer Fleming |
Minna Gombell | Miss LaSeur / Miss Le Seur |
Leila Bennett | Miss Mary Hoffman |
Franklin Pangborn | Mr. Bailey |
Directors
Writers
Maurine Dallas Watkins, Ralph Spence, Milton Raison, Jack Harvey, Robert T. Colwell, Robert A. Simon
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jimmy Durante | Moxie / Moxie Straight |
Lupe Velez | Vera / Vera Mendez |
Norman Foster | Nick Montgomery / Fleming |
William Gargan | Georgie / George Ross |
Marian Nixon | Sylvia / Sylvia Montgomery |
Eugene Pallette | Sourwood / Sourwood Sam |
Sterling Holloway | Fleming / Elmer Fleming |
Minna Gombell | Miss LaSeur / Miss Le Seur |
Leila Bennett | Miss Mary Hoffman |
Franklin Pangborn | Mr. Bailey |
Berton Churchill | Mr. Rivers |
Irene Franklin | Mrs. Figg |
Jackie Searl | Robin Figg / Robin Figg (as Jackie Searle) |
Stanley Fields | Pussy |
Tom Kennedy | Junior |
The Mills Brothers | The Mills Brothers |
Donald Mills | Donald Mills / Donald Mills (as The Mills Brothers) |
Harry Mills | Harry Mills / Harry Mills (as The Mills Brothers) |
Herbert Mills | Herbert Mills / Herbert Mills (as The Mills Brothers) |
John Mills | John Mills / John Mills (as The Mills Brothers) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Pandro S. Berman | Executive Producer |
H.N. Swanson | Producer |