Just Imagine (1930)
ComedyMusicScience FictionFantasy
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
Director: David Butler
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El Brendel as Single O |
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Maureen O'Sullivan as LN-18 |
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John Garrick as J-21 |
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Marjorie White as D-6 |
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Frank Albertson as RT-42 |
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Hobart Bosworth as Z-4 |
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Mischa Auer as B-36 |
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George Irving as Head of Marriage Tribunal (uncredited) |
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Joyzelle Joyner as Loo Loo / Boo Boo |
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Kenneth Thomson as MT-3 |
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Ivan Linow as Loko |
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Wilfred Lucas as X-10 |
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Charles Alexandra as Chorus Man |
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Kenneth Allen as Chorus Man |
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Nathan Barragar as Chorus Man |
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Jack Barrett as Chorus Man |
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Peggy Beck as Ensemble Lady |
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Lorraine Bond as Ensemble Lady |
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William Brandt as Chorus Man |
| Directing | David Butler | Director |
| Writing | Ray Henderson | Writer |
| Sound | Joseph E. Aiken | Sound |
| Production | Buddy G. DeSylva | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sophie Wachner | Costume Design |
| Production | Ray Henderson | Producer |
| Writing | Buddy G. DeSylva | Writer |
| Sound | Hugo Friedhofer | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Irene Morra | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alice O'Neill | Costume Design |
| Directing | Ad Schaumer | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dolly Tree | Costume Design |
| Camera | Ernest Palmer | Director of Photography |
| Production | Lew Brown | Producer |
| Writing | Lew Brown | Writer |
| Sound | Lew Brown | Songs |
| Sound | Ray Henderson | Songs |
| Sound | Buddy G. DeSylva | Songs |
| Art | Stephen Goosson | Set Designer |
| Art | Ralph Hammeras | Set Designer |
| Art | Willis H. O'Brien | Set Designer |
| Art | Marcel Delgado | Set Designer |
| Art | Stephen Goosson | Art Direction |
| Art | Ralph Hammeras | Art Direction |