International House

Grand Hotel of comedy

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.

1933

1h 8min

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Top Billed Cast

Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
W.C. Fields
Professor Quail
Rudy Vallee
Himself
Stuart Erwin
Tommy Nash
George Burns
Doctor Burns
Gracie Allen
Nurse Allen
Sari Maritza
Carol Fortescue
F. Chase Taylor
Colonel Stoopnagle
Budd Hulick
Budd
Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
Bela Lugosi
General Petronovich
Rose Marie
Herself / Baby Rose Marie
Franklin Pangborn
Hotel Manager
Edmund Breese
Doctor Wong
Lumsden Hare
Sir Mortimer Fortescue
Sterling Holloway
Sailor
Lona Andre
Chorus Queen
Harrison Greene
Herr Von Baden
Wong Chung
Health Inspector

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