Main Cast: Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, Thelma Todd, Gregory Ratoff
Release Year: 1933
Country: US
Run Time: 85 minutes
Plot
No relation to the later Clifton Webb vehicle of the same name, Sitting Pretty is a dated but likable film about the songwriting racket. Jack Oakie and Jack Haley play a pair of would-be tunesmiths who team up with aspiring dancer Ginger Rogers. Through the kindness of a tippling director (Lew Cody), the trio is given a bid for stardom in a movie musical directed by an excitable Russian (Gregory Ratoff). The characters played by Oakie and Haley were loosely based on Paramount's real-life songwriting team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who show up in bit parts. Sitting Pretty is the film that introduced the sprightly tune "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
David S. Garber - Art Director, Larry Ceballos - Choreography, Travis Banton - Costume Designer, Harry Joe Brown - Director, Howard Jackson - Musical Direction/Supervision, Mack Gordon - Songwriter, Harry Revel - Songwriter, Milton Krasner - Cinematographer, Charles R. Rogers - Producer, Lou Breslow - Screenwriter, Jack McGowan - Screenwriter, S.J. Perelman - Screenwriter, Nina Wilcox Putnam - Short Story Author
