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The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 2 wins total
Leif Erickson
- Bob Hayes
- (as Leif Erikson)
Virginia Vale
- Joan Fielding
- (as Dorothy Howe)
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsNear the end of the movie the helmsman said that the S.S. Gigantic was diesel powered. That would mean that the liner's proper name would be MV (Motor Vessel) Gigantic as opposed to SS (Stream Ship) Gigantic.
- Quotes
First reporter: Say, do you know anything about electricity?
S.B. Bellows: My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at State Prison.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood and the Stars: The Fabulous Musicals (1963)
- SoundtracksThis Little Ripple Had Rhythm
(uncredited)
Music by Ralph Rainger
Performed by Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra
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Lots of mainly young and beautiful stars of the thirties appear in this movie. Dorothy Lamour and Shirley Ross are knockouts with the zany Martha Raye as a comic foil. This is a great movie for black and white buffs.
Some classic scenes in this movie:
W. C. Fields in his best golf playing scenes ever.
Martha Raye hugging and puffing with her big mouth against a sail to keep a life raft sailing toward a big ocean liner.
Kirsten Flagstad from the Metropolitan opera delivering a Wagner aria.
But the piece de resistance is Shirley and Bob singing what would later become Bob Hope's Theme song, "Thanks for the Memory."
Although not listed in the cast, I saw Lucille Ball, probably with the most lines of any of her thirties' movies.
Some classic scenes in this movie:
W. C. Fields in his best golf playing scenes ever.
Martha Raye hugging and puffing with her big mouth against a sail to keep a life raft sailing toward a big ocean liner.
Kirsten Flagstad from the Metropolitan opera delivering a Wagner aria.
But the piece de resistance is Shirley and Bob singing what would later become Bob Hope's Theme song, "Thanks for the Memory."
Although not listed in the cast, I saw Lucille Ball, probably with the most lines of any of her thirties' movies.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Radioparaden 1938
- Filming locations
- Eastern Service Studios, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA(sequence: Kirsten Flagstad aria)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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