Kentucky Kernels

Kentucky Kernels is a 1934 American comedy directed by George Stevens and starring the comedy duo of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. The screenplay was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Fred Guiol, from a story by Kalmar and Ruby.

Plot

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.

Cast

• Bert Wheeler as Willie Doyle
• Robert Woolsey as Elmer Dugan
• Mary Carlisle as Gloria Wakefield
• 'Spanky' McFarland as Spanky
• Noah Beery as Colonel Wakefield
• Lucille LaVerne as Aunt Hannah Milford
• Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Baxter
• Sleep 'n' Eat as Buckshot
• Dorothy Granger as Ethel, Baxter's Secretary (uncredited)
• Harry Bernard as Destitute Man (uncredited)
• Charlie Hall (actor, born 1899) as Cigarette Stand Owner (uncredited)
• Clarence Wilson (actor) as Peck, a Lawyer (uncredited)

References

1. The Kentucky Kernel
2. Spanky McFarland
3. University of Kentucky
4. Margaret Dumont
5. Wheeler & Woolsey
6. Willie Best
7. George Stevens
8. Lucille La Verne
9. KPP
10. Dorothy Granger
11. Lena Raine
12. The Talk of the Town (1942 film)
13. Noah Beery
14. List of comedy films of the 1930s
15. Frances Grant
16. Will Levis
17. 1989–90 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
18. Mary Carlisle
19. Charlie Hall (actor, born 1899)
20. List of musical films by year