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Jitterbugs

Jitterbugs

1943Movie⏱️ 1h 15mApproved
ComedyMusical
6.2
IMDB Rating
1,519 votes

The boys team up with a likable con man to help a pretty singer's mother who's been taken in by swindlers.

Director
Malcolm St. Clair
Writers
Scott Darling, Henry Lehrman
Stars
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine
Release Date
June 11, 1943
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 31
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
as Stan
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
as Ollie
Vivian Blaine
Vivian Blaine
as Susan Cowan
Robert Bailey
Robert Bailey
as Chester Wright
Douglas Fowley
Douglas Fowley
as Malcolm Bennett
Noel Madison
Noel Madison
as Tony Queen
Lee Patrick
Lee Patrick
as Dorcas
Robert Emmett Keane
Robert Emmett Keane
as Henry Corcoran
Gladys Blake
Gladys Blake
as Dice-Game Operator
Paul Bradley
Paul Bradley
as Carnival Patron

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Palmdale, California, USA
Production
Twentieth Century Fox

🏷️ Keywords

double feature filmgas rationingblack marketdeceptionfrustration

🎯 Categories

ComedyMusical

⭐ Featured Review

Delightful characterizations by L & H makes this film charming
by jgpalladino2002-05-10

"Although lacking in much of the standard L & H humor, this film has other merits going for it. Ollie's impersonation of Southern gentleman Colonel Watterson Bixby of Amadillo County, Texas offers him the felicitous opportunity to play a character close to his own Southern upbringing. Once again in drag, Stan's characterization of Bostonian dowager, Emily Cartwright, offers him the joyous occasion of reusing his Lord Paddinton upper-crust accent tempered with a slight nuance of local Boston color. The scenes in which they appear are a sheer delight chiefly because they carry it of..."

💡 Did You Know?

Oliver Hardy, who uncharacteristically has solo scenes without partner Stan Laurel, rated this film as one of his five favorites.

📖 Synopsis

The boys team up with a likable con man to help a pretty singer's mother who's been taken in by swindlers.