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:
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.
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.
13 February 1930
The wealthy Rodney Langford, who dreams of going on the stage, hopes to fulfil his ambitions by buying a failing revue called 'Raise the Roof', starring Maisie Grey.
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.
30 September 1930
The permanent lack of money is giving Kibis a real headache. The rent has been overdue for seven months and now he is threatened with eviction.
20 July 1930
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
01 October 1930
A magazine editor gets a good story when he comes home to find his wife with his best friend.
21 September 1930
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
07 July 1930
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit.
21 December 1930
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop.
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