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Million Dollar Legs (1939 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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'.
Plot summary
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.
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