Acting
Chic Sale's vaudeville-honed physical comedy steals every frame.
Writing
Snappy pre-Code dialogue that actually moves.
Director
Archie Mayo
Charles 'Chic' Sale
John T. Minick
Dickie Moore
Dickie Foster
Lois Wilson
Nettie Minick
Elizabeth Patterson
Miss Crackenwald
Ralf Harolde
Jim Crowley
Adrienne Dore
Sadie Crowley
Louise Beavers
Lulu
Walter Catlett
Al Diamond
Bess Flowers
Member of Women's Auxilary Committee
Earle Foxe
Fred Minick
Noel Francis
Daisy
Dorothea Wolbert
Annie
May Boley
Mrs. Smallbridge
Mary Gordon
Neighbor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chic Sale was already famous for his 'specialist' plumber character in vaudeville; this film essentially preserved a dying live-performance tradition.
The 1932 release meant audiences were desperate for stories where elderly workers still mattered—Minick's expertise is literally the fantasy of economic security.
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