Main Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Arleen Whelan, Binnie Barnes
Release Year: 1938
Country: US
Run Time: 70 minutes
Plot
Thanks for Everything is an unjustly forgotten lampoon of media promotional stunts. Jack Haley wins a contest sponsored by an ad agency, which is looking for the perfect "average American." The contest's avaricious promoters (Adolphe Menjou and Jack Oakie) use poor Haley as a merchandising tool by having him endorse all sorts of products. When Haley's girl friend (Arleen Whelan) realizes that the hapless fellow is being exploited as a means of controlling the advertising industry, Haley insists that the promoters cease and desist or he'll blow the whistle. The promoters respond by discrediting Haley as a crackpot, but justice triumphs in the end. Thanks for Everything is capped by a bizarre sequence in which Menjou and Oakie convince Haley that World War II has broken out--a sequence filmed one year before this actually occurred! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Bernard Herzbrun - Art Director, Mark-Lee Kirk - Art Director, William Seiter - Director, Robert L. Simpson - Editor, Louis Silvers - Composer (Music Score), Louis Silvers - Musical Direction/Supervision, Mack Gordon - Songwriter, Harry Revel - Songwriter, Lucien Andriot - Cinematographer, Harry Joe Brown - Producer, Darryl F. Zanuck - Producer, Gilbert Wright - Screen Story, Art Arthur - Screenwriter, Harry Tugend - Screenwriter, Curtis Kenyon - Screenwriter
