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
Marie Dressler
Marie Truffle
Polly Moran
Polly Roche
Anita Page
Vivian Truffle
Sally Eilers
Joyce Roche
Lucien Littlefield
Elmer Truffle
William Collier Jr.
Johnnie Beasley
William Bakewell
Tommy Haverly
Roscoe Ates
Ticket Agent
Sidney Bracey
Beasley's Butler
Jules Cowles
Man on Train with Big Mustache (uncredited)
Bobby Dunn
Train Station Extra
Herbert Prior
Man on Ticket Line in a Hurry
George H. Reed
Train Porter
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.
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