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Fifty Million Frenchmen

1931, Movie, NR, 68 mins

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Gaxton bets $50,000 he can win the heart of Dell in two weeks without spending a franc. Olsen and Johnson are hired to make sure his plans are foiled. Despite a great cast (many repeating their original Broadway roles) the film is a disappointment. Deciding that musicals were box office poison, Warner Bros. cut out Cole Porter's songs from FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, using them as background music instead. (The songs later appeared in a two-reel short, PAREE, PAREE, featuring B... read more leave a comment
Olsen & Johnson prove Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931) can't be wrong in the film version of the comic Broadway hit -- minus the Cole Porter songs!
Free | TCM

Posted: 8/1/2008
Year: 1931
Rated NR

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Cast
William Gaxton: Jack Forbes
Olsen & Johnson: Simon and Peter
John Halliday: Michael Cummings
Helen Broderick: Violet
Claudia Dell: Looloo Carroll
Lester Crawford: Billy Baxter

 

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