Louisiana Purchase (1941)
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
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
Barney Dean
Writer
Andrew Tombes
Dean Albert Manning
Irving Cummings
Director
Robert Warwick
Speaker of the House
Buddy G. DeSylva
Writer
Charles La Torre
Gaston, Waiter
Charles Laskey
Danseur
Morrie Ryskind
Writer
Jerome Chodorov
Writer
Emory Parnell
Sam Horowitz, Lawyer
Joseph Fields
Writer
Iris Meredith
Lawyer's secretary
Harry Hallenberger
Cinematographer
Catherine Craig
Saleslady
Ray Rennahan
Cinematographer
Jack Norton
Jester
Sam McDaniel
Sam
LeRoy Stone
Editor
Kay Aldridge
Louisiana Belle
Karin Booth
Louisiana Belle (as Katharine Booth)
Rebel Randall
Louisiana Belle (as Alaine Brandes)
Barbara Britton
Louisiana Belle
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Louisiana Purchase is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and 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. In return, FDR promised federal dollars for public works in Louisiana, a deal cynically referred to by many as the second Louisiana Purchase.Starring Paramount's house comedian Bob Hope in the role William Gaxton played on stage, the film featured Vera Zorina, Victor Moore and Irène Bordoni reprising their stage roles. Raoul Pene Du Bois did the production and costume design and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color along with Stephen Seymour. The cinematography was by Harry Hallenberger and Ray Rennahan who also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.