Director: H. C. Potter
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Jane Frazee,
Plot: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Deconstructing Hollywood … for laughs: Hellzapoppin (1941)
A friend who teaches film to university students occasionally offers a course in comedy. He’d originally thought it would be fun, but was quickly disillusioned. Of course, comedy, more than drama, tends to be specific to its context as […]