Mixed Nuts (1934)

Mixed Nuts

1934

Synopsis

Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a very lightweight (and light-hearted) nature. The film begins at a city council meeting where an unidentified politician announces that the government has released $50,000 for the relief of unemployed plumbers. This prompts applause, but also a pointed question from an angry woman who wants to know what the government is going to do for the members of her profession: chorus girls. The politician glibly replies that the administration has set aside money—two million dollars, no less!—for the re-education of chorus girls, "to fit them for the better things in life."

Credits

Director

James Parrott

Cast

Billy Nelson as Prof. Fabian Nelson

Don Barclay as Prof. Barclay

Dorothy Granger as Chorine who packs a punch

Douglas Wakefield as Prof. Wakefield

Jack Barty as Mr. Twitchell

Nora Cecil as Mrs. Twitchett

Thelma Hill as Chorine

Crew