Sitting Pretty

Nov 23, 1933

1h 25m

★ 7.5

Just a couple of song writers with a baby grand...and a grand baby...

Overview

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Sitting Pretty Trailers

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Cast

Chick Parker

Jack Oakie

Pete Pendleton

Jack Haley

Dorothy

Ginger Rogers

Tannenbaum

Gregory Ratoff

Gloria Duval

Thelma Todd

Jules Clark

Lew Cody

Buzz

Jerry Tucker

Pickens Sisters

Helen Pickens

Pickens Sisters

Jane Pickens

Pickens Sisters

Patti Pickens

Dice Player (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Mover Foreman (uncredited)

James P. Burtis

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