International House

International House

68 mins | Comedy | May 27, 1933

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.

International House

68 mins | Comedy | May 27, 1933

International House
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Paramount
Original title International House
Directors A. Edward Sutherland
Writers Francis Martin, Walter DeLeon

Cast

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

as Peggy Hopkins Joyce

W.C. Fields

as Professor Quail

Rudy Vallee

as Himself

Stuart Erwin

as Tommy Nash

George Burns

as Doctor Burns

Gracie Allen

as Nurse Allen

Cab Calloway

as Cab Calloway

Bela Lugosi

as General Petronovich

Rose Marie

as Herself / Baby Rose Marie

Franklin Pangborn

as Hotel Manager

Edmund Breese

as Doctor Wong

Lumsden Hare

as Sir Mortimer Fortescue

Sterling Holloway

as Sailor

Lona Andre

as Chorus Queen

Wong Chung

as Health Inspector

Sari Martiza

as Carol Fortescue

Frederick Chase Taylor

as Colonel Stoopnagle