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7.9/10   47 votes
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Director:
Leo McCarey
Writers:
Percy Heath (writer)
George Marion Jr. (writer)
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Release Date:
16 August 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical more
Tagline:
Paramount's wild, merry, mad hilarious farce!
Plot:
Dress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina... more | add synopsis
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Total Nonsense and Totally Wonderful more (3 total)

Cast

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Jack Oakie ... Voltaire McGinnis

Jeanette MacDonald ... Joan Wood
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher ... Jerry, King of the Island
James Hall ... Wally Wendell
William Austin ... Basil Pistol

Kay Francis ... Constance Cook
David Newell ... Chief Officer Williams
Charles Sellon ... Wallace Wendell Sr.
Eugene Pallette ... Deputy Sheriff 'Careful' Cuthbert
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Runtime:
USA:77 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

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Trivia:
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
Quotes:
[Jerry had been the only man on an island populated by women.]
Jerry: It was one of the Virgin Islands, but it drifted.
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Soundtrack:
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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Total Nonsense and Totally Wonderful, 20 June 2009
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Author: drednm

This musical comedy defies its own plot and meanders on its merry way from Broadway to an ocean liner headed for Brazil but gets sunk, shipwrecking the stars on a remote island inhabited by natives who have been turned into showgirls by the previous shipwreck victim! With that said, there's little point in trying to follow this film but just sit back and enjoy the funny and sexy Jeanette MacDonald (yes she sings too) as she is romanced by James Hall (he also sings). Hall is mostly forgotten now but was a big star in late silent and early talkies (HELL'S ANGELS). Jack Oakie does to production numbers that are lively and well edited. Kay Francis shows up as an heiress and sings the lovely (I've Got a Yen for You). On the island they meet Skeets Gallagher who has turned the local girls into showgirls (Virginia Bruce and Iris Adrian among them).

Also on hand are David Newell and and funny William Austin as Pistol. Then there's Eugene Palette as head of the moving crew that is repossessing MacDonald's furniture.

MacDonald, Oakie, and Francis are terrific.

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