Queen High
About Queen High
Two partners in a ladies' garter business cannot stop fighting. Their lawyer will not simply dissolve the firm. He has them cut one hand of poker: the loser must serve the winner as a personal manservant for a year.
Cast & crew
More about Queen High
Fred C. Newmeyer directed. Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab produced. William O. Steiner photographed it, and Barney Rogan edited it. Paramount released it on August 23, 1930. It comes from the 1926 Broadway musical Queen High, which Buddy DeSylva, Lewis Gensler, and Laurence Schwab took from Edward Peple's 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes.
Themes
Making
The company shot the musical at its Astoria studio in Queens, and brought in a piece of Powell's current Broadway show rather than staging a new number for her.
Look
William O. Steiner photographed the film at Astoria Studios.
Music
Al Goodman and Johnny Green are credited for the music, carried over from the Broadway score's stage material.
Preservation
A copy is held at the Library of Congress. Paramount sold the film to Universal with a large block of other titles.
Notes
- Charles Ruggles and Frank Morgan play the feuding partners. Ginger Rogers, still in her teens, plays Polly Rockwell.
- Eleanor Powell's first film appearance is an uncredited dance bit. She was in the Broadway show Follow Thru, and a segment of that show was filmed for Queen High.
- Al Goodman and Johnny Green are credited with the music.
- Paramount later sold the picture to Universal with hundreds of other titles. A copy is at the Library of Congress.
Scenes
- The lawyer makes the two partners cut cards: the loser will serve the winner for a year.
Influenced by
- A Pair of Sixes (Edward Peple)
- Queen High (1926 stage musical)
