So This Is Harris | |
Director: | Mark Sandrich |
Producer: | Lou Brock |
Starring: | Phil Harris Walter Catlett |
Music: | Will Jason Val Burton |
Cinematography: | Bert Glennon |
Editing: | John Lockert |
Distributor: | RKO Radio Pictures |
Runtime: | 28 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
So This Is Harris is a 1933 American pre-Code short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It won an Oscar in 1934 for Best Short Subject (Comedy).[1] [2] The Academy Film Archive preserved So This Is Harris in 2012.[3]
The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which is listened to by Dorothy on the radio whose homebrewing husband Walter hates Harris. The action then moves to the country club where Walter unknowingly encounters Harris while being aggravated by his music. Walter then pretends to be Phil to meet a woman while Harris "entertains" her friend, Dorothy.