International House (1933)

5.5/10 68 min Comedy

Overview

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.

Cast

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

W.C. Fields

Professor Quail

Rudy Vallee

Himself

Stuart Erwin

Tommy Nash

George Burns

Doctor Burns

Gracie Allen

Nurse Allen

Sari Maritza

Carol Fortescue

F. Chase Taylor

Colonel Stoopnagle

Budd Hulick

Budd

Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

Bela Lugosi

General Petronovich

Rose Marie

Herself / Baby Rose Marie

Franklin Pangborn

Hotel Manager

Edmund Breese

Doctor Wong

Lumsden Hare

Sir Mortimer Fortescue

Sterling Holloway

Sailor

Lona Andre

Chorus Queen

Wong Chung

Health Inspector

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