Taking the Count

Taking the Count

21 mins | Comedy | April 24, 1937

Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.

Taking the Count

21 mins | Comedy | April 24, 1937

Taking the Count
Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
Producers The Vitaphone Corporation
Original title Taking the Count
Directors Lloyd French
Writers Ham Fisher

Cast

Robert Norton

as Joe Palooka

Beverly Phalon

as Ann Howe

Shemp Howard

as Knobby Walsh

Charles Kemper

as Richard Howe

John Berkes

as Johnny

Regina Wallace

as Mrs. Howe