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International House was a comedy film released in 1933, directed by A. Edward Sutherland. The tagline of the film was “Grand Hotel of comedy”.

Notable members of the cast were:

Peggy Hopkins Joyce
(appeared as herself)
W.C. Fields
Rudy Vallee (appeared as himself)
Stuart Erwin
George Burns
and Gracie Allen
Sari Maritza
F. Chase Taylor and Budd Hulick (radio comedians "Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd")
Cab Calloway (appeared as himself)
Bela Lugosi
Rose Marie
(appeared as herself, "Baby Rose Marie")
Franklin Pangborn
Edmund Breese
Lumsden Hare

The film was a mix of numerous acts and bits, like a Vaudeville variety show, interlaced through the ostensible plot line, which had to do with a Chinese inventor trying to sell an early version of television. In addition to the typical Fieldsian comic lunacy, it also provides a snapshot of some popular stage and radio acts of the era, in the style of the Big Broadcast
pictures that were also released during the 1930s.

The film was produced in the days before the Hays Office fully controlled filmmaking, and was notable for several risqué or questionable references (by 1933 standards). The most interesting of these, to film historians, is probably Calloway's song Reefer Man, in which he sings about another musician who is "high" on "reefers".

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