Sitting Pretty (1933)
No relation to the later Clifton Webb vehicle of the same name, Sitting Pretty is a dated but likable film about the songwriting racket. Jack Oakie and Jack Haley play a pair of would-be tunesmiths who team up with aspiring dancer Ginger Rogers. Through the kindness of a tippling director (Lew Cody), the trio is given a bid for stardom in a movie musical directed by an excitable Russian (Gregory Ratoff). The characters played by Oakie and Haley were loosely based on Paramount's real-life songwriting team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who show up in bit parts. Sitting Pretty is the film that introduced the sprightly tune "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, (more)
- Director(s):
- Harry Joe Brown
Synopsis of Sitting Pretty
No relation to the later Clifton Webb vehicle of the same name, Sitting Pretty is a dated but likable film about the songwriting racket. Jack Oakie and Jack Haley play a pair of would-be tunesmiths who team up with aspiring dancer Ginger Rogers. Through the kindness of a tippling director (Lew Cody), the trio is given a bid for stardom in a movie musical directed by an excitable Russian (Gregory Ratoff). The characters played by Oakie and Haley were loosely based on Paramount's real-life songwriting team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who show up in bit parts. Sitting Pretty is the film that introduced the sprightly tune "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Sitting Pretty
- Jack Oakie - Chick Parker
- Ginger Rogers - Dorothy
- Gregory Ratoff - Tannenbaum
- Harry Revel - Pianist
- Mack Gordon - Song Publisher
- Walter Walker - George Wilson
- Wade Boteler - Jackson
- Charles Coleman - Butler
- Frank LaRue - Studio Gateman
- Art Jarrett - Singer
- Ken Thomson - Norman Lubin
- Larry Steers - Party Guest
- Lee Phelps - Studio Aide
- Jack Mower - Clark's Aide
- Charles Williams - A Neighbor
- Rollo Lloyd - Director
- Fuzzy Knight - Stock Clerk
- William B. Davidson - Director
- James P. Burtis - Mover Foreman
- Jack Haley - Pete Pendleton
- Thelma Todd - Gloria Duval
- Lew Cody - Jules Clark
- Jerry Tucker - Buzz
- Hale Hamilton - Vinton
- Irving Bacon - Dice Player
- Sidney Bracey - Manager
- Stuart Holmes - Dice Player
- Lee Moran - Assistant Director
- Henry Hall - Party Guest
- Phil Tead - Aide
- Russell Powell - Counterman
- Anne Nagel - Girl at Window
- Olive Brasno - Neighbor
- Dave "Tex" O'Brien - Assistant Cameraman
- Joyce Mathews - Blind Chorus Girl
- Frank S. Hagney - Bar Manager
- Harry C. Bradley - Set Designer
- Harvey Clark - Motorist
- Director(s):
- Harry Joe Brown
- Writer(s):
- S.J. Perelman, Jack McGowan, Lou Breslow
- Producer(s):
- Charles R. Rogers
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