
Whoopee!
From Samuel Goldwyn Productions
90 Blazing Boistrous minutes of the Funniest Guy that ever made a camera crack wide open with Laughter
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Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
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Cast & crew
Directed by Thornton Freeland
Eddie CantorHenry Williams
Ethel ShuttaMary Custer
Paul GregoryWanenis
Eleanor HuntSally Morgan
Jack RutherfordSheriff Bob Wells
Walter LawJud Morgan
Spencer ChartersJerome Underwood
Albert HackettChester Underwood
Chief CaupolicanBlack EagleLou-Scha-EnyaMatafay
Claire DoddGoldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Jean FenwickGoldwyn Girl (uncredited)Images · 6
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CinemaSerfFeb 15, 2024
Now this is a film very much of it's time, so anyone with sensitivities to black-facing etc. might wish to avoid. What the film is actually about centres on the story of a sheriff "Bob" (John Rutherford) who is loved up with "Sally" (Eleanor Hunt). They are to be married, but she's got eyes for "Wanenis" (Paul Gregory) and needless to say nobody is too keen on any form of inter-racial horseplay! Anyway, she does a bunk with the scene-stealing hypochondriac "Henry" (Eddie Cant… Read more
or) and we proceed to see them pursued by her fiancé and his infatuated nurse "Mary" (Ethel Shutta). Cantor is on decent enough form here as the man who has enough imaginary illnesses and phobias to keep an infirmary busy for a year, and his dynamic with the dewey-eyed "Mary" is quite fun at times. He also delivers solid renditions of Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson's "Making Whoopee" and "My Baby Just Cares for Me" that really do help this otherwise predictable ninety minutes along memorably. Nope, there's not really much jeopardy with the romantically comedic plot, and the presentation is a bit episodic and certainly theatrical at times, but there's just about enough humour to keep it going for ninety minutes and it's a telling reminder of just what kept our grandparents entertained - and of just what was acceptable back then, too!
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