Li'l Abner
Cast & Crew
Albert S. Rogell
Granville Owen
Martha O'driscoll
Mona Ray
Johnnie Morris
Buster Keaton
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Synopsis
Granny Scraggs urges Daisy Mae to marry, but Daisy is smitten by L'il Abner Yokum, the most eligible bachelor in Dog Patch, and refuses to consider hitching herself to anyone else. Li'l Abner, however, stubbornly resists the idea of love and marriage and remains impervious to Daisy Mae's charms. His attitude changes, however, when, stricken with a stomach ache, he consults with a barber, whom he mistakes for the distinguished Dr. Barbour. After being given only twenty-four hours to live by the false doctor, Li'l Abner rushes to kiss Daisy Mae, a pledge of marriage according to the code of the hills. He then decides to provide for Mammy and Pappy Yokum by capturing bank robber Earthquake McGoon of Skunk Holler for the twenty-five dollar reward. Li'l Abner gets his man but is trapped in the woods by the angry citizenry of Skunk Holler. Wendy Wilecat appears from behind some trees and offers to save Li'l Abner if he promises to marry her. Believing that he will be dead by morning, he consents. Much to Li'l Abner's surprise, he awakens the next morning to find that he is very much alive and the would-be groom to two brides. As Wendy and Daisy Mae play tug of war with Li'l Abner, Mayor Gurgle rules that whoever catches him during the Sadie Hawkins Day race can have him, and after a hard run race, Li'l Abner loses his bachelorhood to Daisy Mae.
Director
Albert S. Rogell
Cast
Granville Owen
Martha O'driscoll
Mona Ray
Johnnie Morris
Buster Keaton
Billie Seward
Kay Sutton
Maude Eburne
Edgar Kennedy
Charles A. Post
Bud Jamison
Dick Elliott
Johnny Arthur
Walter Catlett
Lucien Littlefield
Frank Wilder
Chester Conklin
Mickey Daniels
Doodles Weaver
Marie Blake
Renie Riano
Al St. John
Eddie Gribbon
Heinie Conklin
Hank Mann
Eddie Borden
Vic Potel
Joan Standing
Salomey
Crew
Ralph Berger
Milton Berle
John Burch
Al Capp
Robert Coburn
Milton Drake
Paul Eagler
Lud Gluskin
Donn Hayes
Harry Jackson
Tyler Johnson
Charles Kerr
Otto Ludwig
Norbert Miles
Ben Oakland
Lou Ostrow
Herman Raymaker
Herman Schlom
Melville Shyer
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Notes
The working title of this film was Trouble Chaser. In 1959, Paramount produced a musical verion of the Al Capp comic strip, also titled Li'l Abner, directed by Melvin Frank and starring Peter Palmer and Stubby Kaye. The 1959 version was based on the Broadway musical comedy Li'l Abner (15 November 1956) by Melvin Frank and Melvin Panama with songs by Johnny Mercer and Gene de Paul.
