Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.
James P. Burtis
- Sweeney
- (as James Burtis)
Stanley Blystone
- Race Driver
- (uncredited)
True Boardman
- Sports Announcer
- (uncredited)
Marjorie Brandon
- Animal-Print Model
- (uncredited)
June Brewster
- Mr. Clark's Secretary
- (uncredited)
Thelma Bruskoff
- Chorus Girl
- (uncredited)
Marion Byron
- Page Girl
- (uncredited)
Jean Carmen
- Blonde
- (uncredited)
Nat Carr
- Gas Station Proprietor
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring the song "Keep On Doing What You're Doing", Dorothy Lee is dropped on her back. Although she carries on, and finishes the number, the injury to her spine left her in pain for the rest of her life.
- GoofsDuring the "Keep On Doing What You're Doing" number Thelma Todd loses the bottom two buttons from her dress. One can be seen flying off before she goes out to the balcony. The other is lost outside. She starts the dance with one button centered at the top and six down the side. As the dance ends, there are only four left on the side.
- Quotes
Miss Frisby: Two minds and a single thought.
Dr. Dudley: Yes, it's about all they can handle at one time.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
- SoundtracksKeep Romance Alive
(1933) (uncredited)
Written by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar
Sung by Ruth Etting
Danced by chorus girls twice
Danced by Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey
Played often in the score
Featured review
Mr. Wheeler & Mr. Woolsey Invite You To Join Them In A Little Light Entertainment
Two zany scam artists find it's all HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY! when they meet the curvaceous owner of Maiden America Beauty Products and her lovely female employees.
Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler is the short guy with curly hair; Robert Woolsey is the bespectacled fellow with the cigar) star in this often hilarious film. The Boys were a perfect comedy duo and their movies are always great fun to watch (here they try to promote flavored lipsticks and get involved in a cross-country auto race, while keeping one jump ahead of the law ). It is indeed a pity that these very talented comics are all but forgotten now.
Cute little Dorothy Lee returns as Wheeler's perennial love interest. The beautiful & tragic Thelma Todd, a very gifted comedienne in her own right, puts the spark in Woolsey's eye.
Movie mavens will spot an unbilled Bobby Watson, who gets one funny line as a Dance Director.
Director Mark Sandrich keeps the plot moving at a frantic pace throughout. Some of the sights & situations push the borders of good taste in this pre-Production Code movie.
The Boys, Miss Lee & Hot Toddy do a wild burlesque of Diaghilev during their performance of `Just Keep On Doing What You're Doing'. Singer Ruth Etting drops by long enough to trill `Keep Romance Alive' at a radio broadcast featuring ungarmented bathing models.
And, yes, those really are frogs climbing out of the race car's radiator...
Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler is the short guy with curly hair; Robert Woolsey is the bespectacled fellow with the cigar) star in this often hilarious film. The Boys were a perfect comedy duo and their movies are always great fun to watch (here they try to promote flavored lipsticks and get involved in a cross-country auto race, while keeping one jump ahead of the law ). It is indeed a pity that these very talented comics are all but forgotten now.
Cute little Dorothy Lee returns as Wheeler's perennial love interest. The beautiful & tragic Thelma Todd, a very gifted comedienne in her own right, puts the spark in Woolsey's eye.
Movie mavens will spot an unbilled Bobby Watson, who gets one funny line as a Dance Director.
Director Mark Sandrich keeps the plot moving at a frantic pace throughout. Some of the sights & situations push the borders of good taste in this pre-Production Code movie.
The Boys, Miss Lee & Hot Toddy do a wild burlesque of Diaghilev during their performance of `Just Keep On Doing What You're Doing'. Singer Ruth Etting drops by long enough to trill `Keep Romance Alive' at a radio broadcast featuring ungarmented bathing models.
And, yes, those really are frogs climbing out of the race car's radiator...
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- Ron Oliver
- Nov 10, 2000
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Box office
- Budget
- $336,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 8 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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