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Laffing Time
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Wikipedia article
'Laffing Time' is a 1959 feature film starring Gloria Jean and El Brendel and directed by Alf Goulding.Jean's career faltered early: [FINAL Edition]
Peterson, Bettelou. Austin American Statesman; Austin, Tex. [Austin, Tex]11 Aug 1991: 14. The film's producer, Edward Finney, also took the leading comic role, under the pseudonym "Eddie Finn."Scott MacGillivray and Jan MacGillivray, 'Gloria Jean: A LIttle Bit of Heaven,' iUniverse, 2005, p. 261. ISBN 978-0595370801.
Plot
Well-meaning but clumsy husband Musty Suffer (Eddie Finn) lives with his wife Sally (Gloria Jean) and his tough-talking mother-in-law (Nina Varela). His Swedish-dialect pal is next-door neighbor Efrem Blobbs (El Brendel). Musty and Blobbs plan an elaborate birthday party for Musty's daughters Betsy and Netsy (Jane and Janette Carty). When the tax collector takes Musty's handy money, Musty and Blobbs stage the party themselves. Still in need of cash, Musty and his family hire on as servants for a society matron, whose important dinner party goes from bad to worse.
History
In 1959 producer Finney had seen a newspaper report that former singing star Gloria Jean was now working as a hostess, in a restaurant with Hollywood clientele. Finney had always been a Gloria Jean fan, and he sponsored her return to the screen. The finished film, edited by Finney himself, was retitled 'The Madcaps' for release in 1964. Finney recut it and shot additional scenes for a new children's-matinee version, 'Tobo the Happy Clown' (1966).Ibid., p. 270.
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