All Posts Tagged With: "1932"

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Girl Crazy (1932 – RKO)

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 Selznick’s constant [...]

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Hold ‘Em Jail (1932 – RKO)

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 shorts made several [...]

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