Flicker Fever

Flicker Fever

20 mins | Comedy | Sept. 20, 1935

A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.

Flicker Fever

20 mins | Comedy | Sept. 20, 1935

Flicker Fever
A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
Producers Educational Films Corporation of America, Mack Sennett Comedies
Original title Flicker Fever
Directors Mack Sennett
Writers Al Tyler, Olive Hatch, Walter Weems, Hugh Cummings, Mack Sennett

Cast

Anne Rooney

as Agnes Adams

Cicely Browne

as Pat Adams

George Chandler

as Bob Adams

Kitty McHugh

as Maisie Adams

Kenneth Howell

as Sidney Roth

Jack Shutta

as James Foster

George Gray

as Swimmer (uncredited)

William McCall

as Actor on Steps (uncredited)