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Too Busy to Work Reviews

  • 1939
  • 1 hr 5 mins
  • Comedy
  • NR
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Funds for Pa's hospital drive and Ma's charity show get mixed in this Jones Family yarn. Jed Prouty, Spring Byington. Joan Davis adds spark as a visiting cousin. Jack: Ken Howell. Roger: George Ernest. Lucy: June Carlson. Bobby: Billy Mahan. Mrs. Russel: Marjorie Gateson. Otto Brower directed.

Confusion rises to comic proportions when the head of the Jones family, Prouty, begins neglecting his drugstore duties in favor of his mayoral duties. The ladies of the household, tired of doing his work, decide to take it easy and give him a dose of his own medicine. This series entry features a new member to the clan in Davis, a visiting cousin.