Haley is a pretentious but amiable rustic who has written a serious drama about the life of Napoleon, an epic work unlikely to attain a staging. Sothern is his charming sister and Seddon his grandmother. An actor and a pair of ballad-mongers decide to save themselves from impending
starvation by impersonating a high-powered Broadway producer and his two assistants and pretending interest in Haley's opus. Lodging for the summer at the family farmhouse, they sing for their supper by mock-rehearsing the Napoleonic nonsense in the adjacent barn. When Grandma Seddon sinks her
life savings into a brief run in the local town's theater, the rascals relent and revise the ru...
Released:
1935
Rated:
NR
Length:
67 mins