Cupid Takes a Holiday (1938)

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Director:

William Watson

Writer:

Billy K. Wells (writer)

Release Date:

4 February 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Comedy

Plot:

Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old...

Cast

Danny Kaye	...	Nikolai Nikolaevich (bride-seeker)
Douglas Leavitt	...	Owner
Estelle Jayne	...	Prospective Bride
Ruth Lockwood	...	Prospective Bride
Paulene Myers	...	Dianna, the Maid (as Pauline Myers)
George Watts	...	Jeeves, the Butler

Runtime:

15 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Educational Films Corporation of America

Trivia:

An old nitrate copy of this comedy short, without any credit titles at the start, was recently identified in the collection of the Danish Film Museum. The movie turns out to have been re-used in three later feature-length compilations, _Birth of a Star (1945)_, _Sound of Laughter (1962)_, and "Danny Kaye" [biography] in the "American Masters" series for PBS-TV (1997). After the latter inclusion, Maurice H. Zouary's Movietronics company sued PBS, claiming that PBS had included footage from "Cupid" in its Kaye biography without obtaining a license from Movietronics (which claimed ownership of "Cupid").