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Whoopee! is a 1928 musical comedy play with a book based on Owen Davis's play, The Nervous Wreck. The musical libretto was written by William Anthony McGuire, with music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1928, starring Eddie Cantor, and introduced the hit song "Love Me or Leave Me", sung by Ruth ...
Whoopee! is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy musical Western film photographed in two-color Technicolor. It was directed by Thornton Freeland and stars Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta and Eleanor Hunt. The film's plot closely follows that of the 1928 stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld.
"Makin' Whoopee" is a song first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical. The title refers to celebrating a marriage. Eventually "making whoopee" became a euphemism for intimate sexual relations. [1]
Whoopee or whoopie / ˈ (h) w ʊ p i / may refer to: Whoopee / ˌ (h) w ʊ ˈ p iː /, an exclamation used as a form of cheering or to express jubilation; Whoopee or whoopie, a euphemism for sexual intercourse; Whoopee!, a 1928 musical comedy Whoopee!, a 1930 adaptation of the musical; Whoopee!, a British comic book magazine of the 1970s and '80s
Whoopee! was a British comic book magazine that ran from (issues dates) 9 March 1974 to 30 March 1985, when it merged with Whizzer and Chips. [1] It was published by IPC Magazines Ltd [1] and ran for 572 issues. [citation needed] The first issue of Whoopee! ran to forty pages, [1] with a free gift in the form of a 'squirter ring'. The strapline ...
A whoopee cap is a style of headwear popular among youths in the mid-20th century in the United States. It was often made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up.
Larry Storch based Professor Whoopee's voice on character actor Frank Morgan, best known as The Wizard of Oz. [10] Chumley would ask Tennessee a riddle before and in between the segments, in which Mr. Whoopee came up with the humorous answer on his Three-Dimensional Blackboard, usually ending with laughter.
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