San Diego, I Love You
Cast & Crew
Reginald Le Borg
Jon Hall
Louise Allbritton
Edward Everett Horton
Eric Blore
Buster Keaton
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Synopsis
Schoolteacher Philip McCooley returns home to discover that his daughter Virginia has offered his resignation at Waterville High School so that the family can moved to San Diego and Philip can present his new invention, a lifeboat, to the International Research Bureau. On the train to San Diego, Virginia moves the family into the drawing room of multi-millionaire John Thompson Caldwell IV, and it is only after John is driven out of his room by the four noisy McCooley brothers that Virginia learns who he is. Faced with the severe housing shortage in San Diego, the McCooleys buy a rundown house, using Philip's life savings as a down payment, only to learn that the house comes with a live-in butler, Nelson, whom the McCooleys repeatedly attempt to dismiss, without success. Learning that Philip's invention may not be accepted by the IRB, which is owned by John, Virginia makes numerous attempts to convince the millionaire to finance the lifeboat, all with disastrous results. Later, John accidentally gives Virginia a black eye, and the two become friends when he takes her to a barbershop to have it treated and ends up in a fistfight instead. John and Virginia then hop aboard a city bus, and Virginia convinces the bus driver to leave his scheduled route and take a leisurely, romantic drive along the beach. That same night, spinster Sheila Jones enters the McCooley home, mistaking it for the boardinghouse next door, and refuses to give up her new room the next morning. Philip, wanting to return to Waterville, orders his young sons to follow their older sister while he attempts to sell their new home, and the four boys end up on a date with John and Virginia at the San Diego Zoo. Later, Virginia finally gets John to test Philip's lifeboat, but when the raft sinks with John aboard, the millionaire ends on up on the front page of the San Diego papers. As the McCooleys pack to leave San Diego, Nelson gives Virginia the rare rubber cement needed to repair the lifeboat, and she, in turn, attempts to demonstate the raft's seaworthiness by paddling it about San Diego Harbor. John and his cousin Percy then arrive at the McCooley home, and, upon learning of Virginia's plan, all rush to the harbor, for while Philip's raft is structurally unsafe, the power he invented for his flare gun is a priceless explosive. After being rescued, Virigina promises John that she will not cause him any more trouble, and he, in turn, proposes to her.
Director
Reginald Le Borg
Cast
Jon Hall
Louise Allbritton
Edward Everett Horton
Eric Blore
Buster Keaton
Irene Ryan
Rudy Wissler
Gerald Perreau
Charles Bates
Don Davis
Florence Lake
Chester Clute
Sarah Selby
Fern Emmett
Mabel Forrest
George Lloyd
Jack Rice
Bill Davidson
John Gannon
Jerry Shane
Clarence Muse
Eddie Bruce
Mabel Smaney
Edward Gargan
Joe Kirk
Kernan Cripps
Martin Ashe
Jimmy Carpenter
Charles Sherlock
Richard Powers
Tom Quinn
Howard Mitchell
Ronnie Rondell
Jimmy Zaner
Jan Wiley
James Carlisle
Beatrice Roberts
Lew Wood
Harry Barris
George Meader
Almira Sessions
Leon Belasco
Sarah Padden
Vernon Dent
Harry Tyler
Hobart Cavanaugh
Victoria Horne
Yorke Sherwood
Teddy Infuhr
Charles Williams
Gene Stutenroth
Eddie Dunn
Dewey Robinson
Constance Purdy
Ethel May Halls
Milton Kibbee
Matt Mchugh
Esther Howard
Lloyd Ingraham
Crew
Howard Benedict
Richard Bransten
Bernard B. Brown
Carter Dehaven
Michael Fessier
Michael Fessier
William Fox
Fred Frank
John P. Fulton
Russell A. Gausman
Alexander Golitzen
John B. Goodman
Charles Maynard
Ruth Mckenney
Hal Mohr
Ernest Pagano
Ernest Pagano
H. J. Salter
Leigh Smith
Vera West
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According to Hollywood Citizen-News, this film was based on an unpublished sketch by Ruth McKenney entitled "Washington, I Love You," but the locale was switched to San Diego by producers/screenwriters Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano because of the glut of Washington housing shortage films being made in Hollywood at the time. Hollywood Reporter news items announced that the picture was originally to star Robert Paige and Louise Allbritton, but the two were replaced by Jon Hall and Susanna Foster in late March 1944. Allbritton, however, replaced Foster when the film finally went into production in April 1944. Film editor Charles Maynard died shortly before the release of this film.
