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Never Say Die is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Elliott Nugent released in USA on 14 april 1939 with Martha Raye
Never Say Die (1939)
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Add to a movie listNever Say Die is a 1939 romantic comedy film starring Martha Raye and Bob Hope. Based on a play of the same title by William H. Post and William Collier, Sr., which ran on Broadway for 151 performances in 1912, the film was directed by Elliot Nugent and written for the screen by Dan Hartman, Frank Butler and Preston Sturges. The supporting cast features Andy Devine, Alan Mowbray, Gale Sondergaard, Sig Ruman and Monty Woolley.
The Post/Collier play had previously been adapted in 1924 as a silent film of the same name and was remade as the 2004 South Korean film Someone Special. Other films with the same or similar titles are not related.
Synopsis
When test results get mixed up, multi-millionaire hypochondriac John Kidley (Bob Hope) is told that he only has a month to live. He dumps his fiancee, Juno Marko (Gale Sondergaard), and heads for the Swiss spa of Bad Gaswasser, where he meets a young Texas heiress, Mickey Hawkins (Martha Raye).Actors
Martha Raye
(Mickey Hawkins)
Bob Hope
(John Kidley)
Andy Devine
(Henry Munch)
Alan Mowbray
(le Prince Smirnov)
Gale Sondergaard
(Juno Marko)
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