Whoopee!

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Whoopee! ★★ 1930

Cantor stars in his first sound picture as a rich hypochondriac sent out west for his health, where he encounters rugged cowboys and Indians. Filmed in two-color Technicolor and based on Ziegfeld's 1928 Broadway production with the same cast. Dances supervised by Busby Berkeley. ♫The Song of the Setting Sun; Mission Number; Makin' Whoopee; A Girlfriend of a Boyfriend of Mine; My Baby Just Cares for Me; I'll Still Belong to You; Stetson. 93m/C VHS . Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Betty Grable; D: Thornton Freeland.