Pre Code Hollywood Season: FD Cinematheque
Let’s Go Native (1930)
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald, Kay Francis, Richard Skeets Gallagher, James Hall, William Austin, David Newell, Charles Sellon, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Bruce, John Elliott, Douglas Haig
77 min
Let’s Go Native is a 1930 American Pre-Code black-and-white musical comedy film, directed by Leo McCarey and released by Paramount Pictures.
Jerry comments on being the only man on an island populated by women, “It was one of the Virgin Islands, but it drifted.” The tagline was: “Paramount’s wild, merry, mad hilarious farce!”
Cast
- Jack Oakie – Voltaire McGinnis
- Jeanette MacDonald – Joan Wood
- Richard “Skeets” Gallagher – Jerry, King of the Island
- James Hall – Wally Wendell
- William Austin – Basil Pistol
- Kay Francis – Constance Cook
- David Newell – Chief Officer Williams
- Charles Sellon – Wallace Wendell Sr.
- Eugene Pallette – Deputy Sheriff ‘Careful’ Cuthbert
- Iris Adrian – Chorus Girl
- Virginia Bruce – 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.
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