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  Hellzapoppin' - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hellzapoppin' was a musical revue which was a Broadway hit, running from 22 September 1938 to 17 December 1941, and was at the time the longest-running Broadway musical with 1,404 performances—one of only three plays to run more than 500 performances in the 1930s.
A comedy hodgepodge full of sight gags and slapstick, the show was continually rewritten throughout its run to remain topical (its opening scene was Hitler speaking in a Yiddish accent).
In spite of this, the dance scenes from the movie are some of the most well-known Lindy Hop scenes from the Swing Era and they have made the film popular among modern lindy hoppers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hellzapoppin'   (385 words)

  
 Comedy Central: Hellzapoppin'
When Hellzapoppin' was optioned by Universal, the original intention was to film the play as it stood (minus the more ribald one-liners), but the studio got cold feet and grafted on a conventional plot and romantic interest.
The film's story concerns a musical show being staged at a fancy estate, and the romantic triangle of the show's producer (Robert Paige), the wealthy girl who lives at the estate (Jane Frazee), and the girl's erstwhile fiance (Lewis Howard).
While the movie version fails to completely capture the spirit of the original play (except in a bizarre opening sequence), and the finale is a major disappointment, Hellzapoppin remains one of the few sustained filmic examples of the "nut humor" exemplified by Olsen and Johnson.
www.comedycentral.com /movies/movie/61039/plot.jhtml   (348 words)

  
 Hellzapoppin, 1941, Martha Raye
Before 'Airplane' (aka 'Flying High'), before 'Blazing Saddles', before '1941' and in the year 1941, there was 'Hellzapoppin'', a madcap, zany, hilarious and addictive 'movie' (well, that's open to question, to quote from the script) based on a highly successful Broadway comedy of the same name.
The original stage production of Hellzapoppin' began in New York at the 46th Street Theatre on the 22nd of September, 1938, and ran for three years.
Hellzapoppin played at the Strand Theater in Marshalltown, Iowa in 1941, while I was the doorman (ticket taker).
www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com /hellzapoppin.html   (1337 words)

  
 The Basie Centennial Ball
Since 2002, Hellzapoppin' has been held as a part of the Harlem Jazz Dance Festival that celebrates all forms of American vernacular jazz dancing.
This year, the Hellzapoppin' US Nationals will take place on Oct 8-9th, 2004 with the finals held during the Basie Centennial Ball.
The two Hellzapoppin' champions will be picked by a panel of six former Harvest Moon Ball Champions.
www.yehoodi.com /basie100/dance.php   (1006 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Hellzapoppin' [1942]: Video: H.C. Potter,Ole Olsen (II),Chic Johnson,Martha Raye,Hugh Herbert,Jane ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hellzapoppin was originally a Broadway hit, and the film tells the story of a Hollywood studio attempting to make the film version.
It started as a hit stage show for comics Olson and Johnson, and when it was filmed, mutated into (and I quote the movie) "a picture about a picture about Hellzapoppin".
The movie is slightly hampered by a lot of show tunes (that said, you have to see the Lindyhopping sequence), but the insanity of Hellzapoppin remains.
www.amazon.co.uk /Hellzapoppin-H-C-Potter/dp/B00004R6PX   (941 words)

  
 Hellzapoppin' review by Jon Waterman
I wanted the film to return to the magic of the first fifteen-twenty minutes where anything could happen and it certainly could.
This is the best early example I know of (so far) that fully utilizes the medium as part of the art.
“Hellzapoppin’” is full of every kind of humor imaginable.
www.filmbrats.com /reviews/h/hellzabyjon.html   (616 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk Welcome: Amazon.co.uk / Hellzapoppin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hellzapoppin' [1942] by H.C. Potter, Ole Olsen (II), Chic Johnson, and Martha Raye (VHS Tape - 1999)
Hellzapoppin [Australian Import] by 3ds (Audio CD - 2004)
L'incontinente bianco (Hellzapoppin) by Giobbe Covatta (Unknown Binding - 2002)
www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Hellzapoppin&search-type=ss&tag=evaluebshop00-21&index=blended&dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE&link_code=qs&page=1   (132 words)

  
 Hellzapoppin' Lyrics - by Louis Armstrong : Lyrics And Songs
You are viewing lyrics of Hellzapoppin' by Louis Armstrong from the album UNKNOWN at LyricsAndSongs.COM
The Lyrics above are to Hellzapoppin' and are (Mostly correct, Yet...
The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to Hellzapoppin' But they are (Wrong)
www.lyricsandsongs.com /song/33576.html   (294 words)

  
 Al Minns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The group had until then mainly used old film clips as a source for their interpretation of Lindy Hop.
Film appearances: Hot Chocolates, Hellzapoppin', Spirit Moves, Chicago and All That Jazz.
Winner of the Harvest Moon Ball with Sandra Gibson (see Mildred Pollard) in 1938.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Minns   (177 words)

  
 Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons (Hellzapoppin Ridge)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 1st Marine Parachute Regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Williams, was informed, two days after its arrival on Bougainville, that General Turnage had assigned it to occupy those hills which IMAC felt still dominated much of the Marine ground.
That particular hump, which would get the apt name of Hellzapoppin Ridge, was some 280 feet high, 40 feet across at the top, and 650 feet long, and ideal position for over all defense.
With Hellzapoppin finally behind them, Marines could count what blessings they could find and recount how rotten their holidays were.
www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003141-00/sec10.htm   (2081 words)

  
 1930s Stage: Coward, Kern & Porter
The most successful Broadway production of the 1930s was Hellzapoppin' (1938 - 1,404), a rowdy hodgepodge of skits and routines created by the vaudeville comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson.
Opening with a mock newsreel in which Hitler spoke with a Yiddish accent, Hellzapoppin' combined slapstick stage acts with wild audience participation gags.
Hellzapoppin' became the longest running Broadway musical up to that time.
www.musicals101.com /1930bway3.htm   (749 words)

  
 About The Australian Hellzapoppin' Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Australian Hellzapoppin' Prize 2003 will be presented in conjunction with The Melbourne Lindy Exchange 2003 on Monday November 17 at 8pm at Central Hall, 20 Brunswick St Fitzroy.
The second annual AHP is a national contest to support the development of Australian Lindy Hop, and to encourage dancers from around the country to compete in the Hellzapoppin' World Championship.
The Australian Hellzapoppin' Prize is run in adherence to the rules and criteria of the HJDF, and endorsed by the American Institute for Vernacular Jazz Dance (AIVJD), founded by world-renowned Lindy Hopper Janice Wilson.
www.melbournelindyexchange.com /ahp/about.html   (151 words)

  
 Hellzapoppin' World Championships | SwingCity Melbourne (MLX 2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Hellzapoppin' World Championships will this year be held in Melbourne, Australia to coincide with SwingCity Melbourne.
If you would like to compete in Hellzapoppin' World Championships, or if you would just like to come and watch, we would love to see you there.
Australian Hellzapoppin' Prize: The highest ranked Australian couple will receive the Australian Hellzapoppin' Prize 2004, including two official trophies and two registrations to the Lismore Swing Dance Camp 2005.
www.swingcitymelbourne.com /hellzapoppin   (242 words)

  
 Swing Time: Hellzapoppin's eleventh anniversary.
Hellzapoppin' celebrated its eleventh anniversary with James Langton.
James Langton and His Solid Senders provided the live entertainment for a night of swing when Hellzapoppin' blew out eleven candles on the cake on Saturday 4 November.
The less-than-capacity crowd could be accounted for by the appearance of James Langton and his Solid Senders at The 100 Club (Thursday 23) and Jitterbugs (December 3) for around half the price of tonight's gig.
www.swingtime.co.uk /Reviews/clubs/Hell2000.html   (702 words)

  
 hellzapoppin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Several bombers carried the name "Hellzapoppin" during the war years - here are just a few of them.
This Lancaster was lost on the Cologne raid of 2nd March 1945, the last visit to this city by Bomber Command before the war in Europe ended.
An unknown Halifax, from an unknown Royal Canadian Air Force squadron of Bomber Command, with the legend "Hellzapoppin" painted over a bomb tally denoting six operations.
www.hellzapoppin.demon.co.uk /hellzapoppin.htm   (79 words)

  
 StreetSwing's Dance Archives - 1941 Hellzapoppin' - Main
No plot, Crazy as hell and anything goes at over 100 miles an hour with a cast of hundreds!.
Based on the hit Broadway play Hellzapoppin' which ran from 1938-1941.
The movie version fails to completely capture the spirit of the original play.
www.streetswing.com /films/video/f2_hellzapoppin.htm   (93 words)

  
 DC's TACT to Feature 'Elms,' Hellzapoppin, Etc. in '06-'07 (BroadwayWorld.com)
This is a play that reminds audiences of the important role theater has in defining the social tensions in America."  The exact dates will be announced.
Audiences were literally under assault during the original run, the victims of practical jokes, running gags, malfunctions and crazed intruders.
Hellzapoppin, for many years the longest-running production in Broadway history, is today remembered as the inspiration for the ‘60’s TV hit 'Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,' the comedy show 'Hee-Haw!' and Off-Broadway’s The Mad Show, which spawned 'Saturday Night Live.'" Tom Fuller will be the musical director.
www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=11075   (830 words)

  
 www.swingdjs.com :: View topic - Hellzapoppin
So...I was going to play the song from the hellzapoppin clip last night when I was djing but tested it out before the dance started and noticed that it was too distorted to play properly.
I thought the song in the film was overdubbed and that they danced to a different tune.
I know that A Day at the Races is an overdub, I don't think that hellzapoppin is.
www.swingdjs.com /phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=17   (1173 words)

  
 "Lonesome"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He worked with Abbott and Costello, and he also presided over the lunacies of Olsen and Johnson's "Hellzapoppin'" in 1941.
For a brief period he was married to "Hellzapoppin'" leading lady Jane Frazee.
In 1942, he moved back to Hal Roach as producer of a handful of 45-minute "streamliners," including the gloriously tasteless wartime farce "The Devil with Hitler." He occasionally was lured back before the cameras in the '40s before retiring from the screen.
www.silentsaregolden.com /DeBartoloreviews/rdblonesome.html   (1909 words)

  
 Anarchic comedy film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In such classics as The Bank Dick and Never Give A Sucker An Even Break, Fields perfected an everyman persona who fights the world of henpecking housewives, bumbling bureaucrats, and obnoxious children with made-up words, a shyster's sense of chicanery, and a steady stream of liquor.
The '40s produced Olsen and Johnson, two comedians whose Hellzapoppin' manages to spoof Hollywood musicals, the aristocracy, and the entire notion of narrative linearity, and whose Crazy House contains in its first fifteen minutes the wackiest comic business of the decade.
Also in this decade, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour started making the casually anarchic farces known as the "Road" pictures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anarchic_comedy_film   (926 words)

  
 Al Shaitan (Hellstorm character)
Hellzapoppin had a disco thing going on, while the Wasp Factory is a dark, gothic establishment.
Hellstorm felt right at home in the Wasp Factory, while at Hellzapoppin, he feared that an appearance by the BeeGees might be imminent.
Shaitan told her that he hadn't seen him for awhile.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/shaitana.htm   (447 words)

  
 Hullabaloo 2006: Australian Hellzapoppin' Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Please also note that the Australian Hellzapoppin' Prize is NOT a qualifying round for the Hellzapoppin' World Championship.
The Australian Hellzapoppin’ Prize is not a rules-based competition, but instead aims to capture the spirit of Lindy Hop.
The Australian Hellzapoppin' Prize consists of 3 preliminary heats (each with no more than 6 couples), a semi-final featuring 4-5 couples, and a final featuring 2 couples.
www.perthswing.com /hullabaloo/competitors.htm   (1243 words)

  
 Movies with Lindy Hop: Hellzapoppin'
An interesting sidenote: Whitey's Lindy Hoppers' routine in Hellzapoppin' was originally danced and choreographed to different music, namely "Jumping at the Woodside".
Universal Studios had a composer who was on staff write new music for the routine.
The unexcelled Lindy Hop sequence is excerpted in Call of the Jitterbug,and also in PBS Dancing 5: New Worlds, New Forms, which you can order through SavoyStyle, as well as National Geographic Explorer: Jitterbug, and the TV Show 20/20.
www.savoystyle.com /hellzapoppin.html   (349 words)

  
 Hellzapoppin'
What a smash, we're breakin' all that's breakable
There's no stoppin', hellzapoppin', why not drop in
What a gas, the cops will never quiet us
www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/newbonham/6/hellzapoppin.htm   (104 words)

  
 AMCTV.com SHOW - Hellzapoppin'
The King Cole Trio shows up, dressed as cooks, in See My Lawyer (1945), and Count Basie and Sherlock Holmes's Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce turn up in Crazy House (1943).
The comedy team is best remembered for the raucous Hellzapoppin', the 1941 film adaptation of their anything-goes Broadway hit that combined musical comedy, sight gags, audience-participation bits, and more than a few dirty jokes.
AMC Movie Camp: Make a movie in a week!
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=4598-1-EST   (126 words)

  
 TIME.com: Hellzapoppin' -- Aug. 6, 1956 -- Page 1
TIME.com: Hellzapoppin' -- Aug. 6, 1956 -- Page 1
"There's going to be hellzapoppin' in the steel industry all the rest of the year." So said Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace last week as the steel strike ended (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and he took a good look at piled-up demand.
Employment was at a peak; the demand for nondurable goods showed "little or no slackening"; the downslide in orders for durables "appears to have been arrested." Consumer purchasing, one of the economy's biggest props, had been helped by freer credit.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,862335,00.html   (411 words)

  
 Hellzapoppin News
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 HELLZAPOPPIN' 1941 + GROOVIE MOVIE 1942 - On DVD! Hellzapoppin Swing Dancing!
HELLZAPOPPIN' 1941 + JITTERBUG 1991 + GROOVIE MOVIE 1942
Olsen & Johnson comedy classic that showcases Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in the greatest Lindy Hop / Jitterbug sequence ever put on film!
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 IGN: IGN FilmForce Weekend Shopping Guide 7/30/04: Hellzapoppin'…
IGN: IGN FilmForce Weekend Shopping Guide 7/30/04: Hellzapoppin'…
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 Drag Racing Picture of the Day - Dave Cox's Hellzapoppin Altered
Drag Racing Picture of the Day - Dave Cox's Hellzapoppin Altered
The former primer red Flat Top is now the awesome Hellzapoppin.
Dave hopes lots of competitors get to read the words on the back.
www.draglist.com /Pictures/POD-Jun-2003/POD-061803.htm   (69 words)

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