Queen High
Queen High is the title of an American pre-Code musical comedy film, produced by Paramount Pictures in 1930. Based upon the 1926 stage musical Queen High that Buddy DeSylva, Lewis Gensler, and Laurence Schwab had adapted from Edward Peple's 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. The storyline loosely concerns a rivalry between two businessmen that results in a game of poker. Whoever loses the game becomes the winner's servant for a year.
The film stars Charlie Ruggles, Frank Morgan, and Ginger Rogers in one of her earliest film appearances. Making her very first film appearance in an uncredited bit part is famed tap dancer Eleanor Powell, whose career in musicals would not 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. Both Rogers and Powell were still in their teens.Cast
- Charles Ruggles – T. Boggs Johns
- Frank Morgan – Mr. Nettleton
- Ginger Rogers – Polly Rockwell
- Stanley Smith – Dick Johns
- Helen Carrington – Mrs. Nettleton
- Rudolph Cameron – Cyrus Vanderholt
- Betty Garde – Florence Cole
- Theresa Maxwell Conover – Mrs. Rockwell
- Nina Olivette – Coddles
- Tom Brown – Jimmy
- Eleanor Powell
Soundtrack
- "Everything Will Happen for the Best"
- "Brother, Just Laugh It Off"
- "I'm Afraid of You"
- "It Seems to Me"
- "I Love the Girls in My Own Peculiar Way"
Preservation
Though part of the 700 or so films Paramount sold to Universal, the film is preserved in the Library of Congress with a copy.
