Let's Go Native, is a 1930 American black-and-white musical

Musical film

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 comedy film

Comedy film

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, directed by Leo McCarey

Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies...

 and released by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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.

A very memorable, witty quote is when Jerry comments on being the only man on an island populated by women. Jerry: "It was one of the Virgin Islands, but it drifted."

The tagline was: "Paramount's wild, merry, mad hilarious farce!"

Cast

• Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie
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   - Voltaire McGinnis
• Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
  
   - Joan Wood
• Richard "Skeets" Gallagher
  Richard "Skeets" Gallagher
  Richard "Skeets" Gallagher was an American actor.He was educated at Rose Polytechnic Institute and Indiana University. He first studied civil engineering and then to become a lawyer but ended up on the stage...
  
   - Jerry, King of the Island
• James Hall
  James Hall
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   - Wally Wendell
• William Austin - Basil Pistol
• Kay Francis
  Kay Francis
  Kay Francis was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress...
  
   - Constance Cook
• David Newell
  David Newell
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   - Chief Officer Williams
• Charles Sellon
  Charles Sellon
  Charles Sellon was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 108 films and stage acts between 1901 and 1935. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in La Crescenta, California. His grave is located in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
   - Wallace Wendell Sr.
• Eugene Pallette
  Eugene Pallette
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   - Deputy Sheriff 'Careful' Cuthbert
• Iris Adrian
  Iris Adrian
  Iris Adrian was an American film actress.-Life and career:Born in Los Angeles, California as Iris Hostetter, Adrian won a beauty pageant and worked with the Ziegfeld Follies, before she entered films at the end of the silent era in Chasing Husbands and appeared as an extra or chorus girl in early...
  
   - Chorus Girl
• Virginia Bruce
  Virginia Bruce
  Virginia Bruce was an American actress and singer.-Career:Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she went with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That...
  
   - Chorus Girl

Soundtrack

• "It Seems To Be Spring"

Lyrics by George Marion Jr.

Music by Richard A. Whiting

Copyright 1930 by Famous Music Corp.

• "Let's Go Native"

Lyrics by George Marion Jr.

Music by Richard A. Whiting

Copyright 1930 by Famous Music Corp.

• "My Mad Moment"

Lyrics by George Marion Jr.

Music by Richard A. Whiting

Copyright 1930 by Famous Music Corp.

• "I've Gotta Yen For You"

Lyrics by George Marion Jr.

Music by Richard A. Whiting

Copyright 1930 by Famous Music Corp.

Sung by Jack Oakie

• "Joe Jazz"

Lyrics by George Marion Jr.

Music by Richard A. Whiting

Copyright 1930 by Famous Music Corp.

Sung by Jack Oakie

• "Pampa Rose"

Lyrics by George Marion Jr.

Music by Richard A. Whiting

Copyright 1930 by Famous Music Corp.

• "Don't I Do?"

Lyrics by George Marion Jr.

Music by Richard A. Whiting

Copyright 1930 by Famous Music Corp.

External links

• Let's Go Native at the Jeannette and Nelson website
• Let's Go Native at OV Guide
• Let's Go Native at the NNDB database
• Let's Go Native at NYTimes
• Let's Go Native at Answers.com
• Let's Go Native at Google Books