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English. Million Dollar Legs is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields, directed by Edward F. Cline, produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz (co-writer of Citizen Kane) and B.P. Schulberg, co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and released by Paramount Pictures.
Sep 16, 2019 · 59:37. Million Dollar Legs. by. Herman J Mankiewicz (uncredited) Topics. comedies, screwball comedies, farce, satire, pre-code, 1932 Olympics, W C Fields, Jack Oakie, Andy Clyde, Susan Fleming, Lyda Roberti, Ben Turpin, Hugh Herbert, Billy Gilbert (uncredited) Publisher. Paramount.
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Introducing second-billed W.C. Fields, president of Klopstokia, dueling with a Dictaphone when he’s intercepted by smitten salesman Tweeny (Jack Oakie), and we soon discover his crush (Susan Fleming) is the president’s daughter, in Million Dollar Legs, 1932, from a story by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
- Edward Cline
- Jack Oakie
Feb 17, 2019 · A prime example of the vaudeville-influenced lunatic comedy of the early ’30s will be getting a rare screening, presented by the Boston-area’s award-winning film-and-television series Channel Zero. It’s the 1932 Paramount picture Million Dollar Legs, which will screen in the MicroCinema at the Somerville Theatre on Friday, Feb. 22. The ...
Million Dollar Legs is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Oakie and W. C. Fields, directed by Edward F. Cline, produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz (co-writer of Citizen Kane) and B. P. Schulberg, co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and released by Paramount Pictures.
A surrealist expedition into a mythical world which was actually filmed in the L.A. Coliseum using facilities for the 1932 Olympics. Fields and Jack Oakie at the top of their games.
- Comedy
