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Status
Released
Release
1938
Runtime
1h 2m
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
17 Cast Members
Lew Ayres
Joe McKnight
Louise Campbell
Nora Langdon
Roscoe Karns
Austin Brown
Porter Hall
James Wilson
Edgar Kennedy
Daniel Webster Smith
Elizabeth Patterson
Ada Smith
Cecil Cunningham
Maybelle Murphy
Virginia Weidler
Wilma 'Willie' Murphy
Lucien Littlefield
Robert Johnson
Jan Duggan
Vera Veazy
Laraine Day
Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
Lois Kent
Marilyn Smith
George Offerman, Jr.
Jerome Murphy
Esther Howard
Birdie Brown
Carl Switzer
Bennie Nordskudder
Louise Beavers
Clairce
Ellen Drew
(uncredited)
