Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Acting
Marie Dressler and Polly Moran's gloriously unhinged comic timing.
Production
Rare surviving pre-code artifact — practically a time capsule.

Director
Charles Reisner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-code films like this were shockingly frank about sex, pregnancy, and bodily functions—topics banned entirely by 1934. This is practically archaeology.
Marie Dressler was 62 and Hollywood's biggest box office draw when this was made, proving audiences once adored commanding older women—imagine that.