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I Dood It
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I Dood It is a 1943 American musical-comedy film.
The rather ungrammatical title was thought to have been derived from one of star Red Skelton's own catchphrases of the day, but instead it came from the song "I Dood It! (If I Do, I Get A Whippin')," written by Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner, especially for Skelton in 1942.
Skelton plays an "average Joe" who is madly in love with Constance Shaw (Eleanor 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.
The screenplay by Fred Saidy and Sig Herzig was directed by Vincente Minnelli. Co-starring in the MGM film are Richard Ainley and Patricia Dane, and 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.
- I Dood It at the Internet Movie Database
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| 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) | Screen Snapshots: Famous Hollywood Mothers (1947) | Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Holiday (1948) | Have Faith in Our Children (1955) |
| Television series The Faith of Our Children (1953-1955) |