Hips, Hips, Hooray!

1934
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1h 8m

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Ruth Etting, Dorothy Lee, Thelma Todd, Bert Wheeler, and Robert Woolsey in Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)

Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.

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Bert Wheeler

Andy Williams

Robert Woolsey

Dr. Robert Dudley

Ruth Etting

Ruth Etting

Thelma Todd

Miss Frisby

Dorothy Lee

Daisy Maxwell

George Meeker

Armand Beauchamp

Phyllis Barry

Madame Irene

James P. Burtis

Sweeney
(as James Burtis)

Matt Briggs

Epstein

Spencer Charters

Clark

Stanley Blystone

Race Driver
(uncredited)

True Boardman

Sports Announcer
(uncredited)

Marjorie Brandon

Animal-Print Model
(uncredited)

June Brewster

Mr. Clark's Secretary
(uncredited)

Thelma Bruskoff

Chorus Girl
(uncredited)

Marion Byron

Page Girl
(uncredited)

Jean Carmen

Blonde
(uncredited)

Nat Carr

Gas Station Proprietor
(uncredited)

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Trivia
During the song "Keep On Doing What You're Doing", Dorothy Lee is dropped on her back. Although she carries on, and finishes the number, the injury to her spine left her in pain for the rest of her life.

Goofs
During the "Keep On Doing What You're Doing" number Thelma Todd loses the bottom two buttons from her dress. One can be seen flying off before she goes out to the balcony. The other is lost outside. She starts the dance with one button centered at the top and six down the side. As the dance ends, there are only four left on the side.

Quotes
Miss Frisby: Two minds and a single thought.
Dr. Dudley: Yes, it's about all they can handle at one time.

Connections
Featured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)

Soundtracks
Keep Romance Alive
(1933) (uncredited)
Written by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar
Sung by Ruth Etting
Danced by chorus girls twice
Danced by Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey
Played often in the score

Another little gem from the mad 30s boys of RKO as this frenetically paced oddity takes us from flavoured lipsticks to a mad Keystone-like car race in the space of just over an hour. Alongside cigar-chomping Woolsey and irritating little Wheeler we have Dorothy Lee (as per usual) and Thelma Todd playing the cutie romantic interest parts, and a short song right at the beginning from third-billed Ruth Etting (in a rather fetching hat).

Best sequences in this one - "Just Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'", really funny - the whole car race sequence, and the bevy of cuties with flavoured lipsticks ("we've got to guess what flavour" - oh, sure ...). I bet the set cleaners at RKO were knee-deep in bananas by the end of the shoot though :)