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Louisiana Purchase

  • 19411941
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
477
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106,253
12,889
Bob Hope, Irène Bordoni, Victor Moore, and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
ComedyMusical
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
477
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
106,253
12,889
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Irving Cummings
    • Writers
      • Buddy G. DeSylva(short story)
      • Morrie Ryskind(play)
      • Jerome Chodorov
    • Stars
      • Bob Hope
      • Vera Zorina
      • Victor Moore
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Irving Cummings
    • Writers
      • Buddy G. DeSylva(short story)
      • Morrie Ryskind(play)
      • Jerome Chodorov
    • Stars
      • Bob Hope
      • Vera Zorina
      • Victor Moore
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 13User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 2 nominations total

    Photos13

    9213-2 "Louisiana Purchase" Raymond Walburn, Bob Hope, Donald MacBride, Frank Albertson 1941 Paramount
    Bob Hope and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Bob Hope, Kay Aldridge, Maxine Ardell, Joy Barlow, Karin Booth, Irène Bordoni, Rebel Randall, Barbara Britton, Dona Drake, Brooke Evans, Blanche Grady, Lynda Grey, Aileen Haley, Margaret Hayes, Shep Houghton, Donald Kerr, Louise La Planche, Patsy Mace, Victor Moore, Jetsy Parker, Jean Phillips, Phyllis Ruth, Barbara Slater, Eleanor Stewart, Ruth Swanson, Arlyne Varden, Jean Wallace, Lillian West, and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Bob Hope, Victor Moore, and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Bob Hope, Joy Barlow, Donald Kerr, Victor Moore, and Jack Norton in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Victor Moore and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Bob Hope and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Victor Moore in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Bob Hope, Kay Aldridge, Karin Booth, Irène Bordoni, Rebel Randall, Barbara Britton, Dona Drake, Brooke Evans, Blanche Grady, Lynda Grey, Margaret Hayes, Louise La Planche, Victor Moore, Barbara Slater, Eleanor Stewart, and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)
    Bob Hope, Irène Bordoni, Dona Drake, Victor Moore, and Vera Zorina in Louisiana Purchase (1941)

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    Bob Hope
    Bob Hope
    • Jim Taylor
    Vera Zorina
    Vera Zorina
    • Marina Von Minden
    Victor Moore
    Victor Moore
    • Sen. Oliver P. Loganberry
    Irène Bordoni
    Irène Bordoni
    • Madame Yvonne Bordelaise
    Dona Drake
    Dona Drake
    • Beatrice
    Raymond Walburn
    Raymond Walburn
    • Col. Davis Sr. aka Polar Bear
    Maxie Rosenbloom
    Maxie Rosenbloom
    • The Shadow aka Wilson
    Phyllis Ruth
    Phyllis Ruth
    • Emmy Lou
    Frank Albertson
    Frank Albertson
    • Robert Davis, Jr.
    Donald MacBride
    Donald MacBride
    • Capt. Pierre Whitfield
    Andrew Tombes
    Andrew Tombes
    • Dean Albert Manning
    Robert Warwick
    Robert Warwick
    • Speaker of the House
    Charles La Torre
    • Gaston, Waiter
    Charles Laskey
    • Danseur
    Emory Parnell
    Emory Parnell
    • Sam Horowitz, Lawyer
    Iris Meredith
    Iris Meredith
    • Lawyer's secretary
    Catherine Craig
    Catherine Craig
    • Saleslady
    Jack Norton
    Jack Norton
    • Jester
    • Director
      • Irving Cummings
    • Writers
      • Buddy G. DeSylva(short story)
      • Morrie Ryskind(play)
      • Jerome Chodorov
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    • Trivia
      Irène Bordoni and Vera Zorina both repeated their roles from the original Broadway stage version.
    • Quotes

      Sam: [looking at Marina] Boy, if she were black, she'd be beautiful!

    • Connections
      Version of Musical Comedy Time: Louisiana Purchase (1951)
    • Soundtracks
      LAWYER'S LETTER
      Written by Irving Berlin

      Sung by Emory Parnell

    User reviews13

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    5/10
    Truly Terrible
    Recently, I was reading one of Internet columnist Jeffrey Well's articles and he wondered what the appeal of Bing Crosby was and that he doesn't translate beyond his era. One can say the same of his partner in crime from that era, Bob Hope. Truly, what was the appeal of this fella? Most of his pictures are terrible, including the Road Movies. The ones I can stomach are the Paleface pictures. All Bob Hope ever did was deliver puns and innuendos laced as wisecracks rather than real comedy - punchlines with no punch. He was a spoofish of current pop culture which he uses so frequently that a lot of the wisecracks fly over your head once you are out of the era, no let's the year, not even that three months ago pop culture events. This movie is one of his further nonsense. As the trailer spieled, this an adaptation of a Broadway smash that has been running for two years but as soon as you see the movie, you know it has been warped beyond belief for the screen because nothing this flimsy could have run on broadway for two years lest two weeks. And you just can feel there is a lot of political humor that has been cut out, the Victor Moore character keeps referencing democrats and republicans in oblique terms that do not advance the movie and thus are not funny because the terra firma has been eviscerated. The plot - Hope is a state rep in the house who is set up as the fall man for a bunch of corrupt school board officers. Moore is the good to his bones senator sent to investigate the irregularities. Somebody'd going to jail and it ain't going to be Hope so he tries to blackmail the senator by photographing him in an uncompromising situation, to say. The girl for the task the Hungarian immigrant played by Zorina. That's that. There is a Mardi Gras scene that is an embarassment to all involved in the production, us as an audience and others who have not seen this movie. Musical numbers are lovely but numb. Why does this movie have musical numbers? No reason except a Hope picture must have some and Hope is in none of them. By the time he is doing a filibuster a la Jimmy Stewart in Mr Smith goes to Washington, you the viewer will be ready to kill him. What a shame!
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    • Apr 25, 2004

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    • Release date
      • December 31, 1941 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Oh, Louisiana
    • Filming locations
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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