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314:). Heartbroken, when Billy invites her to his birthday, she agrees to go, along with Dockweiler. While at the party, Dockweiler decides to get back at the townspeople who have heartbroken his daughter, and runs a crooked shell game, bilking the locals of large amounts of cash. When Rosie discovers that Billy has true feelings for her, and intends to marry her, she asks Dockweiler to lose back the money he has won. He agrees, but before the evening is out, the Sheriff (Clifford Dempsey) arrives and asks him to leave town for running a dishonest game. 38: 309:
To support them, Dockweiler becomes partners with a jewelry store owner, Al Oberdorf (Alfred James), who is on the verge of bankruptcy. Due to Dockweiler's sales skills, he saves the store from failure. He has also been spending his time convincing the gullible townspeople that he is actually a
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The film did achieve a milestone in the technical aspects of filmmaking, when their sound crew managed to record several natural sound effects in the field. The sounds of leaves rustling and bird calls were successfully recorded, along with natural wind effects, while in the field at Sherwood
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Before they can leave, however, the jewelry store is robbed, and suspicion falls on Dockweiler who is arrested for the theft. He escapes from the jail, and is leaving town with Rosie, when the Sheriff and Billy track them down to let them know that the real jewel thieves have been apprehended.
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came right to the point in his review, "One of the cinema's minor indiscretions, an item entitled "Everything's Rosie," was inflicted last evening on a small audience at the Globe which found it as lacking in wit as in intelligence and ordinary good taste."
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and John Darrow, but was a critical failure, although it did manage not to lose money in a year when most RKO films did exactly that. Following the film's disappointing reception, the Wheeler & Woolsey team was quickly reunited, and
302:) when she was three, and has raised her to become a pretty young woman, who is just as good an operator as her adoptive father is. As they pass through a small town, Rosie falls in love with Billy Lowe ( 277:, and was an attempt by RKO Radio Pictures to capitalize on the popularity of the comedy duo, having each of the team star in their own solo films. The film also starred 429:. The lukewarm reception to both films cemented the two as a team, as those two films were the only ones either made without the other after becoming a comedy team. 1065: 433:
Forest, outside Hollywood. Sound engineer Hugh McDowell, Jr. had invented the equipment, the "silencer and ground noise eliminator", which enabled the recording.
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was slightly more generous, saying that Woolsey in his solo performance "... tickles the customer with this one." The film made a slight profit of $ 35,000.
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While the screenplay based on Boasberg's story was credited as original, the story was very similar to a 1923 play which had starred W.C. Fields, titled
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Dockweiler understands that he will never fit in with the local gentry, so, now assured of Rosie's happiness with Billy, bids them adieu and departs.
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European noblemen. While Rosie is in love with Billy, she finds out that he is engaged to a snobbish socialite, Madeline Van Dorn (
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magazine gave it a "fair" rating, stating, "Robert Woolsey without Bert Wheeler is nothing to turn cartsprings about"
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RKO had begun to test the waters for solo careers for both Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in the 1931 film,
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from September 1923 through June 1924. Coincidentally, Woolsey had a significant role in that play.
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was to be the only film Woolsey ever appeared in without Wheeler.
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was Woolsey's film, while Wheeler would appear sans Woolsey in
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after Anita Louise's character's name was chosen to be Rosie.
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Index

Everything's Rosie (TV series)

Clyde Bruckman
Tim Whelan
Al Boasberg
Ralph Spence
William LeBaron
Louis Sarecky
Robert Woolsey
Anita Louise
John Darrow
Nicholas Musuraca
Doris Drought
RKO Pictures
Pre-Code
slapstick
Clyde Bruckman
Ralph Spence
Tim Whelan
Al Boasberg
W. C. Fields
Robert Woolsey
Wheeler & Woolsey
Anita Louise
Robert Woolsey
Anita Louise
John Darrow
Lita Chevret
Robert Woolsey
Anita Louise

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