Let's Go Native is a 1930 American pre-Code black-and-white musical comedy film, directed by Leo McCarey and released by Paramount Pictures.

[1] The well-received picture anticipated McCarey’s success in future comedies, among these Part-Time Wife (1930), The Kid from Spain (1932) and the screwball classic The Awful Truth (1937).

Joan, an unemployed costume designer and her boyfriend Voltaire, a disinherited scion of a wealthy family, embark together on a Caribbean cruise.

[3][4] Paramount initially delayed release of Let’s Go Native, concerned that the narrative was too bizarre for audiences and “had not expected it to be quite so free-spirited.”[5] Let’s Go Native opened simultaneously with the Marx Brothers’ Animal Crackers (1930) and was “favorably compared by period critics with this pioneering zany team classic” directed by Victor Heerman.

[7] Film historian Wes D. Gehring identifies Let’s Go Native as a precursor to McCarey’s subsequent screwball comedy classic The Awful Truth (1937).