Cast: Russell Hicks, Alan Mowbray
Running Time: 15 mins.
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Famed dancer and choreographer Gower Champion directs this genuinely charming promotional film for the phone company. Champion cleverly soft peddles the phones and concentrates instead on the song and dance routines. Newlywed Mary's "Wishing Song" number interestingly tries to point up the contrast between '50s reality and '50s consumer fantasy in a promotional film that must lean inevitably towards the latter. Compared to other Jerry Fairbanks promo films for Ma Bell, "Once Upon a Honeymoon" is unique and was probably not well-liked by Bell, who preferred that their technology be given the hard-sell. "Chief Angel" Russell Hicks had been in almost 300 films since 1915, and had a memorable role in W.C. Fields' "The Bank Dick". This is his last film appearance.
