It's a Great Life (1936)
- Starring:
- Joe Morrison, Paul Kelly, (more)
- Director(s):
- Edward F. Cline
Synopsis of It's a Great Life
It's a Great Life served as a vehicle for once-popular radio singer Joe Morrison (who can also be seen in W.C. Fields' It's the Old Fashioned Way). Morrison plays a young unemployed fellow who joins the Civilian Conservation Corps. Enjoying the twin euphoria of steady work and fresh air, Morrison and his new pal, hobo Paul Kelly, burst into song at the slightest provocation. A rift comes between Morrison and Kelly when Morrison's girl Rosalind Keith falls in love with the tramp, but all differences are swept away during a climactic bursting-dam sequence. It's a Great Life was co-written by future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake, who in 1943 would star in a Blondie entry titled...It's a Great Life. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of It's a Great Life
- Joe Morrison - Johnny Barclay
- Charles "Chic" Sale - Grandpa Barclay
- Baby Le Roy - Buddy
- William Frawley - Lt. McNulty
- Gloria Ann White - Elizabeth
- Oscar Polk - Lazy Bones
- Irving Bacon
- Duke York
- Paul Kelly - Rockie Johnson
- Rosalind Keith - Mary
- Dean Jagger - Arnold
- David Holt - Ruddy
- Florence Nash - Ma
- Jack Murphy - Stevens
- Oscar Rudolph
- Allen Cavan - Doctor
- Director(s):
- Edward F. Cline
- Writer(s):
- Harlan Thompson, Paul Gerard Smith
- Producer(s):
- Harold Hurley, Adolph Zukor
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