(1943)

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5/10
She goes home to mother, but mother doesn't want her.
mark.waltz12 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
It should be noted that adorable character actress Ida Moore, listed here as "nosey neighbor", is actually Dorothy Christy's mother who is the complete antithesis of the interfering mother-in-law, sending her daughter back to husband Leon Errol after Christy shows up. She basically tells her daughter that she's responsible for all of their marital problems and that Errol doesn't have a philandering bone in his body. Unfortunately, that's all we get of Ida whose sweet presence as rather wacky but cute little old ladies livened up many a movie in the 1940's and 50's, up to "The Delicate Delinquent" (1958). She's the cute old lady who tells Bob Hope in "The Lemon Drop Kid" that all the sands from his hour glass figure have gone to the bottom, and is the mental hospital patient who escaped and visited Claudette Colbert in "The Egg and I". There is a nosy neighbor (without lines), played by an unbilled actress, but it isn't Moore.

The plot here has Errol dealing with the typical hard-boiled neighbor, hysterically named "Maizie" (you can't get any more hard boiled than that!), the wife of professional fighter Tom Kennedy, real life brother of Errol's RKO comedy short rival Edgar. Maizie (Claire Carleton) doesn't want to leave, so when Christy returns, there's hades to pay for Errol who is trying desperately trying to hide her. It's only moderately funny though with typical sitcomish situations (trying to keep neighbor Maizie and wife DC from seeing each other, and Tom Kennedy's violent reaction to an innocent situation), and of course, the only one who pays in the end is Errol who didn't do a darn thing wrong.
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6/10
She Certainly Is
boblipton17 October 2019
Leon Errol is intent on buying wife Dorothy Christy jewelry for their anniversary. Cute sales clerk Claire Carleton talks him into cookware. As part of the promotion, she will be over to cook a meal for the couple. Dorothy, however, quarrels with Leon, goes home to her mother, and returns while the girl is in the apartment and her boyfriend, Tom Kennedy, is trying to protect her while a cop restrains him.

It's a bit unusual for Leon's long-running series of shorts for RKO. Usually, he is complicit in his comic torments. Here, except for thinking his wife will prefer cookware to jewelry, he does nothing wrong. I suppose his dithering and spoonerisms and twitching is the deepseated guilt from all those other comedy shorts.
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