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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 · 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
Million Dollar Legs (1932) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
MILLION DOLLAR LEGS (Paramount, 1932), directed by Edward Cline, may have a a backstage musical sounding title to it revolving around sexy-legged chorus girls, but is actually a surreal comedy with all the elements of a slapstick silent Mack Sennett comedy, minus the Keystone Kops and bathing beauties.
Stronger than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a secret bound! It’s…. George! And George! And yet another George! That’ll have to serve as my silly introduction to you about the silly Million Dollar Legs, the story of an entire nation of super powered misfits named Klopstokia.
Jun 11, 2024 · The spirit of Sennett’s Keystone Cops infuses Million Dollar Legs not only in madcap energy, but also in its casting of some of the old gang, including Ben Turpin, the silent comic known for crossing his eyes, who plays a black-hatted-and-caped spy.
