LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Louisiana Purchase
Paramount, 1941, B/W and Color, 98 minutes, ***
Released December, 1941

Bob Hope will make your sides ache with laughter. With enchanting songs by Irving Berlin, including "Louisiana Purchase," "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely" and "It's a lovely day tomorrow," and based on the hit Broadway musical, Louisiana Purchase is a fun and fierce look at the way politics, and politicians, sometimes spin out of control and into the headlines!

Associate Producer: Harold Wilson
Directed by: Irving Cummings
Screen Play by: Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields
Based on the Musical Comedy by Morrie Ryskind (from the New York stage, 1940)
From a story by B. G. DeSylva
Music and Lyrics by: Irving Berlin
Music Direction: Robert Emmett Dolan
Music Assistant: Arthur Franklin
Settings and Costumes Designed by: Raoul Pène duBois
Art Supervision: Hans Dreier and Robert Usher
Makeup Artist: Wally Westmore
Sound Recording by: Earl Hayman and Walter Oberst
Directors of Photography: Ray Rennahan, Harry Hallenberger
In Technicolor
Color Director: Natalie Kalmus
Associate: Morgan Padelford
Edited by: LeRoy Stone

Cast: Bob Hope [Jim Taylor], Vera Zorina [Marina Von Minden], Victor Moore [Senator Oliver P. Loganberry], Irene Bordoni [Madame Yvonne Bordelaise], Dona Drake [Beatrice], Raymond Walburn [Colonel Davis, Sr.], Maxie Rosenbloom [The Shadow], Phyllis Ruth [Emmy Lou], Frank Albertson [Davis, Jr.], Donald MacBride [Captain Whitfield], Andrew Tombes [Dean Manning], Robert Warwick [Speaker of the House], Charles LaTorre [Gaston], Charles Laskey [Danseur], Emory Parnell [Lawyer], Iris Meredith [Lawyer's Secretary], Catherine Craig [Saleslady], Jack Norton [Jester], Sam McDaniel [Sam], Kay Aldridge, Katharine Booth, Alaine Brandes, Barbara Britton, Brooke Evans, Blanche Grady, Lynda Grey, Margaret Hayes, Louise La Planche, Barbara Slater, Eleanor Stewart, Jean Wallace [Louisiana Belles]

Musical Program: [0:03] Lawyer's Letter (sung by Emory Parnell); [0:03] Girls Opening Chorus (It's New to Us) (sung by Girls Chorus); [0:47] You're Lonely and I'm Lonely (sung by Vera Zorina and Victor Moore - very funny number); [0:56] Louisiana Purchase (sung by Dona Drake and Chorus); [1:00] Dance with Me Tonight at the Mardi Gras (used instrumentally, danced by Chorus, ballet segment danced by Vera Zorina and Charles Laskey); [1:10] It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow (sung by male Chorus); "You Can't Brush Me Off" (used instrumentally); "The Lord Done Fixed Up My Soul" (used instrumentally); "Fools Fall in Love" (used instrumentally); "Sex Marches On" (used instrumentally)