Any chance you can see this solid list of character players in a film and without any stars fpr box office than change your channel and sit down and watch The
Cheaters. These folks are the movie and that's always good.
Eugene Pallette and Billie Burke essentially play the same parts as Pallette and Alice Brady did in My Man Godfrey. The indulgent and harrassed father and his airhead wife. Like the Bullochs of Godfrey they have two daughter, Ann Gillis and Ruth Terry, and an added son David Holt.
It's Christmas time and in the spirit of charity the family brings in has been actor Joseph Schilddkraut for the holidays. They also brinmg in Ona Munson a chorus girl that Pallette's late uncle left a big fortune to but she doesn't know it. The idea is to make sure she doesn't find out before the family can claim the legacy.
Without going any further let's say that Schildkraut and Munson bring a drastic change in their lives.
The Cheaters is a highly unrealistic but nice holiday classic that is relatively unknown. At least to me since I hadn't heard of it until recently. It came from Republic which made its bread and butter in B westerns. In fact one of their cowboy stars Robert Livingston makes an appearance as the soldier boyfriend of one of the daughters.
Joseph Kane who directed all the Republic cowboys at one time or another leaves the sagebrush to direct this. Add Robert Grieg one of Hollywood's efficient butlers and Raymond Walburn at his bloviating best.
With this list of character players don't pass The Cheaters up.
Eugene Pallette and Billie Burke essentially play the same parts as Pallette and Alice Brady did in My Man Godfrey. The indulgent and harrassed father and his airhead wife. Like the Bullochs of Godfrey they have two daughter, Ann Gillis and Ruth Terry, and an added son David Holt.
It's Christmas time and in the spirit of charity the family brings in has been actor Joseph Schilddkraut for the holidays. They also brinmg in Ona Munson a chorus girl that Pallette's late uncle left a big fortune to but she doesn't know it. The idea is to make sure she doesn't find out before the family can claim the legacy.
Without going any further let's say that Schildkraut and Munson bring a drastic change in their lives.
The Cheaters is a highly unrealistic but nice holiday classic that is relatively unknown. At least to me since I hadn't heard of it until recently. It came from Republic which made its bread and butter in B westerns. In fact one of their cowboy stars Robert Livingston makes an appearance as the soldier boyfriend of one of the daughters.
Joseph Kane who directed all the Republic cowboys at one time or another leaves the sagebrush to direct this. Add Robert Grieg one of Hollywood's efficient butlers and Raymond Walburn at his bloviating best.
With this list of character players don't pass The Cheaters up.