Let's Go Native

Aug 15, 1930

1h 17m

★ 7.5

Paramount's wild, merry, mad hilarious farce!

Overview

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

Genres

Music

Comedy

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Let's Go Native Trailers

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Cast

Voltaire McGinnis

Jack Oakie

Joan Wood

Jeanette MacDonald

Jerry, King of the Island

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Wally Wendell

James Hall

Basil Pistol

William Austin

Constance Cook

Kay Francis

Chief Officer Williams

David Newell

Wallace Wendell Sr.

Charles Sellon

Deputy Sheriff 'Careful' Cuthbert

Eugene Pallette

Island Girl (uncredited)

Iris Adrian

Argentine Producers' Representative (uncredited)

Rafael Alcayde

Mover (uncredited)

Earl Askam

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