Louisiana Purchase (1941)
WHERE THERE'S HOPE...THERE'S LIFE AND LAUGHTER!
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
- Date of release
- 1941-12-31
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Director
- Irving Cummings
Casting
- Bob Hope — Jim Taylor
- Vera Zorina — Marina Von Minden
- Victor Moore — Sen. Oliver P. Loganberry
- Irène Bordoni — Madame Yvonne Bordelaise
- Dona Drake — Beatrice
- Raymond Walburn — Col. Davis Sr. aka Polar Bear
- Maxie Rosenbloom — The Shadow aka Wilson
- Phyllis Ruth — Emmy Lou
- Frank Albertson — Robert Davis, Jr.
- Donald MacBride — Capt. Pierre Whitfield
- Andrew Tombes — Dean Albert Manning
- Robert Warwick — Speaker of the House
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2
Louisiana Purchase is a 1941 American musical comedy film starring Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, and Victor Moore. It is an adaptation of Irving Berlin's 1940 Broadway musical of the same name. A Paramount Pictures production, the film was directed by Irving Cummings, with Robert Emmett Dolan serving as musical director as he had done for the play. The film satirises the US Democratic Party and political corruption. The film was Bob Hope's first feature film in Technicolor. The title refers to the State of Louisiana offering to drop the deceased leader Huey Long's controversial Share Our Wealth program, and fully support President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal.
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