The Great Comic Duo of American Film (1929 - 1937)
Today is Friday, July 03rd, 2009
Hi folks! Just a quick note to let you know that in honor of Superbowl Weekend, Turner Classic Movies will be running football movies *all day* on Friday, January 30th - including a repeat performance of The Cowboy Quarterback at 3:45PM Eastern time. This 1939 Warner Brothers picture features Bert Wheeler, in his first solo [...]
Hi folks! Just a quick note to let you know that in honor of Superbowl Weekend, Turner Classic Movies will be running football movies *all day* on Friday, January 30th - including a repeat performance of The Cowboy Quarterback at 3:45PM Eastern time. This 1939 Warner Brothers picture features Bert Wheeler, in his first solo [...]
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Wheeler and Woolsey’s third movie together was intended to equal the success of 1929’s Rio Rita. It starred longtime leading lady Bebe Daniels, who came to prominence in 1915 as Harold Lloyd’s love interest in his string of hit comedies. Dixiana was a lavish and expensive musical with a color sequence near the end [...]
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Wheeler & Woolsey’s most often remade film (three or four times) was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name. RKO paid composers George and Ira Gershwin to even write a new song exclusively for the film. Rumor has long been the the final product was compromised by then-studio head David [...]
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Bert Wheeler’s first movie since the death of Robert Woolsey and his last film as a leading man. It is best remembered for his comic vocal performance of “Mother MacCree” with Eddie Foy Jr., another old vaudevillian and a personal friend of Wheeler. Overall, the film isn’t the best example of [...]
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This was Wheeler and Woolsey’s tenth film together and a favorite among fans and critics alike. It also introduced 15 year old Betty Grable to her first major film role as Wheeler’s love interest. The film is endlessly funny and was the source for gags and situations in roughly six Three Stooges [...]
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Rio Rita was adapted from Ziegfeld’s hit musical of 1928. The stage version catapulted Wheeler and Woolsey to stardom after years of moderate success as solo performers. This 1929 film made the team movie stars, eclipsing the top billed Bebe Daniels and John Boles, both long established film stars.
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Dixiana poster
There are no fewer than four Wheeler and Woolsey movies coming up in next six weeks, and one film starring Bert Wheeler.
On September 3, 2008, Turner Classic Movies will be celebrating the start of football season by showing Hold ‘Em Jail, the 1932 prison football romp co-starring Edna Mae Oliver (one of our all [...]
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