Hotel Haywire (1937)
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The inimitable Preston Sturges originally scripted Hotel Haywire with George Burns and Gracie Allen in mind, but by the time the film went before the cameras, the Burns and Allen roles had been recast with Benny Baker and Colette Lyons -- and significantly abbreviated in the process. A dentist named… More The inimitable Preston Sturges originally scripted Hotel Haywire with George Burns and Gracie Allen in mind, but by the time the film went before the cameras, the Burns and Allen roles had been recast with Benny Baker and Colette Lyons -- and significantly abbreviated in the process. A dentist named Parkhouse (Lynne Overman) plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires, whereupon Parkhouse finds himself in hot water with his own wife (Spring Byington). Threatened with divorce, Parkhouse is advised by a zany astrologer to frame Mrs. P. in a compromising situation at the Hotel Haywire, enlisting amateur detectives Bert and Genevieve Sterns (Baker and Lyons) in his scheme. Things get really hectic when Parkhouse's daughter Phyllis (Mary Carlisle) and her sweetheart Frank (John Patterson) show up at the same hotel. The film is dominated by the antics of larcenous astrologer Zodiac Z. Zippe, played with comic ferocity by Leo Carrillo. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Arthur Archainbaud
- Genres
- Romance, Classics, Comedy
G,
- In Theaters
- Jun 4, 1937 Wide
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Cast
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Leo Carrillo
as Dr. Zodiac Z. Zippe
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Mary Carlisle
as Phyllis Parkhouse
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Lynne Overman
as Dr. Parkhouse
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George Barbier
as I. Ketts
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Spring Byington
as Mrs. Parkhouse
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Ben Baker
as Bertie Sterns
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Collette Lyons
as Genevieve Sterns
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John Patterson
as Frank Ketts
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Porter Hall
as Judge Newhall
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Josephine Whittell
as Mrs. Newhall
- George Anderson
- Don Brodie
- Jack J. Clark
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Chester Conklin
as O'Shea
- Frank Dawson
- Sidney de Grey
- James Donlan
- Ellen Drew
- Lowell Drew
- Almeda Fowler
- Frank Hammond
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Teddy Hart
as O. Levy
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Lucien Littlefield
as Elmer
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Nick Lukats
as Reception Clerk
- Wally Maher
- Howard Mitchell
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Franklin Pangborn
as Fuller Brush Salesman
- Oscar Rudolph
- Harry Semels
- Phillips Smalley
- Hayden Stevenson
- Colin Tapley
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Guy Usher
as Reilly
- William Arnold
- Richard Neill
- Helen Dickson
- Mitchell Ingraham
