So This Is Africa is a 1933 comedy

Comedy

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 film starring Bert Wheeler

Wheeler & Woolsey

Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were a famous American film comedy team of the 1930s....

, Robert Woolsey

Robert Woolsey

Robert Woolsey was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey....

, Raquel Torres

Raquel Torres

Raquel Torres was a Mexican-born American film actress. Her sister was actress Renee Torres....

, and Esther Muir

Esther Muir

Esther Muir was a character actress on Broadway and in Hollywood films.-Theatrical Reviews:Muir was born in Andes, New York and began modeling in New York City while still a high school student. She soon won a role in a show called Greenwich Village Follies...

. It was Wheeler and Woolsey's only film for Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

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.

Plot

Film studio "Ultimate Pictures" plans on producing an animal picture in Africa. The studio gets the help of animal specialist Mrs. Johnson Martini. There's just one problem: she's afraid of animals. Martini and the studio soon learn of Wilbur and Alexander, a couple of down on their luck vaudevillians with a trained lion act. The duo agree to join Martini on an expedition to Africa. While there, the trio finds themselves captured by a tribe of violent Amazons.

Production

• The Motion Picture Division of the Education Board of New York State felt that several lines of dialogue and other sequences in this film were innapropriate. As a result, Columbia Pictures was forced to delete sections of "So This Is Africa" prior to its release.

Availability

To date, "So This Is Africa" has not been released into the home video market. It is currently owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment

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. The film has been shown on Turner Classic Movies

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 in the past.

Cast

• Bert Wheeler as Wilbur
• Robert Woolsey
  Robert Woolsey
  Robert Woolsey was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey....
  
   as Alexander
• Raquel Torres
  Raquel Torres
  Raquel Torres was a Mexican-born American film actress. Her sister was actress Renee Torres....
  
   as 'Miss More'
• Esther Muir
  Esther Muir
  Esther Muir was a character actress on Broadway and in Hollywood films.-Theatrical Reviews:Muir was born in Andes, New York and began modeling in New York City while still a high school student. She soon won a role in a show called Greenwich Village Follies...
  
   as Mrs. Johnson Martini
• Berton Churchill
  Berton Churchill
  Berton Churchill was a Canadian actor.Born in Toronto, Ontario. As a young man interested in the theater, he appeared in stock companies as early as 1903 and later headed to New York City where he began an acting career that soon put him on the Broadway stage...
  
   as President of Ultimate Pictures
• Henry Armetta
  Henry Armetta
  Henry Armetta was an Italian movie character actor who appeared in at least 150 films, starting in silents as early as 1915 to a movie released in 1946, after his death.-Biography:...
  
   as Street Cleaner
• Spencer Charters
  Spencer Charters
  Spencer Charters was an American film actor. He appeared in over 220 films between 1920 and 1943.He was born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, and died in Hollywood, California by suicide, from a mix of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning.His first stage work soon after leaving school was a...
  
   as Doctor
• Eddie Clayton as Elevator Operator
• Clarence Moorehouse as 'Josephine', the gorilla
• Spec O'Donnell
  Spec O'Donnell
  Spec O'Donnell was an American film actor. He appeared in 191 films between 1923 and 1978.He was born in Fresno, California and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.-Selected filmography:* Why Girls Say No...
  
   as Johnny, Office Boy
• Jerome Storm
  Jerome Storm
  Jerome Storm was an American film director, actor and writer. He directed 47 films between 1918 and 1932.He was born in Denver, Colorado, and died in Desert Hot Springs, California.-External links:...
  
  as Production Manager