Hellzapoppin' (film)

Hellzapoppin'
Hellzapoppin'
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	H. C. Potter; Joseph A. McDonough (assistant); Eddie Cline (retakes);
Written by	Nat Perrin; Warren Wilson; Alex Gottlieb (uncredited);
Produced by	Alex Gottlieb; Jules Levey (uncredited); Glenn Tryon;
Starring	Ole Olsen; Chic Johnson;
Cinematography	Elwood Bredell
Edited by	Milton Carruth; Ted J. Kent (uncredited);
Music by	Charles Previn (musical director); Frank Skinner (musical score); Ted Cain (music supervisor); Don Raye and Gene DePaul (original songs);
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	December 25, 1941 (Premiere); December 26, 1941;
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.7 million (US rentals)

Hellzapoppin' is a 1941 American musical comedy film, and an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name that ran on Broadway from 1938 to 1941. The film was directed by H. C. Potter and distributed by Universal Pictures. Although the entire Broadway cast was initially slated to feature in the film, the only performers from the stage production to appear in the film were lead actors Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, Katherine Johnson (Mrs. Chic Johnson, as the woman perpetually yelling for "Oscar"), and the specialty act Whitey's Lindy Hoppers.

Alongside Olsen and Johnson, both of whom produced and starred in the Broadway musical, the cast of Hellzapoppin' includes Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Mischa Auer, Shemp Howard, and the musical duo Slim & Slam. The film is deliberately nonsensical, with the comedians stopping the film to address both the movie audience and the projection booth (breaking the fourth wall); trick photography embellishing the visual gags; and the traditional romantic subplot ridiculed as it unfolds.

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