So You Want to Be Pretty

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Joe and Alice go on separate vacations to do things for themselves: makeovers via plastic surgery. Then they meet at a bar not recognizing each other because they look so different. Names ch... Read allJoe and Alice go on separate vacations to do things for themselves: makeovers via plastic surgery. Then they meet at a bar not recognizing each other because they look so different. Names changed to protect the innocent.Joe and Alice go on separate vacations to do things for themselves: makeovers via plastic surgery. Then they meet at a bar not recognizing each other because they look so different. Names changed to protect the innocent.

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- Richard L. Bare
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- George O'Hanlon
- Richard L. Bare
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6.7/10

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Director
- Richard L. Bare
Writers
- George O'Hanlon
- Richard L. Bare
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George O'Hanlon

Joe McDoakes ala Roger

Iris Adrian

Mabel - Nurse
(uncredited)

Diane Brewster

Anna - Nurse
(uncredited)

Phyllis Coates

Alice McDoakes aka Cynthia
(uncredited)

Lester Dorr

Eddie - Bartender
(uncredited)

Fritz Feld

Dr. Von Slaughter - Plastic Surgeon
(uncredited)

Frank Sully

Harry
(uncredited)

Director
- Richard L. Bare
Writers
- George O'Hanlon
- Richard L. Bare
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Connections
Followed by So You Want to Play the Piano (1956)

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I Know That You Know
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Music by Vincent Youmans
Played during the opening credits and at the end

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6/10

Mighty Like A Moose

Phyllis Coates is going away for a couple of weeks with her mother, and husband George O'Hanlon shakes her hand goodbye -- they each have hideous, protruding teeth. In truth, she going to plastic surgeon Fritz Feld to get her teeth fixed.... and so is George. When they get out, they go to a bar separately....and fall in love with each other.

It's an old comedy plot, dating at least back to D. W. Griffith in A MASKED BALL. The best-known take on it is the Charley Chase short MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE, in which Charley has his teeth fixed, and movie wife Vivien Oakland has her nose fixed.

It's a typically funny entry in the JOE MCDOAKES series, and yes, Fritz Feld does his patented mouth-popping shtick.