A stripper discovers that a professor spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic.A stripper discovers that a professor spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic.A stripper discovers that a professor spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic.
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Jerry Frank
- Al Gordon
- (as Jerome Franks)
Wilson Benge
- Williams the Butler
- (uncredited)
Buster Brodie
- Bald Man in Box
- (uncredited)
Kendall Bryson
- Shakespearean Actor
- (uncredited)
Lucille Byron
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
James Carlisle
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
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Fun Movie
This is a low budget movie which had potential: A troupe of burlesque performers putting on a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew in a stuffy college setting. This premise is realized in a mediocre fashion: not much wit nor imagination is put into the buildup or to the performance (which relies on slapstick).
The movie is fun. It has a laugh or two. It is watchable because June Havoc is funny being the character she so often played in the 1940s: a gum chewing, very sexy, wisecracking, shapely, working class woman. She does a couple of songs, too. So does Dale Evans (without Roy Rogers). Her swinging, lively song is the best in the movie. Joe E. Brown is Joe E. Brown, but, playing a college professor, he plays it quite straight for a good part of the movie.
The version I saw had passable sound and visual quality, but it was cut up badly. It seemed that a good part of the movie was missing. I could follow the plot despite the missing parts, but the movie was sufficiently engaging that I found the omissions annoying.
Since I am an amateur movie historian and a fan of Joe E. Brown and June Havoc, I enjoyed it. I do not know how people who know neither of these performers would react to this modest, but interesting flick.
The movie is fun. It has a laugh or two. It is watchable because June Havoc is funny being the character she so often played in the 1940s: a gum chewing, very sexy, wisecracking, shapely, working class woman. She does a couple of songs, too. So does Dale Evans (without Roy Rogers). Her swinging, lively song is the best in the movie. Joe E. Brown is Joe E. Brown, but, playing a college professor, he plays it quite straight for a good part of the movie.
The version I saw had passable sound and visual quality, but it was cut up badly. It seemed that a good part of the movie was missing. I could follow the plot despite the missing parts, but the movie was sufficiently engaging that I found the omissions annoying.
Since I am an amateur movie historian and a fan of Joe E. Brown and June Havoc, I enjoyed it. I do not know how people who know neither of these performers would react to this modest, but interesting flick.
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- howardeisman
- Jun 7, 2017
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- 1.37 : 1
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