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Hotel Haywire
Hotel Haywire
Directed by	George Archainbaud
Written by	Preston Sturges; Lillie Hayward (uncredited)
Produced by	Paul Jones; Henry Henigson (uncredited)
Starring	Leo Carrillo; Lynne Overman; Spring Byington; Benny Baker; Colette Lyons
Cinematography	Henry Sharp
Edited by	Arthur P. Schmidt
Music by	John Leipold (uncredited)
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 4, 1937;
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Hotel Haywire is a 1937 American comedy film written by Preston Sturges with uncredited rewrites by Lillie Hayward. It was directed by George Archainbaud^[1] and stars Leo Carrillo, Lynne Overman, Spring Byington, Benny Baker and Colette Lyons.

Plot

Dentist Henry Parkhouse (Lynne Overman) and his wife Minerva (Spring Byington) have a perfect marriage until a practical joke backfires and she finds a lady's chemise in his coat pocket. Wife and husband both consult Dr. Zodiac Z. Zippe (Leo Carrillo) about what to do, and vaudevillians-turned-detectives Bertie and Genevieve Sterns (Benny Baker and Collette Lyons) get involved as well. On his lawyer's advice, Henry rents a hotel room to set up a compromising situation, only the Parkhouses' daughter Phyllis (Mary Carlisle) is in the same hotel to elope with Frank Ketts (John Patterson), and plans to get married in the room next to Henry's. When Judge Sterling Newhall (Porter Hall) shows up to officiate, he knocks on Henry's door looking for a witness. Eventually, Henry and Minnie make up, Frank and Phyliis get married, and Dr. Zippe is run out of town.^[2]^[3]

Cast

Leo Carrillo as Dr. Zodiac Z. Zippe
Mary Carlisle as Phyllis
Lynne Overman as Dr. Parkhouse
George Barbier as I. Ketts
Spring Byington as Mrs. Parkhouse
Benny Baker as Bertie Sterns
Collette Lyons as Genevieve Stern
John Patterson (actor) as Frank Ketts
Porter Hall as Judge Newhall
Josephine Whittell as Mrs. Newhall
Ellen Drew as Switchboard Operator

Cast notes

Leo Carrillo is best remembered today for playing "Pancho" on the TV series The Cisco Kid. Leo Carrillo State Park near Malibu, California is named after him.^[4]

Franklin Pangborn, who would go on to be one of the character actors frequently used by Preston Sturges in the movies he wrote and directed, has a small uncredited part as a Fuller Brush Man.^[5]

Production

Preston Sturges was paid $17,500 by Paramount to write Hotel Haywire for Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, George Burns and Gracie Allen. When Burns and Allen left the studio and the film was recast, Lillie Hayward was brought in to do rewrites.^[6]

Some of the scenes in Hotel Haywire were filmed at the Glendale, California train station.^[6]

Notes

^ Not "Arthur Archainbaud" as credited by IMDb; see The cinema of Preston Sturges: a critical study, by Alessandro Pirolini, page 173
^ TCM Full synopsis
^ Erickson, Hal Plot synopsis (Allmovie)
^ Leo Carillo at IMDb
^ Franklin Pangborn at IMDb
^ ^a ^b TCM Notes