Whoopee!

Whoopee! Goldwyn / United Artists, 1930, Color, 94min, *** Released September, 1930 The legendary stage musical brought to the screen by none other than Florenz Ziegfeld, himself. Great showcase for the incomparable Eddie Cantor. A very young Betty Grable is in the chorus. Crazy fun! Producers: Florenz Ziegfeld and Samuel Goldwyn Directed by: Thronton Freeland Story by: William Anthony McGuire Based on Owen Davis' Play The Nervous Wreck Screen Adaptation by: William Conselman Music by: Walter Donaldson Lyrics by: Gus Kahn Musical Direction: Alfred Newman Production Scored and Played by: George Olsen and his Music Dances and Ensembles Staged by: Busby Berkeley Art Direction: Richard Day Costumes Executed by: United Costumes, Inc. Sound Recorded by: Oscar Lagerstrom Photography by: Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, Gregg Toland Filmed in Technicolor Film Edited by: Stuart Heisler Awards: Academy Award nomination for Best Interior Decoration (Richard Day) Cast: Eddie Cantor [Henry Williams], Eleanor Hunt [Sally Morgan], Paul Gregory[Wanenis], Jack Rutherford [Sheriff Bob Wells], Ethel Shutta [Mary Custer], Spencer Charters [Jerome Underwood], Chief Caupolican [Black Eagle], Albert Hackett[Chester Underwood], William H. Philbrick [Andy McNabb], Walter Law [Judd Morgan], Marian Marsh (aka Marilyn Morgan) [Harriet Underwood], Dean Jagger[Deputy], George Morgan and His Orchestra [Specialty], Betty Grable, Virginia Bruce,Muriel Finley, Jeanne Morgan, Ruth Eddings, Ernestine Mahoney, Christine Maple,Dorothy Knapp, Claire Dodd, Jane Keithly, Mary Ashcraft, Betty Stockton, Georgia Lerch [The Goldwyn Girls] Musical Program: [0:04] Cowboys (production number sung and danced by Betty Grable and Chorus); [0:15] I'll Still Belong to You (Paul Gregory); [0:21] Makin' Whoopee (Eddie Cantor with the Goldwyn Girls); [0:26] Today's the Day (Chorus); [0:34] A Girl Friend of a Boy Friend of Mine (Eddie Cantor); [0:46] Makin' Waffles(Eddie Cantor); [0:57] My Baby Just Cares for Me (sung and danced by Eddie Cantor); [1:06] Stetson (production number sung and danced by Ethel Shutta, Men's Chorus and Goldwyn Girls); [1:19] I'll Still Belong to You (reprise, Paul Gregory); [1:24] The Song of the Setting Sun (production number sung by Chief Caupolican, danced by Goldwyn Girls); [1:32] My Baby Just Cares for Me (reprise, Eddie Cantor) Busby Berkeley kaleidoscope shot