Who Are Wheeler and Woolsey?
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were loved by literally millions of movie fans around the entire world in the 1930's. They did 21 feature films together and saved RKO Studios from bankruptcy. They were also RKO's biggest money makers when the RKO stable included Cary Grant, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Kathryn Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and a host of other greats.
Film
Spotting! The next scheduled Wheeler and Woolsey screening will be the
1931 feature film
CRACKED NUTS on December 11, 2007 at 4:45 AM Eastern (actually
Wednesday morning) on Turner Classic Movies
. One of Wheeler and Woolsey's most memorable films for a variety of reasons,
the film went through a rewrite two years later and was remade by MGM as "Duck Soup" with the Marx Bros. MGM's working title was "Cracked Ice", a bit too obvious a remake of "Cracked Nuts"; hence the different title.
"Cracked Nuts" was RKO's biggest moneymaker of 1931 and, with the release of several other W&W films that year, saved the studio from bankruptcy. It features stellar support from
Boris Karloff, Edna Mae Oliver, Ben ("Cross Eyes") Turpin, and a comedy routine later rewritten for Abbott & Costello as "Who's On First?". This film bears multiple viewings well and is one of the great comedy classics of the early '30's.
On December 18, 2007, Turner Classic Movies features TWO classic Wheeler and Woolsey movies: Kentucky Kernels (1934) featuring Noah Beery, Margaret Dumont and Spanky McFarland, and The Nitwits (1935) costarring a very young Betty Grable Tune in to TCM starting at 11:00 am!
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