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Matty Kemp (story) and
Isabel Dawn (story) ...
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Release Date:
8 February 1954 (USA) more
Tagline:
THAT Picture! THAT Dance! - you've heard so much about! more
Plot:
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money. full summary | add synopsis
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Funnel Girl ?? more (13 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Jane Russell | ... | Mary 'Mame' Carson |
 | Gilbert Roland | ... | Pierre DuQuesne |
| Arthur Hunnicutt | ... | 'Waco' Mosby |
| Mary McCarty | ... | Annie Farrell |
| Joyce Mackenzie | ... | Myrtle Brown (as Joyce MacKenzie) |
| Rita Corday | ... | Celeste (as Paula Corday) |
| Scott Elliott | ... | Bill Harris |
| Craig Stevens | ... | Phil Barton |
| Kasey Rogers | ... | Katherine 'Katy' Hodges (as Laura Elliott) |
| Steven Geray | ... | François, Ship Steward |
 | John Wengraf | ... | Commodore Renard |
| Michael St. Angel | ... | George Hodges |
| Barbara Darrow | ... | Donna Adams |
| Barbara Dobbins | ... | Kitty Lee |
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102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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'Jane Russell''s dance to "Looking For Trouble" was shot in two versions. For the American release, she did her pelvic "bumps" behind a flower planter. For the European release, the "bumps" were done without anything hiding them. more
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Featured in Hollywood Uncensored (1987) more
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WELL! I'LL BE SWITCHED more
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I am so stunned by the hilarious vulgarity of THE FRENCH LINE it is all I can rave about. Stacked to the hilt with personally supervised costumes and showgirl extras by bra master Howard Hughes, notorious for making glamorous RKO into a burlesque production line, the casting couch there must have needed new springs by the time this technicolour-3D extravaganza hit screens Nationwide in 1954. Seemingly made for the knee slapping amusement of rich Texan hicks and crafted by trapped RKO professionals who must have sighed at having to work on such hillbilly antics, THE FRENCH LINE is an oceangoing girlie show wrought into some semblance of a farce. Jane Russell is as usual her spunky insolent self and gets to showcase her famous torpedo talents in outfits leaving nothing not spangled. Her two main numbers near the end of the film are the ones that caused the outrage in '54 and today are probably the best drag queen numbers one could imagine. A masterpiece of tawdry tinsel, swim outfits and frocks. You'll titter all through THE FRENCH LINE, rather like Howard must have all through production. Hilarious! Republic must have realized RKO wanted the bumpkin musical films and realized Judy Canova was no Jane Russell.