Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick

Slapstick

Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.- Origins :The phrase comes from the batacchio or bataccio — called the 'slap stick' in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in Commedia dell'arte...

 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 film starring Bert Wheeler

Wheeler & Woolsey

Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were a famous American film comedy team of the 1930s....

, Robert Woolsey

Robert Woolsey

Robert Woolsey was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey....

, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd

Thelma Alice Todd was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy...

, and Dorothy Lee

Dorothy Lee

Dorothy Lee was an American actress and comedian during the 1930s, usually appearing alongside the popular Wheeler & Woolsey comedy team....

. During its initial theatrical run, it was preceded by the two-color Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

 short Not Tonight, Josephine directed by Edward F. Cline.

Plot

Todd stars as Amelia Frisby, the owner of a beauty supply business. Andy Williams (Wheeler) and Dr. Bob Dudley (Woolsey) convince her to hire them as salesman to promote her new flavored lipstick, and hilarity ensues. The film features Etting singing "Keep Romance Alive" and Bert Wheeler and Dorothy Lee

Dorothy Lee

Dorothy Lee was an American actress and comedian during the 1930s, usually appearing alongside the popular Wheeler & Woolsey comedy team....

 singing "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" by Bert Kalmar

Bert Kalmar

Bert Kalmar was a Jewish American lyricist.He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business...

 and Harry Ruby

Harry Ruby

Harry Ruby was a Jewish American songwriter and screenwriter.After failing in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player,...

. ("Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" was originally intended for The Marx Brothers

Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950...

' 1933 film, Duck Soup).

Cast

• Bert Wheeler.....Andy Williams
• Robert Woolsey.....Dr. Bob Dudley
• Dorothy Lee
  Dorothy Lee
  Dorothy Lee was an American actress and comedian during the 1930s, usually appearing alongside the popular Wheeler & Woolsey comedy team....
  
  .....Daisy Maxwell
• Thelma Todd.....Amelia Frisby
• Ruth Etting.....Ruth Etting
• Phyllis Barry
  Phyllis Barry
  Phyllis Barry was an English film actress. Born in Leeds, England, Barry appeared in over 40 films between 1932 and 1947.-Career:...
  
  .....Madame Irene
• Matt Briggs.....Det. Epstein
• James P. Burtis.....Detective Sweeney
• Spencer Charters
  Spencer Charters
  Spencer Charters was an American film actor. He appeared in over 220 films between 1920 and 1943.He was born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, and died in Hollywood, California by suicide, from a mix of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning.His first stage work soon after leaving school was a...
  
  .....Clark
• George Meeker
  George Meeker
  George Meeker was an American character movie and Broadway actor who became more of a legend off-camera than on. Meeker made several movies such as Crime Inc. , and Thief in the Dark and played an uncredited part in All Through the Night .Meeker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.-External...
  
  .....Armand Beauchamp