Look Who's Laughing

Look Who's Laughing (1941)

Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series

Date of release
1941-11-21
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Allan Dwan

Casting

Interesting facts

Look Who's Laughing is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Allan Dwan. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. The film is built around a number of radio stars from the Golden Age of Radio and centers around radio personality Jim Jordan as Fibber McGee from the comic duo, Fibber McGee and Molly, who plans to build an aircraft factory in a small town. Look Who's Laughing was followed by Here We Go Again (1942), with many of the radio stars reprising their performances. It is also known by the alternative title Look Who's Talking.

Production

Principal photography on Look Who's Laughing took place beginning on May 13, 1941 and ending late June 1941. The working title of the film was Look Who's Talking. In the opening credits of Look Who's Laughing, "the two "O's" in the word "look" become eyeballs and the "O" in the word "who" turns into a laughing mouth."

In a March 12, 1941 story on its pre-production, the New York Times headlined "Lucille Ball and Husband, Desi Arnaz, to Co-Star." Arnaz ended up being replaced. It would take ten more years to act with wife Ball, in TV's I Love Lucy in 1951.

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