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Best Music Original Song | 1939
Most Performed Feature Film Standards | 1989
Budget 1,000,000 USD
Bob Hope's big break in feature films occurred when Jack Benny turned down this role.
Just after he lands on the S.S. Gigantic, W. C. Fields asks a crew member to open a case for him, adding "Wipe the top of the bottle off." This appears to be a typical Fields ad lib. There is an explosive laugh from all the extras, and Leif Erickson can be seen trying to keep a straight face.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. It was released on DVD 5 March 2002 in tandem with College Swing (1938) as part of the Bob Hope Tribute Collection, and again, as a single 30 October 2015 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
In the song, "Thanks For the Memory" the censors demanded that the lyric, "That weekend at Niagara / Where we never saw the falls" should be changed to "That weekend at Niagara / Where we hardly saw the falls." Bob Hope later said, "I thought this made the lyric sound even more suggestive."
First full-length movie for Bob Hope, where he first sings his future theme song "Thanks for the Memory" with Shirley Ross. The song won the Academy Award for Best Song at the 1939 awards ceremony. Bob Hope later in his career also introduced the Academy Award winning song "Buttons and Bows" in the movie The Paleface, making him one of the few individuals to introduce more than one Best Song in a movie.
"First reporter: Say, do you know anything about electricity? S.B. Bellows: My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at State Prison."
"Martha Bellows: Gee, I- I'm so cute! I'll bet they put my picture on the front page. Scoop McPhail: I'll never forget the last time you had your picture on the front page. Your mouth was continued on page two."
