Comedy Romance Crime
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Aldrich Bowker
Justice of the Peace
Tully Marshall
Prof. Robinson
Richard Haydn
Prof. Oddly
Dana Andrews
Joe Lilac
Gary Cooper
Professor Bertram Potts
Barbara Stanwyck
Sugarpuss O’Shea
Pat Flaherty
Deputy (uncredited)
Elisha Cook Jr.
Waiter
Bert Stevens
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Charles Lane
Larsen
Leonid Kinskey
Prof. Quintana
William H. O'Brien
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
Dan Duryea
Duke Pastrami
Addison Richards
District Attorney
S.Z. Sakall
Prof. Magenbruch
Ethelreda Leopold
Nursemaid at Park (uncredited)
Allen Jenkins
Garbage Man
Tim Ryan
Motor Policeman
Oskar Homolka
Prof. Gurkakoff
Charles Arnt
McNeary
Jack Perry
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
Asthma Anderson
Eddy Chandler
Cop on Garbage Truck (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Lynne Roberts
Veiled Woman in Gene Krupa’s Audience (uncredited)
Henry Travers
Prof. Jerome
Kenneth Howell
College Boy
Aubrey Mather
Prof. Peagram
Pat West
Bum
Russell Wade
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Kathleen Howard
Miss Bragg
Lorraine Miller
Girl in Café (uncredited)
Will Lee
“Benny — the Creep”
Otto Hoffman
Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Gene Krupa
Himself — Orchestra Leader
Gerald Pierce
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Martha Tilton
Sugarpuss O'Shea (singing voice) (uncredited)
Tommy Ryan
Newsboy
Roy Eldridge
Trumpeter (uncredited)
Hal McIntyre
Saxaphonist (uncredited)
Mary Field
Miss Totten
Alan Rhein
'Horseface'
Eddie Foster
Pinstripe
George Barton
Garbage Man (uncredited)
Doria Caron
Girl in Subway (uncredited)
Ken Christy
Cop with Ms. Bragg (uncredited)
Edward Clark
Motor Court Proprietor (uncredited)
Yvonne Duval
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Joyce Matthews
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Patsy Moran
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Mildred Morris
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Edward Mundy
Spieler (uncredited)
Francis Sayles
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Helen Seamon
College Girl (uncredited)
George Sherwood
Deputy (uncredited)
Walter Shumway
Garbage Man (uncredited)
Chalky Williams
Cop (uncredited)
John Alban
Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
Tex Brodus
Passerby (uncredited)
Chet De Vito
Tollkeeper (uncredited)
Geraldine Fissette
Hula Dancer (uncredited)
Laura Gile
Date of Prof. Bertram Potts (uncredited)
George Golden
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Catherine Henderson
College Girl (uncredited)
June Horne
Nursemaid at Park (uncredited)
Merrillee Lannon
Girl in Subway (uncredited)
Jean MacMurray
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Mike Morelli
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)

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