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Jack Oakie And W. C. Fields Star In This Classic Pre-Code Comedy Send-Up Of The 1932 Summer Olympics Held In Hollywood's Home Town Of Los Angeles! The Weird And Wonderful Comedy Caper Costarring Susan Fleming (Harpo Marx's Future And Only Wife, Whose Legs Were Insured For A Million Dollars For The Film!) And Femme Fatale Lyda Roberti About A Small European Country That Enters The 1932 Olympics To Win Money To Bail Them Out Of Bankruptcy, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! (Black/White, 1932, 1 Hour 4 Minutes.) #MillionDollarLegs #MillionDollarLegs1932 #MillionDollarLegs1932Film #EdwardFCline #JosephLMankiewicz #HenryMyers #JackOakie #WCFields #AndyClyde #LydaRoberti #SusanFleming #PreCodeHollywood #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Cinema #Hollywood #AmericanCinema #USCinema #CinemaOfTheUS #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
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Director:
Edward F. Cline
Writing:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Henry Myers
Cast:
Jack Oakie ... Migg Tweeny
W.C. Fields ... The President
Andy Clyde ... The Major-Domo
Lyda Roberti ... Mata Machree
Susan Fleming ... Angela
Ben Turpin ... Mysterious Man
Hugh Herbert ... Secretary of the Treasury
George Barbier ... Mr. Baldwin
Dickie Moore ... Willie - Angela's Brother
Million Dollar Legs is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields, directed by Edward F. Cline, produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz (co-writer of Citizen Kane) and B.P. Schulberg, co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was inspired by the 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, California. According to Bill Marx, the adopted son of Harpo Marx and Susan Fleming, Mankiewicz originally developed this story with the intent of making it a Marx Brothers film, but they declined. As part of a publicity stunt for the film, Susan Fleming's legs were insured for the million dollars the film is named after. The New York Times' review described the film as "a hopefully mad sort of picture... where a series of comedians conducted themselves with a total lack of dignity." After a June 2010 screening in Tribeca, The New Yorker writer David Denby described the film's odd, fragmented structure as well as its overall surreal tone: "Million Dollar Legs...is about as close as Hollywood (in this case, Paramount) ever came to the spirit of Dada. The movie is so silly that it seems both artless and weirdly avant-garde, a style that the studios never quite explored again. Sequences begin and end abruptly; lovers talk parodistic nonsense to each other; Lyda Roberti, a comic dancer and singer with a delicious pan-European accent and alarmingly active hips (she makes Kim Cattrall look inhibited), turns up as a femme fatale, apparently based on Marlene Dietrich. The film bears some resemblance to the Marx Brothers' manic Duck Soup, which came out the following year..." New Yorker Magazine critic Pauline Kael named Million Dollar Legs as one of her favorite films, calling it a "lunatic musical satire".
Jack Oakie And W. C. Fields Star In This Classic Pre-Code Comedy Send-Up Of The 1932 Summer Olympics Held In Hollywood's Home Town Of Los Angeles! The Weird And Wonderful Comedy Caper Costarring Susan Fleming (Harpo Marx's Future And Only Wife, Whose Legs Were Insured For A Million Dollars For The Film!) And Femme Fatale Lyda Roberti About A Small European Country That Enters The 1932 Olympics To Win Money To Bail Them Out Of Bankruptcy, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! (Black/White, 1932, 1 Hour 4 Minutes.) #MillionDollarLegs #MillionDollarLegs1932 #MillionDollarLegs1932Film #EdwardFCline #JosephLMankiewicz #HenryMyers #JackOakie #WCFields #AndyClyde #LydaRoberti #SusanFleming #PreCodeHollywood #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Cinema #Hollywood #AmericanCinema #USCinema #CinemaOfTheUS #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
*July 26, 2025: Updated And Upgraded: Updated With Video Newly Redigitized In High Quality 9 Mbps DVD Video For Improved Image And Audio Quality, And Upgraded From A Standard Format DVD To An Archival Quality Dual Layer Format DVD!
Director:
Edward F. Cline
Writing:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Henry Myers
Cast:
Jack Oakie ... Migg Tweeny
W.C. Fields ... The President
Andy Clyde ... The Major-Domo
Lyda Roberti ... Mata Machree
Susan Fleming ... Angela
Ben Turpin ... Mysterious Man
Hugh Herbert ... Secretary of the Treasury
George Barbier ... Mr. Baldwin
Dickie Moore ... Willie - Angela's Brother
Million Dollar Legs is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields, directed by Edward F. Cline, produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz (co-writer of Citizen Kane) and B.P. Schulberg, co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was inspired by the 1932 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, California. According to Bill Marx, the adopted son of Harpo Marx and Susan Fleming, Mankiewicz originally developed this story with the intent of making it a Marx Brothers film, but they declined. As part of a publicity stunt for the film, Susan Fleming's legs were insured for the million dollars the film is named after. The New York Times' review described the film as "a hopefully mad sort of picture... where a series of comedians conducted themselves with a total lack of dignity." After a June 2010 screening in Tribeca, The New Yorker writer David Denby described the film's odd, fragmented structure as well as its overall surreal tone: "Million Dollar Legs...is about as close as Hollywood (in this case, Paramount) ever came to the spirit of Dada. The movie is so silly that it seems both artless and weirdly avant-garde, a style that the studios never quite explored again. Sequences begin and end abruptly; lovers talk parodistic nonsense to each other; Lyda Roberti, a comic dancer and singer with a delicious pan-European accent and alarmingly active hips (she makes Kim Cattrall look inhibited), turns up as a femme fatale, apparently based on Marlene Dietrich. The film bears some resemblance to the Marx Brothers' manic Duck Soup, which came out the following year..." New Yorker Magazine critic Pauline Kael named Million Dollar Legs as one of her favorite films, calling it a "lunatic musical satire".