I Dood It
I Dood It is the title of a 1943 musical-comedy motion picture produced by MGM and starring Red Skelton and 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, Hazel Scott, 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 lead 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.
External links
- I Dood It at the Internet Movie Database
| The films of Eleanor Powell |
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| Feature films Queen High (1930) | George White's 1935 Scandals (1935) | Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) | Born to Dance (1936) | Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) | Rosalie (1937) | Honolulu (1939) | Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) | Lady Be Good (1941) | Ship Ahoy (1942) | I Dood It (1943) | Thousands Cheer - cameo (1943) | Sensations of 1945 (1944) | The Great Morgan - cameo (1946) | Duchess of Idaho -cameo (1950) |
| Short films No Contest! (1934) | Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 12 (1936) | (1947) | (1948) | Have Faith in Our Children (1955) |
| Television series The Faith of Our Children (1953-1955) |
Categories
1943 films | Musical films | MGM films | Black and white films