Queen High is the title of an early musical

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

-comedy

Comedy

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 produced by Paramount Pictures

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 in 1930

1930 in film

-Events:* November 1: The Big Trail featuring a young John Wayne in his first starring role is released in both 35mm, and a very early form of 70mm film and was the first large scale big-budget film of the sound era costing over $2 million. The film was praised for its aesthetic quality and realism...

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Based upon a stage musical by Buddy DeSylva, Lewis Gensler, and Laurence Schwab, the storyline loosely concerns a rivalry between two businessmen that results in a game of poker

Poker

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. Whoever loses the game becomes the winner's servant for a year.

The film stars Charlie Ruggles, Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan

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, and Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

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 in an early film appearance.

Making her very first film appearance in an uncredited bit part is famed tap dancer Eleanor Powell

Eleanor Powell

Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.-Early life:...

, whose career in musicals wouldn't take off for another five years. Powell was appearing on Broadway in a show entitled Follow Thru at the time, and a segment of the show was filmed for the movie.

Cast

• Charles Ruggles
  Charles Ruggles
  Charles Sherman “Charlie” Ruggles was a comic American actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films. He was also the brother of director, producer, and silent actor Wesley Ruggles .-Background:Charlie Ruggles was born in Los Angeles, California in 1886...
  
   - T. Boggs Johns
• Frank Morgan
  Frank Morgan
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   - Mr. Nettleton
• Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
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   - Polly Rockwell
• Stanley Smith - Dick Johns
• Helen Carrington - Mrs. Nettleton
• Rudolph Cameron - Cyrus Vanderholt
• Betty Garde
  Betty Garde
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   - Florence Cole
• Theresa Maxwell Conover - Mrs. Rockwell
• Nina Olivette
  Nina Olivette
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   - Coddles
• Tom Brown
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   - Jimmy
• Edith Sheldon - Dancer
• Theresa Klee -
• Dorothy Walters
  Dorothy Walters
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• Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.-Early life:...
  
  - Dancer (uncredited)

Soundtrack

• "Everything Will Happen for the Best"

Written by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lewis E. Gensler

• "Brother, Just Laugh It Off"

Written by Arthur Schwartz and Ralph Rainger

• "I'm Afraid of You"

Written by Arthur Schwartz and Ralph Rainger

• "It Seems to Me"

Written by Howard Dietz (as Dick Howard) and Ralph Rainger

• "I Love the Girls in My Own Peculiar Way"

Written by E.Y. Harburg and Henry Souvaine