I Dood It
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| Directed by | Vincente Minnelli |
| Produced by | Jack Cummings |
| Written by |
Sig Herzig Fred Saidy |
| Starring |
Red Skelton Eleanor Powell |
| Cinematography | Ray June Charles Rosher |
| Edited by | Robert Kern |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,135,000 |
| Box office | $2,157,000 |
I Dood It (1943) is a musical-comedy film starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay is by Fred Saidy and Sig Herzig and the film features Richard Ainley, Patricia Dane, Lena Horne, and Hazel Scott. John Hodiak plays a villain in this production, just his third movie role. Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra provide musical interludes.
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.
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. The final dance scene with Powell was lifted from an earlier movie Born to Dance (1936). Many of the physical gags were lifted from the Buster Keaton film Spite Marriage (1929). Keaton had an uncredited role in writing gags for some of Skelton's early MGM films.
Skelton and Powell had previously worked together in Ship Ahoy (1942). In that film, they appeared with Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy's brother.
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