Wheeler And Woolsey And Friends On Tour

Wheeler and Woolsey made personal appearance tours, and some of the girls who worked with them in the movies went with them on these tours. Dorothy Lee, the girl who worked with them most often, went on more than one of these tours.  And Thelma Todd went with them on one tour.

From G. D. Hamann's THELMA TODD IN THE THIRTIES:

10/27/1933 EHE Harrison Carroll

Going the personal appearance idea one better, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee will join together in a musical comedy and make a swing through Texas, up the South Atlantic Coast, the middle west and finally to New York.

The vehicle, "Dumb Bells," is all ready and the four-starred caravan will leave Hollywood soon after they finish HIPS, HIPS HOORAY at RKO. They plan to play engagements at Phoenix, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit and on to Broadway.

If you can believe it's enthusiastic backers, "Dumb Bells" will not be the thrown-together show such as you road audiences have been victimized by in the past. Tim Whelan, Wheeler and Woolsey collaborated on the book, and the veteran team of Kalmar and Ruby have furnished the songs.




Betty Grable went with them on another.

Betty Grable had evidently made a splash in THE GAY DIVORCEE in 1933, singing "Let's K-nock K-nees"  and dancing with Edward Everett Horton,

but wouldn't be considered a big star until the forties.

Betty Grable became the top pin-up girl of the second World War.

Here we see Betty Grable being interviewed on the radio by Paula Stone in the 1940's.

Betty Grable:
http://bettygrable.net/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002107/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Grable


Dorothy Lee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Lee_(actress)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497186/

Dorothy Lee on personal appearance tour with Wheeler and Woosey:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZlNcYGUwEpMC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=wheeler+and+woolsey+personal+appearance&source=bl&ots=Ve_bLczM2D&sig=YHg4QLiy57ENLiu2QDCBGDtkxa8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=96XxUYSRB4PRqgH20gE&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=wheeler%20and%20woolsey%20personal%20appearance&f=false


Wheeler And Woolsey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_%26_Woolsey

http://talkieking.blogspot.com/2009/01/wheeler-woolsey-great-comedy-team.html

Wheeler And Woolsey Fan Page:
http://users.wowway.com/~stoogeman/




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