The short is a domestic comedy starring Marjorie Beebe and George Barraud. It begins with the husband berating his wife for being fat. Later, you learn that the husband is actually running around with a married woman and her husband is extremely jealous...and violent. What happens next? Well, surprisingly, the 'fat' wife comes to the rescue!
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Andy Clyde as Arthur Fleming
Marjorie Beebe as Marge Wadsworth
George Barraud as George Wadsworth
Aggie Herring as Mother Graham
Mack Sennett Director
United States 25 May 1930
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1930:
14 December 1930
A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who cannot leave his mother", a piano player who keeps chugging beer, and Oswald and his peg-leg buddy (probably Peg-Leg Pete who eventually became Mickey's nemesis) saying in unison "Pop Goes the Weasel" with the rabbit getting the better of this buddy after he keeps hitting him.
27 September 1930
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong.
22 May 1930
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British)
05 April 1930
After being shot, a dying Marshal Dawson gives Dave Hayes his badge and asks him to finish his job. Dave becomes Marshal but when Bowie, the man that shot Dawson appears, he exposes Dave as an imposter.
30 November 1930
The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty (Leila Hyams).
20 July 1930
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
29 January 1930
This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts of his daughter, Molly Sommers (Dorothy Revier), a nightclub singer and two newspapers reporters, Ted Palmer (David Newell) and the inaptly-named Drinkwater (Raymond Hatton), posing as a drunk, to clear him.
05 February 1930
The carpenter Franz Aigner, a kind-hearted but strong and irascible fellow, has beaten a man to death in an argument and is sentenced to prison with a three-year suspended sentence.
30 January 1930
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
10 June 1930
Despite past friendliness, cattle ranchers Tom and Jim Bledsoe, father and son, fence off their range to prevent its use by neighboring sheep ranchers Tug Wilson and Buck Rankin, suggesting that they hope to end their recent loss of cattle.
30 July 1930
André is a young attorney who has opened his own office in Paris without any success. One day he finds a will in an old book in an antique shop that reveals a hidden treasure at the castle Brignolles.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1930 Mack Sennett Comedies.