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Whoopee! (film) Whoopee! is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy musical Western film photographed in two-color Technicolor. It was directed by Thornton Freeland and stars Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta and Eleanor Hunt. The film's plot closely follows that of the 1928 stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld .
Whoopee!: Directed by Thornton Freeland. With Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt. Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Thornton Freeland
- 1930-10-05
Whoopee! was shot in the two-strip Technicolor process. The Variety reviewer called it "the finest job Technicolor has set forth to date," and although he and other critics generally praised the film, most compared it unfavorably to the Broadway original. Art director Richard Day received an Academy Award nomination for the film.
- Thornton Freeland, H. B. Humberstone
- Eddie Cantor
Whoopee! Poster for the 1979 Broadway revival. Whoopee! is a 1928 musical comedy play with a book based on Owen Davis's play, The Nervous Wreck. The musical libretto was written by William Anthony McGuire, with music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1928, starring Eddie Cantor, and introduced the ...
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Whoopee! Watch Whoopee! with a subscription on Prime Video. In this zany musical, Sally (Eleanor Hunt) loves Wanenis (Paul Gregory), a Native American man, but her father has forbidden her to ...
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Whoopee! is a 1930 comedy musical Western, loosely based on the 1928 stage show of the same name produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. The movie is directed by Thornton Freeland and follows the story of a ...
