Sleepy Lagoon (film)

Sleepy Lagoon is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and featuring comedian Judy Canova and singer Dennis Day. The film was written by Prescott Chaplin, and Frank Gill, Jr. and George Carleton Brown wrote the screenplay. It was Canova's final feature for Republic until 1951.

While closely coincident in time, the movie was entirely unrelated to the Sleepy Lagoon murder that led to the Zoot Suit Riots, nor to the song that lent its name to that incident.

Plot
Newly elected mayor Judy Joyner takes charge of a growing but corrupt small town.

Cast

 * Judy Canova as Judy Joyner
 * Dennis Day as Lancelot Hillie
 * Ruth Donnelly as Sarah Rogers
 * Joe Sawyer as Lumpy
 * Ernest Truex as Dudley Joyner
 * Douglas Fowley as J. "The Brain" Lucarno
 * Will Wright as Cyrus Coates
 * Forrest Taylor as Samuel
 * Kitty McHugh as Mrs. Small
 * Eddie Chandler as Ticket Seller
 * Herbert Corthell as Sheriff Bates
 * Ellen Lowe as Mrs. Simms
 * Jack Raymond as Joe, the Clown
 * Margaret Reid as Mrs. Crumm
 * Mike Riley as Bandleader
 * Rondo Hatton as Hunchback (uncredited)