Louisiana Purchase
WHERE THERE'S HOPE...THERE'S LIFE AND LAUGHTER!
1941 · 1h 38m · APPROVED
Comedy, Music
Directed by
Irving Cummings
Overview
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Director and cast
- Irving Cummings Director
- Bob Hope as Jim Taylor
- Vera Zorina as Marina Von Minden
- Victor Moore as Sen. Oliver P. Loganberry
- Irène Bordoni as Madame Yvonne Bordelaise
- Dona Drake as Beatrice
- Raymond Walburn as Col. Davis Sr. aka Polar Bear
- Maxie Rosenbloom as The Shadow aka Wilson (as Maxie Rosenbloom)
- Phyllis Ruth as Emmy Lou
- Frank Albertson as Robert Davis, Jr.
- Donald MacBride Cast
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