- Hotel Haywire
Infobox Film
name = Hotel Haywire
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director =Arthur Archainbaud
producer =Paul Jones
Henry Henigson "(uncredited)"
writer =Preston Sturges Lillie Hayward "(uncredited)"
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starring =Leo Carillo Lynne Overman Spring Byington
Benny Baker
Colette Lyons
music = John Leipold "(uncredited)"
cinematography = Henry Sharp
editing =Arthur P. Schmidt
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released =4 June fy|1937
runtime = 66 minutes
country = FilmUS
language = English
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imdb_id = 0029024"Hotel Haywire" is a fy|1937
comedy film written byPreston Sturges with uncredited rewrites byLillie Hayward . It was directed byArthur Archainbaud and starsLeo Carillo ,Lynne Overman ,Spring Byington , Benny Baker and Colette Lyons.Plot
Dentist Henry Parkhouse (
Lynne Overman ) and his wife Minerva (Spring Byington ) have a perfect marriage until a practical joke backfires and she finds a lady's chemise in his coat pocket. Wife and husband both consult Dr. Zodiac Z. Zippe (Leo Carillo ) about what to do, and vaudevillians-turned-detectives Bertie and Genevieve Sterns (Benny Baker and Collette Lyons) get involved as well. On his lawyer's advice, Henry rents a hotel room to set up a compromising situation, only the Parkhouses' daughter Phyllis (Mary Carlisle ) is in the same hotel to elope with Frank Ketts (John Patterson ), and plans to get married in the room next to Henry's. When Judge Sterling Newhall (Porter Hall ) shows up to officiate, he knocks on Henry's door looking for a witness. Eventually, Henry and Minnie make up, Frank and Phyliis get married, and Dr. Zippe is run out of town. [TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=78476&category=Full%20Synopsis Full synopsis] ] Erickson, Hal [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:95685 Plot synopsis (Allmovie)] ]Cast
Cast notes:
*Leo Carrillo is best remembered today for playing "Pancho" on the TV series "The Cisco Kid ".Leo Carrillo State Park nearMalibu, California is named after him. [imdb name|0140504|Leo Carillo]
*Franklin Pangborn , who would go on to be one of the character actors frequently used byPreston Sturges in the movies he wrote and directed, has a small uncredited part as a Fuller Brush Man. [imdb name|0659427|Franklin Pangborn]Production
Preston Sturges was paid $17,500 by Paramount to write "Hotel Haywire" forCharlie Ruggles ,Mary Boland ,George Burns andGracie Allen . When Burns and Allen left the studio and the film was recast,Lillie Hayward was brought in to do rewrites.TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=78476&category=Notes Notes] ]Some of the scenes in "Hotel Haywire" were filmed at the
Glendale, California train station.Notes
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