Mary Ann Jackson
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Biography: American former child actress who appeared in Our Gang short subjects series between 1928 and 1931. Her career began under the shadow of her actor relatives, mother Charlotte Jackson, and older sister, "Peaches" Jackson". Jackson made her film debut in a 1925 Ruth Taylor short, "Dangerous Curves". Her first big break came with the role of Baby Smith in the comedy short series "The Smiths", which starred Billy Gilbert. Se made her feature debut in 1927's "Smith's Pony". Jackson joined the Hour Gang (Little Rascals) cast in 1928, at the tail end of the silent era. Often used as the second female lead or the spunky older sister of "Wheezer" (Bobby Hutchins), Mary Ann's snappy delivery came in handy during the series's somewhat rocky transition to sound. With her bob hairstyle and freckles, tomboyish Mary Ann was a vast departure from the winsome miniature heroines who would populate the series before and after her tenure. Mary Ann Jackson died of heart attack at her home, at the age of 80. She was cremated and ashes scattered off the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: January 14, 1923
Deathday: December 17, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Ghosts
Overview: Juanito gets locked out of his house in the middle of a windy night. Spanish language version of When the Wind Blows (1930)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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The Holy Terror
Overview: Mary Ann is becoming a serious problem to the other gang members and Joe was given the job of training and controlling her behavior.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-09
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Remember When?
Overview: Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-14
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The Our Gang Story
Overview: Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Smith's Restaurant
Overview: The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-19
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Crazy House
Overview: Crazy House is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 76th Our Gang short that was released. It was the final appearance of Jackie Condon, who was with the gang since the pilot episode of Our Gang in 1922.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-02
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Growing Pains
Overview: Mary Ann has a liking toward Wheezer. Her mother tells her that if she gives him cod liver oil, he can become a giant. A circus giant comes to board, learns the plan and substitutes for Wheezer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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Fast Freight
Overview: Fast Freight is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film. It was the 85th Our Gang short that was released. The gang takes a tramp's train ride and end up taking shelter in a haunter house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Boxing Gloves
Overview: The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actually mix it up. Harry and Farina notice a rivalry between two very large young kids, Joe and Chubby, that would fill the bill if only the two heavyweights would put aside their gentle natures. Farina gets an idea: tell each of the lads that the other will take a dive in the second round. So the fight begins and the stands are filled; but will the combatants actually throw a punch? Ernie has one more trick up his sleeve to get the fists flying and the crowd on its feet. Sweet science indeed.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-09
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Lazy Days
Overview: While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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Railroadin'
Overview: The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the kids on it, save for Farina who is nearly run over several times. Once Farina manages to climb aboard himself, the kids attempt to stop the runaway locomotive, but have no luck until the engine crashes into a grocery truck. As it turns out, however, the entire incident is revealed to be a dream Farina had as Joe and Chubby's father lectured the kids about rail-yard safety.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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Small Talk
Overview: The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, gets adopted by a wealthy couple, while his older sister Mary Ann does not. The gang all comes to visit Wheezer in his new home, setting off an alarm that causes the police and the fire department to come over. At that time, Wheezer's new mother and father decide to adopt Mary Ann as well. The couple's friends all each adopt a child as well; even Farina is adopted by the maid at Wheezer's new home.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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Pups Is Pups
Overview: The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-30
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The Ol' Gray Hoss
Overview: This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him company and his old horse. He runs a horse and buggy business, but he has new competition: an auto taxi. The gang helps him to maintain his job by sabotaging the other man's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-19
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The Spanking Age
Overview: Mary Ann Jackson and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced to endure the cruelties of their stepmother and stepsister. The kids get even by rigging a few clever contraptions of their own. In the end the father sells a patent worth millions. Before that, the Our Gang kids bring out out the old "alum" gag, along with several other tried-and-true comedy bits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-15
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Little Mother
Overview: Little Mother is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Little Mother was the 87th Our Gang short to be released. A silent film, it followed Our Gang's first sound film, Small Talk, on the release schedule.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Election Day
Overview: This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-12
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Overview: Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Moan & Groan, Inc.
Overview: The gang goes digging for treasure in an old abandoned house against Kennedy the Cop's wishes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-07
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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2
Overview: The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2 contains the next 11 Our Gang sound shorts produced by Roach at the dawn of the "talkie era": Pups is Pups (1930) to Dogs is Dogs (1931) -- with each short newly scanned and restored from original Hal Roach 35mm film elements. A must-have for any true Our Gang fan, Volume 2 features the talents of Jackie Cooper, Allen “Farina” Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Dorothy De Borba, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, as well as June Marlowe as the unforgettable Miss Crabtree.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-03
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Bouncing Babies
Overview: With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-11
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Shivering Shakespeare
Overview: The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-25
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The First Seven Years
Overview: Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-01
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Bear Shooters
Overview: The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-16
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Smith's Army Life
Overview: 19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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Laughing Sinners
Overview: Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-30
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Spanking Breezes
Overview: "Spanking Breezes" is a short Mack Sennett comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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Smith's Pony
Overview: The Smith's visit San Francisco to attend a horse show only to have their precocious daughter cause some minor comical mishaps and their over-sized canine refusing to obey commands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-17
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Smith's Uncle
Overview: Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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The Rodeo
Overview: The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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Little Daddy
Overview: Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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Saturday's Lesson
Overview: A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-09
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A Tough Winter
Overview: The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-21
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Fly My Kite
Overview: A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-30
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School's Out
Overview: The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit, the children mistake him for a suitor. The children tell abominable lies about Miss Crabtree to try to discourage the man. Meanwhile, one of the children is selling answers to the upcoming oral exam. Unfortunately for the students, the young entrepreneur used a book of minstrelsy and blackface as his source for the "answers".
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-21
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The Red Mill
Overview: A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1
Overview: The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1 contains the first 11 Our Gang sound shorts produced by Roach at the dawn of the “talkie era": Small Talk to A Tough Winter—with each short newly scanned and restored from original Hal Roach 35mm film elements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-01
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Noisy Noises
Overview: Joe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert who won't stop crying. Every effort to calm Rupert is undone by an immediate commotion to wake him up. Joe rocks him to sleep, but then the neighbor starts playing his bass fiddle. Joe then rocks the cradle so hard it falls apart, and he trips and stumbles moving Rupert to the baby carriage, which subsequently rolls down hill through traffic with Rupert and a neighbor's monkey enjoying the ride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-09
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The Burglar
Overview: A man, accidentally locked out of his house is mistaken for a burglar as he attempts to re-enter the house. The gag is that the person mistaking him, is an actual burglar thinking the man to be a rival to his score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-12
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School Begins
Overview: One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built around the unenviable ritual of returning to school during the first week of September. School begins and some gang members are forging notes from their mother wanting out. Then too-young Wheezer parades by the school with escaped circus seals following him, causing a disturbance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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The New Aunt
Overview: 28th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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Teacher's Pet
Overview: Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-11
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Helping Grandma
Overview: The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Love Business
Overview: Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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Smith's Picnic
Overview: The accident-prone Smith family (Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt, and Mary Ann Jackson) head to the beach in this Mack Sennett comedy directed by Alf Goulding. There they spoil a picnic held by "The Optimist's' Club," quickly turning the members into pessimists. This reconstructed version features racy scenes of starlet Mildred June in lingerie and having her bathing suit torn off by a fishing pole that were only included in prints shown in Germany.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-12
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The Bargain Hunt
Overview: The Smith Family goes for bargain hunt at a warehouse sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-14
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Smith's Baby
Overview: Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-25
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Smith's Landlord
Overview: Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate member of the Smith family, has a starring role in this episode, digging up the garden and stealing the landlord's hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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Smith's Candy Shop
Overview: 13th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. The Smiths at the candy shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-21
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Smith's Cook
Overview: The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get married. But when Mr Smith and his family set out to drive her across town to her bridegroom, everything goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-16
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Smith's Customer
Overview: Eighth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Bubbles is up to mischief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-06
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Smith's Fishing Trip
Overview: Twelfth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family gos fishing while their house is renovated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-29
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Smith's New Home
Overview: Ninth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family buys a new home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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Her First Beau
Overview: 15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-08
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When the Wind Blows
Overview: Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burglar, a local policeman is called, but he seems incompetent to catch either the phony burglar or the real one who has shown up in the meantime
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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Bargain Day
Overview: Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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Stage Mother
Overview: Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Wiggle Your Ears
Overview: This is a really strange, but thought provoking film. Here, beloved Mary literally lets Harry Spear kick her behind, spend her money on him, and forces her to push his kiddie car, all so that she could get the occasional joy of watching Harry "Wiggle His Ears." Armchair Freudians and double-entendre fans will quickly get the "joke" here. He quickly dumps Mary for pintsized blonde bombshell Jean Darling. What happens? You'll see.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-05
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