Mississippi
Mississippi is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and Joan Bennett. Written by Francis Martin and Jack Cunningham based on the novel Magnolia by Booth Tarkington, the film is about a young pacifist who, after refusing on principle to defend his sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer and acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which a villain accidentally kills himself with his own gun. The film was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
Commodore Jackson (W. C. Fields) is the captain of a Mississippi showboat in the late nineteenth century. Tom Grayson (Bing Crosby) is engaged to be married and has been disgraced for refusing to fight a duel with Major Patterson (John Miljan).
Cast
- Ann Sheridan
- Bing Crosby
- Charles King
- Claude Gillingwater
- Dennis O'Keefe
- Edward Pawley
- Forrest Taylor
- Francis McDonald
- Fred Kohler
- Gail Patrick
- Harry Myers
- J. P. McGowan
- Jack Mulhall
- Jerome Storm
- Joan Bennett
- John Miljan
- King Baggot
- Mabel Van Buren
- Mahlon Hamilton
- Paul Hurst
- Queenie Smith
- Stanley Andrews
- Victor Potel
- W. C. Fields
More details
| author | Claude Binyon Francis Martin Jack Cunningham |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Mississippi |
| director | A. Edward Sutherland Wesley Ruggles |
| editor | Chandler House |
| genre | comedy historical romance |
| keywords | disgrace engage how to indian tribe married nineteenth century river sight gag sing |
| musicBy | Lorenz Hart Richard Rodgers |
| producer | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | musical musical comedy romantic comedy romantic musical |