Million Dollar Legs (1939 film)

Not to be confused with Million Dollar Legs (1932 film).

Million Dollar Legs
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Directed by	Nick Grinde Edward Dmytryk (uncredited)
Produced by	William C. Thomas
Written by	Richard English Lewis R. Foster
Starring	Betty Grable Jackie Coogan
Music by	John Leipold
Cinematography	Harry Fischbeck
Edited by	Arthur P. Schmidt
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	July 14, 1939 (1939-07-14)
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Million Dollar Legs is a 1939 American comedy film starring Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Hartley and Donald O'Connor.

The film has no relation to the W. C. Fields movie from seven years earlier also entitled Million Dollar Legs.

Cast

• Betty Grable as Carol Parker
• John Hartley as Greg Melton Jr.
• Buster Crabbe as Coach Jordan (as Larry Crabbe)
• Donald O'Connor as Sticky Boone
• Jackie Coogan as Russ Simpson
• Dorothea Kent as Susie Quinn
• Joyce Mathews as Bunny Maxwell
• Peter Lind Hayes as Freddie 'Ten-Percent' Fry (as Peter Hayes)
• Richard Denning as Hunk Jordan
• Phil Warren as Buck Hogan
• Edward Arnold Jr. as Blimp Garrett
• Thurston Hall as Gregory Melton Sr.
• Roy Gordon as Dean Wixby
• Matty Kemp as Ed Riggs
• William Tracy as Egghead Jackson
• William Holden as Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)

Production

Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan were married at the time and had appeared together the previous year playing supporting roles in the musical comedy College Swing starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye and Bob Hope. Not long after this film, Twentieth Century-Fox insured Grable's legs for $1 million.

External links

• Million Dollar Legs at IMDb
• Million Dollar Legs at the TCM Movie Database
• Million Dollar Legs at AllMovie
• Million Dollar Legs at the American Film Institute Catalog