Whoopee! : a musical comedy of the great wide West

DVD 2013

A musical sparked by Cantor's performance as a hyper-hypochondriac come West for a cure. He offers to give a ride to Sally, a woman in love with a Native American of mixed descent, who is running from an unwanted wedding with another man. But everyone thinks that they have eloped and they pursue the couple. Features some of Busby Berkeley's most fanciful choreography.

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Davis, Owen, 1874-1956 Film adaptations

Illness anxiety disorder Patients Drama

Indigenous peoples North America Mixed descent Drama

Interracial marriage Drama

Popular music United States 1921-1930 Drama

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama

Young women West (U.S.) Drama

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Comedy films Drama Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Musical films Video recordings for the hearing impaired Western films

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Archive collection Samuel Goldwyn classics Samuel Goldwyn classics (Warner Bros. Entertainment) WB Home Entertainment Group archive collection

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Description:

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
optical mono Dolby
videodisc
NTSC
video file DVD
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1930
Distributed by the Samuel Goldwyn Company
NTSC; all regions; 4:3 fullscreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono
Based upon Owen Davis' play, the nervous wreck
This disc is a recorded DVD and may fail to play on some DVD equipment
Photography, Lee Garmes, Ray Rennaman, Gregg Toland ; editor, Stuart Heisler ; musical direction, Alfred Newman ; music, Walter Donaldson ; lyrics, Gus Kahn ; choreography, Busby Berkeley
Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, John Rutherford, Walter Law, Spencer Charters
Music played by George Olsen and his Music
DVD-R

Control Number:

3189753

UPC:

883316737118

Other Authors:

Berkeley, Busby, 1895-1976
Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964
Charters, Spencer, 1875-1943
Conselman, William, 1896-1940
Davis, Owen, 1874-1956. Nervous wreck
Donaldson, Walter, 1893-1947
Freeland, Thornton, 1898-1987
Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974
Gregory, Paul, -1942
Hunt, Eleanor
Kahn, Gus, 1886-1941
McGuire, William Anthony, 1885-1940
Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970
Olsen, George, 1893-1971
Samuel Goldwyn Co
Shutta, Ethel, 1896-1976
United Artists Corporation
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Ziegfeld, Flo, 1869-1932

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