I Dood It
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| Directed by | Vincente Minnelli |
| Written by | Sig Herzig Fred Saidy |
| Starring | Red Skelton Eleanor Powell Richard Ainley Patricia Dane |
| Distributed by | MGM Loew's |
| Release date(s) | September 1943 |
| Running time | 102 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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I Dood It is a 1943 American musical-comedy film.
The rather ungrammatical title was thought to have been derived from one of star Red Skelton's own catchphrases of the day, but instead it came from the song "I Dood It! (If I Do, I Get A Whippin')," written by Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner, especially for Skelton in 1942.
Skelton plays an "average Joe" who is madly in love with Constance Shaw (Eleanor Powell), a big Broadway musical star. Much to his surprise, Constance agrees to marry him, thinking he's a rich mining tycoon, and much of the film deals with the consequences of this misunderstanding.
The screenplay by Fred Saidy and Sig Herzig was directed by Vincente Minnelli. Co-starring in the MGM film are Richard Ainley and Patricia Dane, and Lena Horne, Hazel Scott, and Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra provide musical interludes.
Powell's most notable performance in the film comes near the beginning when she executes a complex dance routine involving lariats and cowboys. Powell, in her introduction to the book Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, recalled that she knocked herself unconscious while rehearsing a stunt for this sequence involving a rope and ultimately had to don a football helmet to protect herself.
Skelton and Powell had previously worked together in 1942's Ship Ahoy. In that film, they appeared with Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy's brother.
This was Powell's final starring role in an MGM film. After this, she would make a cameo appearance in Thousands Cheer, play a lead role in the non-MGM film Sensations of 1945, and make another cameo in the 1950 MGM film, Duchess of Idaho before retiring from the screen for good.
[edit] External links
- I Dood It at the Internet Movie Database
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