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Ole and Chick are making a movie, but th edirector is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer, who outlines them a absurd story They have to support Jeff and Kitty in setting up an musical revue in their garden and want to bring it up on Broadway. If Jeff is sucessful he can marry Kitty. But there is his rich friend Woody, who also loves Kitty, Chick's sister Betty, who's in love with a false Russian count, and Detective Quimby. They all make the thing very complicated for Ole and Chick. After some mistakes they think, that Kitty isn't the right girl for Jeff they start sabotating the show, but the Broadway producer is impressed and signs the contract. That's the story the writer tells them. For this he's soot by the director.
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At the Universal Studio Theater, Louis, the projectionist, begins a film: As beautiful women walk down a flight of stairs, the stairs collapse and the women fall into Hell. As new arrivals are being tortured, a taxi arrives with two "prized guests": vaudeville performers Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. As it turns out, this is a set for the movie Hellzapoppin' . The film's director tells Ole and Chic that this film, unlike their stage play, must have a story, and a love story at that. Ole and Chic argue that the play was a hit on Broadway for three years, so why change it? The director informs them that in Hollywood, "they change everything." Selby, a screenwriter, then tells the group his story for the movie: Jeff, a playwright, is trying to stage his new play at the home of Kitty Rand. Kitty is in love with Jeff, but Woody Tyler, Jeff's best friend, is also in love with Kitty, so Jeff hides his true feelings. Ole and Chic are two prop men who work for Jeff and help not only in staging his play, but in breaking up Kitty and Woody. Pepi, a real prince who pretends to be a fake, seeks a beautiful, rich wife. Jeff points out Gloria Van Deerborn, but Pepi mistakes Betty, Ole and Chic's lovesick kid sister, for Gloria. Crazed detective Quimby is then hired by Kitty's father to watch over things. To help out with Jeff and Kitty's undeclared romance, Ole and Chic decide to make Kitty look like "a Bluebeard" to Woody. Meanwhile, Kitty is about to give up on Jeff and announce her engagement to Woody. Just as Ole and Chic are about to tell Woody about Kitty's "two-timing," the projectionist has a fight with his girl friend, an usher, and puts on the wrong reel. Suddenly, Ole and Chic are in the middle of a Western with an angry Indian chasing them. Back in their own picture, Ole and Chic tell Woody that Kitty is having an affair with Pepi. Woody goes to Pepi, begging him to stay away from Kitty, so Pepi, now believing that the wealthy Kitty is interested in him, proceeds to chase after her. Pepi believes that he has Kitty trapped in her bedroom, but is shocked to discover that he has instead been cornered by Betty. Woody listens outside their door and assumes it is Kitty who is ravishing Pepi. The next day, Woody leaves to "reconstruct his life," but before he can go, he tells Ole and Chic that Pepi was in Kitty's room until four o'clock in the morning. They try to tell Jeff about Kitty's romance, but Jeff, knowing the truth, brushes their concerns aside. Ole and Chic, aware that Jeff will not marry Kitty until he makes good on his own, decide to sabotage his play. That night, Max Kane, a Broadway producer, arrives to see the show. Ole and Chic try to destroy the show in every conceivable way, from sneezing powder to skating bears to a guest appearance by "Frankenstein's monster." Rather than ruining the show, however, the additions make the production a hit, especially with Kane. Backstage, the performers assume the show is a flop, and when Betty tells Ole and Chic the truth about Kitty, Pepi and herself, the two, thinking they have ruined their friend's life, want to disappear. Quimby, a one-time magician, helps them out, but is unable to make them re-appear when they learn that the show is really a hit. Finally, they re-appear, along with all the other things Quimby has made disappear over the years. Back on the film soundstage, the film director announces that he cannot take any more. When Selby tells him that he perfers the original Hellzapoppin' , the director shoots him, but Selby is wearing his bulletproof vest, which protects him, even though it leaks a bit when he drinks.
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