Sitting Pretty
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Harry Joe Brown
Jack Oakie
Jack Haley
Ginger Rogers
Gregory Ratoff
Thelma Todd
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Chick Parker, songwriter for Century Music Company, leaves for Hollywood with shipping clerk-turned-lyricist Pete Pendleton following the sale of their song "I Wanna Meander with Miranda." Chick gambles all of Pete's money away, forcing the duo to hitchhike West. They are picked up by senile George Wilson, the ex-partner of Jules Clark, who is the president of Acme Pictures. Wilson impersonates Clark and gives Pete and Chick a bad check when he hires them. At a diner, Pete and Chick meet proprietor Dorothy and her little brother Buzz, who join them in their cheap Hollywood bungalow. By impersonating his agent and landlord Tannenbaum, Chick gets an appointment with the real Clark. While Pete and Chick audition, temperamental actress Gloria Duval falls in love with Chick's song "Blonde, Blasé and Beautiful" and demands that he write for her next picture. Gloria vamps Chick, then convinces him that Pete is holding him back. Chick says goodbye to the ever-devoted Pete the night he and Dorothy throw Chick a birthday party. Although originally smitten with Chick, Dorothy now begins to fall for Pete. Clark then fires Chick for distracting Gloria and Pete defends him, then quits himself. When Gloria realizes Chick is broke, she deserts him. Pete visits Chick as movers take away his furniture and asks for a reunion. They get drunk at a bar with director Norman Lubin, who invites them to perform at a Hollywood party. At the end of the evening, they sign a contract with Mr. Vinton of Superba Pictures, whose next film stars Dorothy, who marries Pete.
Director
Harry Joe Brown
Cast
Jack Oakie
Jack Haley
Ginger Rogers
Gregory Ratoff
Thelma Todd
Lew Cody
Jerry Tucker
The Pickens Sisters
The Hundred Hollywood Honeys
Hale Hamilton
Walter Walker
Kenneth Thomson
William Davidson
Lee Morgan
Harry Revel
Mack Gordon
Arthur Jarrett
Virginia Sale
Crew
Lou Breslow
Harry Joe Brown
Larry Ceballos
Mack Gordon
Milt Krasner
Jack Mcgowan
S. J. Perelman
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Harry Revel
Charles R. Rogers
Harry Stoddard
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
This film appears in pre-production news items in Hollywood Reporter as We're Sitting Pretty. Its working title was Broadway Bad. Although the onscreen credits state that the film was "suggested by Nina Wilcox Putnam," contemporary Paramount studio records credit Putnam and Harry Stoddard with original story. A Hollywood Reporter news item states that the film was adapted from an unspecified French comedy which Harry Joe Brown purchased in Paris. Hollywood Reporter announced on August 3, 1933 that Mike Simmons would be writing the screenplay with Jack MacGowan and S. J. Perelman; however, Lou Breslow is credited on the screen. Ginger Rogers and eighty chorus girls performed an extensive fan dance in a hall of mirrors in the film. Variety called the song "Lazy Louisiana Liza" a "polite rewrite" of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel's "Lazy Louzy Liza." A news item in Hollywood Reporter on June 14, 1933 credits actor Jack Haley with writing music and songs in collaboration with Gordon, however, Haley does not receive music credit on the screen. A Hollywood Reporter news item on August 19, 1933 includes Sally O'Neil in the cast, although she is not in the screen credits or in reviews.
