"WHERE THERE'S HOPE...THERE'S LIFE AND LAUGHTER!" 31 December 1941 Comedy, Music 98 mins
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
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Bob Hope as Jim Taylor
Vera Zorina as Marina Von Minden
Victor Moore as Sen. Oliver P. Loganberry
Irène Bordoni as Madame Yvonne Bordelaise
Dona Drake as Beatrice
Raymond Walburn as Col. Davis Sr. aka Polar Bear
Maxie Rosenbloom as The Shadow aka Wilson
Phyllis Ruth as Emmy Lou
Frank Albertson as Robert Davis, Jr.
Donald MacBride as Capt. Pierre Whitfield
Andrew Tombes as Dean Albert Manning
Robert Warwick as Speaker of the House
Charles La Torre as Gaston, Waiter
Charles Laskey as Danseur
Emory Parnell as Sam Horowitz, Lawyer
Iris Meredith as Lawyer's secretary
Irving Cummings Director
Jerome Chodorov Writer
Joseph Fields Writer
Robert Emmett Dolan Music Director
Ray Rennahan Director of Photography
Harry Hallenberger Director of Photography
LeRoy Stone Editor
Wally Westmore Makeup Artist
Raoul Pene Du Bois Costume Design
Earl S. Hayman Sound Recordist
Walter Oberst Sound Recordist
Harold Wilson Associate Producer
Buddy G. DeSylva Short Story
Morrie Ryskind Theatre Play
Hans Dreier Art Direction
Robert Usher Art Direction
Canada 31 December 1941
United States 31 December 1941
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