Marjorie Brandon appears to be looking for divine guidance upon realizing that her costume for Hips Hips Hooray (1934) might prove to be something of a challenge. (A Saturday Night Thread)
Marjorie finds strategic use of her matching leopard skin purse in photos for the very pre-Code Hips Hips Hooray (1934). At least they gave her a belt in one photo (L):
More Marjorie and a still with the film’s two headlining stars Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. And, as Freud might admit, sometimes a cigar and a banana are just a cigar and banana.
“The world’s wittiest nit-wits” brags the Hips Hips Hooray lobby card of Wheeler and Woolsey, also seen in a still (R). One critic opined that the “fairly generously-endowed medley of eccentric dancing, buffoonery and burlesque" was enough to provide viewers “much merriment.”
Hips Hips Hooray! (1934), as did numerous films of the era now considered classics, took advantage of the laxness of Hayes Code enforcement to present a bevy of starlets who seem to spend most of the their time in their underwear or revealing showgirl costumes:
More interesting outfits for Hips Hips Hooray (1934): Doris McMahon (L) in what is purported to be an “apron” and Ruth Stevens (R) making the most of some greenery.
One highlight of a film that turned out to be both meandering and generally unfunny was the wonderfully brassy comedic presence of Thelma Todd.
In one scene in Hips Hips Hooray (1934), the duo decide to test the flavors of their new lipsticks with some of the young ladies trying them out. We’ll leave the interpretation of Woolsey’s body language to Dr. Freud once again.
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