Joan of Ozark (1942)
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The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the bizarre wartime musical Joan of Ozark. While hunting quail near her home, hillbilly Judy (Canova) catches a carrier pigeon bearing a message for a ring of Nazi spies. She turns… More The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the bizarre wartime musical Joan of Ozark. While hunting quail near her home, hillbilly Judy (Canova) catches a carrier pigeon bearing a message for a ring of Nazi spies. She turns the bird over to the FBI and is lauded as a heroine-much to the dismay of Philip Munson (Jerome Cowan), whose posh New York nightclub is a cover for his Fifth Column activities. As luck would have it, theatrical agent Cliff Little (Joe E. Brown) has been sent to the Ozarks to scare up new talent for Munson's club. Little wants to sign Judy for a singing contract, but she'll have none of it until he poses as a G-Man and appoints her an honorary "G-Woman." To keep Judy happy once they're back in New York, Cliff pretends to be a spy while wandering around the nightclub-and thus it is that our hapless hero and heroine stumble upon Munson's nest of Nazis. It's hard to determine which is sillier in Joan of Ozark: Joe E. Brown's imitation of Adolf Hitler or the Keystone Kop-like climactic airplane chase. Also good for a few yocks is the closing musical number, set in "the future"-namely, 1952! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joseph Santley
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 15, 1942 Wide
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Cast
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Judy Canova
as Judy Hull
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Joe E. Brown
as Cliff Little
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Eddie Foy Jr.
as Eddie McCabe
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Jerome Cowan
as Phillip Munson
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Alexander Granach
as Guido
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Anne Jeffreys
as Marie Lamont
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Otto Reichow
as Otto
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Wolfgang Zilzer
as Kurt
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Donald Curtis
as Leonard Jones
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Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
as Hans
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Harry Hayden
as Mayor Fadden
- Eric Alden
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Robert Cherry
as Young Hillbilly
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Chester Clute
as Salesman
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George Eldredge
as Chandler
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Paul Fung
as Yamatako
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Tyler Gibson
as Zeke
- Ernest Hilliard
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Olin Howland
as Game Warden
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Bud Jamison
as Cop
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Nora Lane
as Mrs Ashley
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Emmett Lynn
as Hillbilly Driver
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Ralph McCullough
as Reporter
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Bert Moorhouse
as Drunk
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Ralph Peters
as Window Cleaner
- Jason Robards Sr.
- Cyril Ring
- Fred Santley
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Bob Stevenson
as Hillbilly
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Bobby Stone
as Newsboy
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Kam Tong
as Japanese Commander
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Laura Treadwell
as Mrs. Graham
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William Von Brincken
as German Radio Operator
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Lloyd Whitlock
as Col. Ashley
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Horace B. Carpenter
as Mountaineer
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Charles Williams
as Representative
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Gladys Gale
as Mrs. Fadden
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Dick Keene
as Theatrical Agent
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William Nestell
as Joe
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William Dean
as Karl
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William Sundholm
as Si
- Pat Gleason
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Charles Miller
as Mr. Graham
