Why Pay Rent?

Why Pay Rent?

22 mins | Comedy | May 4, 1935

Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.

Why Pay Rent?

22 mins | Comedy | May 4, 1935

Why Pay Rent?
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
Producers The Vitaphone Corporation
Original title Why Pay Rent?
Directors Lloyd French
Writers Dolph Singer

Cast

Roscoe Ates

as Elmer Whipple

Shemp Howard

as Henry

Billie Leonard

as Billie

Ethel Sykes

as Betty Whipple

Roy Le May

as Junior

Richard Wallace

as Telegram Messenger (uncredited)