A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Gary Cooper
as Professor Bertram Potts

Barbara Stanwyck
as Sugarpuss O’Shea

Oskar Homolka
as Prof. Gurkakoff

Henry Travers
as Prof. Jerome

S.Z. Sakall
as Prof. Magenbruch

Tully Marshall
as Prof. Robinson

Leonid Kinskey
as Prof. Quintana

Richard Haydn
as Prof. Oddly

Aubrey Mather
as Prof. Peagram

Allen Jenkins
as Garbage Man
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This is a cracking little comedy with Gary Cooper as the unlikely boffin "Prof. Potts" who, alongside a group of equally eminent academics has been working on an encyclopaedia for the previous 9 years - and they've only got to "S". Enter the mailman who is doing a radio quiz just as our professor is...