Mississippi (1935)
March 22, 1935Release Date
Mississippi (1935)
March 22, 1935Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Bing Crosby
Tom Grayson
W.C. Fields
Commodore Jackson
Joan Bennett
Lucy
Gail Patrick
Elvira
Queenie Smith
Alabam
Claude Gillingwater
Gen. Rumford
A. Edward Sutherland
Director
John Miljan
Major Patterson
Wesley Ruggles
Director
Jan Duggan
Thrilled Passenger in Pilot House
Francis Martin
Writer
Fred Kohler
Captain Blackie (as Captain Blackie Jr.)
Jack Cunningham
Writer
Herbert Fields
Writer
Edward Pawley
Joe Patterson
Paul Hurst
Hefty
Claude Binyon
Writer
Theresa Maxwell Conover
Miss Markham
John Larkin
Rumbo
Libby Taylor
Lavinia
King Baggot
Gambler
Mahlon Hamilton
Gambler
Albert Richman
Gambler
Francis McDonald
Gambler
Jean Rouverol
Schoolgirl
Ann Sheridan
Schoolgirl (uncredited) / Schoolgirl
Eddie Sturgis
Gambler
Bruce Covington
Colonel
Jules Cowles
Bartender
Clarence Geldart
Hotel proprietor
J.P. McGowan
Dealer
Harry Cody
Second bartender
Media.
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Wiki.
Mississippi is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and Joan Bennett. Written by Francis Martin and Jack Cunningham based on the novel Magnolia by Booth Tarkington, the film is about a young pacifist who, after refusing on principle to defend his sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer and acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which a villain accidentally kills himself with his own gun. The film was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Mississippi has the distinction of being the only W.C. Fields film with a score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. It is also the only film in which Fields co-starred with Crosby. Photographed by Charles Lang, the film featured art direction by Hans Dreier and Bernard Herzbrun and was edited by Chandler House. The sound man was Eugene Merritt. The original running time of this black-and-white film was 80 minutes. The film has been released on VHS and DVD as part of the W.C. Fields Collection in the United Kingdom.