Whoopee! occurs as Broadway musical comedy which debuted on 4 December, 1928. A book is by William Anthony McGuire, featuring music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn. A original version was by Florenz Ziegfeld and starred Eddie Cantor and Ruth Etting. A Two work musical theater run 379 performances. The 1979 Broadway revival of the show ran 204 performances.

Whoopee! occurs as 1930 musical comedy film adaptation of the popular Broadway show of the equivalent title. Directed by Thornton Freeland, it was made inside Two-color Technicolor. It was by Florenz Ziegfeld & Samuel Goldwyn. Whoopee! mass produced the movie star of Eddie Cantor, already one of the leading Vaudeville and phonograph record stars of the United States. More stars in the film come Eleanor Hunt, Ethel Shutta, and Paul Gregory. First stars Betty Grable, Ann Sothern, and Virginia Bruce appear uncredited as "Goldwyn Girls". A film besides launched a Hollywood career of Busby Berkeley, and was Alfred Newman's first gig within Hollywood. Richard Day did a placed designs & behind the camera was Gregg Toland, who late incurred fame by owning Orson Welles.

A story line of Whoopee! is somewhat elderly by now's standards, however there are many interesting moments in the film, particularly Cantor's rendition of the song "Makin' Whoopee", & a few of a large production amounts sustaining the Goldwyn Girls.

Whoopee! is an significant however unmarked film in the history of the Hollywood musical theater. Manufactured when you took a Great Depression, it had the ticket price of $5 whenever it opened, & processed Samuel Goldwyn the lot of money at a time whenever his studio required a hit.