So You Want to Throw a Party

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George O'Hanlon in So You Want to Throw a Party (1950)

Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Jo... Read allJoe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Joe does.Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Joe does.

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- Richard L. Bare
Writers
- Richard L. Bare
- George O'Hanlon
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6.6/10

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

Joe McDoakes

Phyllis Coates

Alice McDoakes
(uncredited)

Billy Curtis

W.L. Pipp
(uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Joe Frisbee
(uncredited)

Fred Kelsey

Mr. Rublemeyer
(uncredited)

Jack Lomas

Mr. Heathcliffe
(uncredited)

Cleo Moore

Mrs. Joe Frisbee
(uncredited)

Ralph Sanford

Postman
(uncredited)

Ted Stanhope

Giles Poldergrass
(uncredited)

Ellinor Vanderveer

Mrs. Poldergrass
(uncredited)

Willard Waterman

George - aka Harry Blivens - Joe's Boss
(uncredited)

Director
- Richard L. Bare
Writers
- Richard L. Bare
- George O'Hanlon
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Trivia
The brand of sleeping pills Joe accidentally takes is "Enditol" (end it all) - a macabre joke at a method of suicide by overdose of sleeping pills.

Goofs
Joe's wife says she has only invited eight people to the party, but Joe's phone list shows six married couples--12 people.

Connections
Followed by So You Think You're Not Guilty (1950)

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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

Can't Have A Party Without Mr. Shmoocumber

Phyllis Coates insist she and George O'Hanlon throw a party, so a bunch of people show up to stare awkwardly at each other, just like every party I've thrown, in this episode of the Warner Brothers comedy short series.

It's not among the best of the series, but like all of them it has its moments of surreal absurdity, as it straddles the worlds of situation comedy and slapstick. O'Hanlon playsit big, and Miss Coates is strident. The various shlubs who show up for the party as are motley a bunch of middle-class White people as I've ever seen.