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Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934 – RKO)

Next showing: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:30 AM Eastern Turner Classic Movies Runtime:  67 Minutes One of the funniest and best of Wheeler & Woolsey’s musical comedy movies, full of scantily clad dancing girls, double-entendre jokes, and the sort of high paced action and physical humor that made the team wildly popular, especially among younger [...]

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Cockeyed Cavaliers (1935 – RKO)

Next showing: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:45 PM Eastern Turner Classic Movies Runtime:  72 Minutes With Dorothy Lee, Noah Berry Sr., Thelma Todd. Director: Mark Sandrich Many critics (including Leonard Maltin) and fans alike consider this to be W & W’s greatest movie. While it’s hard to pick favorites, this is certainly among the best. [...]

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Upcoming Wheeler & Woolsey Movies

It’s been a while, but TCM has finally added some Wheeler & Woolsey films to their upcoming schedule.  First up is Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934 – RKO)  starring our favorite duo, along with frequent co-star Dorothy Lee, Thelma Todd, Ruth Etting – and an extremely young Betty Grable in an extremely small part!  Showing Wednesday, [...]

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Dixiana (1930 – RKO)

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 of [...]

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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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Rio Rita (1929 – RKO)

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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