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Hellzapoppin' (1941) 7.4
Ole and Chick are making a movie, but the director is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer, who outlines them an absurd story. They have to support Jeff and Kitty in setting ... See full summary » Director:H.C. Potter |
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Nominated for 1 Oscar.
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Ole Olsen | ... |
Ole Olsen
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Chic Johnson | ... |
Chic Johnson
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Martha Raye | ... |
Betty Johnson
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Quimby
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Jane Frazee | ... |
Kitty Rand
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Robert Paige | ... |
Jeff Hunter
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Pepi
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Richard Lane | ... |
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Lewis Howard | ... |
Woody Taylor
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Clarence Kolb | ... |
Andrew Rand
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Mrs. Rand
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Louie
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Harry Selby
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Frank Darien | ... |
Man calling for Mrs. Jones
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Catherine Johnson | ... |
Lena, Lady looking for Oscar
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Ole and Chick are making a movie, but the director is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer, who outlines them an absurd story. They have to support Jeff and Kitty in setting up a musical revue in their garden and want to bring it up on Broadway. If Jeff is successful he can marry Kitty. But there is his rich friend Woody, who also loves Kitty, Chick's sister Betty, who's in love with a false Russian count, and detective Quimby. They all make the thing very complicated for Ole and Chick. After some mistakes they think that Kitty isn't the right girl for Jeff and they start sabotaging the show, but the Broadway producer is impressed and signs the contract. That's the story the writer tells them. For this he's sued by the director. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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nonsense | film in film | love triangle | musical stage production | private detective |Taglines:
Best dance scenes and wildest cinematic tricks for its time! See more »Genres:
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26 December 1941 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
De studio draait zot See more »Company Credits
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Harry Selby: How many rooms?
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Lyrics by Don Raye
Music by Gene de Paul
Sung by The Six Hits (uncredited)
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Dan Rowan and Dick Martin cited this movie as the main inspiration for the style of their comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. See more »Goofs
Betty picks up a rifle with a bayonet attached, but in the next shot it's a double-barreled shotgun. See more »Quotes
Chic Johnson: How much do you charge for haunting houses?Harry Selby: How many rooms?
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"......any similarity between HELLZAPOPPIN' and a motion picture is purely coincidental." See more »Soundtracks
"Hellzapoppin'"Lyrics by Don Raye
Music by Gene de Paul
Sung by The Six Hits (uncredited)
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This movie pops up regularly on TV or at revue cinemas and I'm always surprised at how many youngsters are familiar with it.
Olsen and Johnson never had the following of Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello but they were capable vaudeville comics who made a few movies, Hellzapoppin and Crazy House are the best remembered. Hellzapoppin is the a much sanitized film version of Nat Perrin's famous stage revue.
The jokes come fast and furious, some of them are very dated now and some were never very funny to begin with, but you don't have time to analyze, you're into the next before you know it. There are some familiar faces Misha Auer, who had a long career playing the same character (a Russian aristocrat with dubious credentials), the loud and brassy Martha Raye and the very funny Hugh Herbert with his "yoo-hoo's" and mumbled asides the audience. The special effects were innovative for their time.
As brief respites from the madness there are a number of variety acts, synchronized swimming, crazy diving, a few pleasant songs with the corny lyrics typical of the period and the fantastic dancing of the Harlem Congeroo Dancers which even today is greeted by gasps of amazement and applause.
Well you can't say the maker's of this movie weren't trying to entertain.