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    Whoopee! is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy musical Western film photographed in two-color Technicolor. It was directed by Thornton Freeland and stars...
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  • euphemism for sexual intercourse Whoopee!, a 1928 musical comedy Whoopee! (film), a 1930 adaptation of the musical Whoopee! (comics), a British comic book...
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  • The Whoopee Boys is a 1986 American comedy film directed by John Byrum and starring Michael O'Keefe and Paul Rodriguez. It was made by the writers and...
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    "Makin' Whoopee" is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed...
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  • Whoopee! is a 1928 musical comedy play with a book based on Owen Davis's play, The Nervous Wreck. The musical libretto was written by William Anthony...
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    A whoopee cap is a style of headwear popular among youths in the mid-20th century in the United States. It was often made from a man's felt fedora hat...
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    personality-centered musical, Whoopee! made little attempt to integrate the comedy routines, songs, and story. Nonetheless, Cantor's feature-film debut grossed over...
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  • Whispering Whoopee is a 1930 American Pre-Code short film directed by James W. Horne. It is in the public domain. Charley Chase as Charley Thelma Todd...
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  • The Whoopee Party is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on September 17, 1932. It was the 46th Mickey Mouse short, and the tenth of that...
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    School. She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to...
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  • Double Whoopee is a 1929 Hal Roach Studios silent short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot during February 1929 and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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    Bellairs (1930), Under a Texas Moon (1930), Bride of the Regiment (1930), Whoopee! (1930), King of Jazz (1930), Viennese Nights (1930), and Kiss Me Again...
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  • Rainer (December 25, 1993). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Grumpy': Hearts, Flowers, Whoopee Cushions". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 1, 2012. "AFI's 100 Years...
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    Western Whoopee is a 1930 animated short film directed by John Foster and Harry Bailey. It is part of the early cartoon series Aesop's Sound Fables. It...
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  • Woos Whoopee (sometimes referred to as Felix the Cat in Woos Whoopee or Felix Woos Whoopee) is a surreal, animated 1930 Felix the Cat short subject produced...
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    Ruby Keeler (category American film actresses)
    note that stated, "May I make you a star?" She appeared in Ziegfeld's Whoopee! (before being replaced before the opening by Ethel Shutta) in 1928, the...
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    the year's 10 best films. Reviewers praised Pfeiffer's performance in particular, often selecting her rendition of "Makin' Whoopee" on top of a grand...
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    Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a series of American animated comedy short films produced by Walt Disney Productions. The series started in 1928 with Steamboat...
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  • News Spencer Tracy – Up the River Barbara Weeks – Whoopee! Jones, Lon (March 4, 1944). "Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1914?". The Argus...
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    Carefree (1938), which costars Ralph Bellamy. The Eddie Cantor musicals Whoopee! (1930) and Roman Scandals (1933), and slapstick road movies such as Six...
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    Iron Man (1930), Good Old Schooldays (1930), Dixie Days (1930), Western Whoopee (1930), Laundry Blues (1930), Circus Capers (1930), Gypped in Egypt (1930)...
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  • Girl October 10 – Eddie Cantor, 72, American actor, singer, comedian, Whoopee!, Kid Millions October 15 – Cole Porter, 73, American composer and songwriter...
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    different. Filming is very tiresome and boring, and it doesn't give you the enthusiasm you get from the stage. That was evident in Whoopee! the film." In 1931...
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  • Wild West Whoopee is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Robert J. Horner and starring Jack Perrin, Josephine Hill and Buzz Barton. Jack...
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    American pre-Code musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed...
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    public domain included I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby; Makin' Whoopee; and You're the Cream in My Coffee. The Copyright Term Extension Act provides...
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    Eddie Deezen (category American male film actors)
    stereotypical "nerds" in both bit parts and major roles, including The Whoopee Boys (1986), the ensemble comedy Million Dollar Mystery (1987), Critters...
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  • While giving the film the grade of a B, Entertainment Weekly noted that "Soderbergh has chosen to apply an attitude of arch whoopee, a greasy veneer of...
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  • The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, also known as Soapbox Circus or Matchbox, were an Australian jug band formed in 1969. It centred on Mic Conway ("Captain...
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  • This is a list of Academy Award–nominated films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface...
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