Umpa

Umpa

16 mins | Nov. 24, 1933

Dialogue and songs are all in rhyme (including one identical song), in the manner of later Columbia film "The Women Haters." Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses.

Umpa

16 mins | Nov. 24, 1933

Umpa
Dialogue and songs are all in rhyme (including one identical song), in the manner of later Columbia film "The Women Haters." Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses.
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Umpa
Directors Sidney D. Mitchell, Archie Gottler, Conrad Goode
Writers

Cast

Jack Osterman

as Mr. Umpa, medical patient

Lois January

as Nurse

Gloria Shea

as Blonde nurse, Mr. Umpa's girl

Gus Reed

as Dr. Truly A. Singer

Donald Roberts

as Judge

Samuel Adams

as Policeman at trial