Look Who's Laughing (1941)

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Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his radio series, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen sets out in his private plane, accompanied by his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Developing engine trouble, Bergen makes a forced landing in… More Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his radio series, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen sets out in his private plane, accompanied by his dummy Charlie McCarthy. Developing engine trouble, Bergen makes a forced landing in the town of Wistful Vista, home of Fibber McGee and Molly (Jim and Marian Jordan). Here he gets mixed up in a municipal dispute between Fibber and Throckmorton Gildersleeve (Harold Peary) over the impending construction of a local aircraft factory. Before the film's multitude of complications can be straightened out, Fibber and Molly find themselves aloft in a runaway plane, while Charlie McCarthy falls in love with a squeaky-voiced little girl (who turns out to be Molly in disguise). Best scene: A disconsolate Charlie getting "wasted" on ice-cream sodas while counterman Sterling Holloway looks on sympathetically. Lucille Ball is largely wasted as Bergen's secretary, while Fibber McGee and Molly's radio announcer Harlow Wilcox shows up in a character bit. A box-office bonanza, Look Who's Laughing spawned an abundance of future screen assignments for Bergen, McCarthy, Fibber, Molly, and "Gildersleeve." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 19 min.
Directed By: Allan Dwan
Written By: James V. Kern, Dorothy Kingsley
Genres: Comedy

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Cast

            Edgar Bergen as Himself

            Dummy: Charlie McCarthy as Himself

            Jim Jordan as Fibber McGee

            Marian Jordan as Molly McGee

            Lucille Ball as Julie Patterson

            Lee Bonnell as Jerry

            Dorothy Lovett as Marge

            Harold Peary as The Great Gildersleeve

            Isabel Randolph as Mrs. Uppington

            Walter S. Baldwin as Bill

            Neil Hamilton as Hilary Horton

            Charles Halton as Cudahy

            Spencer Charters as Hotel Manager

            Jed Prouty as Mayor Duncan

            George Cleveland as Mayor Kelsey

            Harlan Briggs
            
            Arthur Q. Bryan as Mayor Duncan's Aides

            Louise Currie as Jane

            Dell Henderson as Mr. Wentworth

            Edna Holland as Mrs. Hargrave

            Sterling Holloway as Rusty

            Matty Kemp as Harry

            Donald Kerr as Father

            Louis Payne as Butler

            Bill Thompson as Veteran

            Charles Lane as Club Secretary

            Sally Cairns as Girl

            Jack George as Orchestra Leader

            Dorothy Lloyd as Maisie/Matilda

            Florence Wright as Evelyn
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