Blood is thicker than social class, be it living relations or one one the way.
REDUCING (1931) is the first Marie Dressler-Polly Hunter film my wife and I had seen, and they worked well together in it. There is a lot of squabbling between the two "sister's" throughout, which is, of course, portrayed in an irritating manner, but it leads up to the annoying all's-well-in-the-end.
I mean annoying in a good way. Part of the charm of this film, at least for me, was that every character in the film was annoying to one extent or another. This is comedy! One sister (Dressler) and her family go through a rough patch, and the successful sister (Moran) considers it her blood duty to bail out her blood. The two daughters fall for the same millionaire, but Moran's daughter (Sally Eilers) has a special claim to him, which is all-but-revealed to bring the film to a conclusion. This is the spoiler. They do not say it, but Eiler's has become pregnant. That has to be it, but Hollywood left it unsaid at that point.
We enjoyed the movie a good deal, but I doubt we could watch it again. Too annoying.
REDUCING (1931) is the first Marie Dressler-Polly Hunter film my wife and I had seen, and they worked well together in it. There is a lot of squabbling between the two "sister's" throughout, which is, of course, portrayed in an irritating manner, but it leads up to the annoying all's-well-in-the-end.
I mean annoying in a good way. Part of the charm of this film, at least for me, was that every character in the film was annoying to one extent or another. This is comedy! One sister (Dressler) and her family go through a rough patch, and the successful sister (Moran) considers it her blood duty to bail out her blood. The two daughters fall for the same millionaire, but Moran's daughter (Sally Eilers) has a special claim to him, which is all-but-revealed to bring the film to a conclusion. This is the spoiler. They do not say it, but Eiler's has become pregnant. That has to be it, but Hollywood left it unsaid at that point.
We enjoyed the movie a good deal, but I doubt we could watch it again. Too annoying.