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I Dood It is the title of a 1943 musical-comedy motion picture produced by MGM and starring Red Skelton and dancer Eleanor Powell. The rather ungrammatical title derives from one of Skelton's catchphrases of the day.

Skelton plays an "average Joe" who is madly in love with Constance Shaw (Powell), a big Broadway musical star. Much to his surprise, Constance agrees to marry him, thinking he's a rich mining tycoon, and much of the film deals with the consequences of this misunderstanding. Co-starring in this slight MGM musical were Richard Ainley and Patricia Dane. Lena Horne and Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra provide musical interludes. Powell's most notable performance in the film comes near the beginning when she executes a complex dance routine involving lariats and cowboys. (Powell, in her introduction to the book Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, recalled that she knocked herself unconscious while rehearsing a stunt for this sequence involving a rope and ultimately had to don a football helmet to protect herself.)

Skelton and Powell had previously worked together in 1942's Ship Ahoy
. In that film, they appeared with Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy's brother.

This was Powell's final starring role in an MGM film. After this, she would make a cameo appearance in Thousands Cheer
, play a small role in the non-MGM film Sensations of 1945
, and make another cameo in the 1950 MGM film, Duchess of Idaho
before retiring from the screen for good.

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