Charley's Aunt (1941)
Country: US
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn
Synopsis:
Two Oxford undergrads thwarted in their amorous exploits pressure an older friend into dressing up as their aunt from Brazil and acting as the girls' chaperone. Then their guardian falls for the aunt.
Review:
An ideal treatment of a classic theatrical farce, with a near perfect cast and the same genteel picture of fin de siècle Oxbridge life as A Yank at Oxford had in the 30s!
Country: US
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn
Synopsis:
Two Oxford undergrads thwarted in their amorous exploits pressure an older friend into dressing up as their aunt from Brazil and acting as the girls' chaperone. Then their guardian falls for the aunt.
Review:
An ideal treatment of a classic theatrical farce, with a near perfect cast and the same genteel picture of fin de siècle Oxbridge life as A Yank at Oxford had in the 30s!
Country: US
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn
Synopsis:
Two Oxford undergrads thwarted in their amorous exploits pressure an older friend into dressing up as their aunt from Brazil and acting as the girls' chaperone. Then their guardian falls for the aunt.
Review:
An ideal treatment of a classic theatrical farce, with a near perfect cast and the same genteel picture of fin de siècle Oxbridge life as A Yank at Oxford had in the 30s!