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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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Wheeler and Woolsey Movies on TV

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 [...]

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