Mixed Nuts

Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a very lightweight (and light-hearted) nature. The film begins at a city council meeting where an unidentified politician announces that the government has released $50,000 for the relief of unemployed plumbers. This prompts applause, but also a pointed question from an angry woman who wants to know what the government is going to do for the members of her profession: chorus girls. The politician glibly replies that the administration has set aside money—two million dollars, no less!—for the re-education of chorus girls, "to fit them for the better things in life."

• Release date
• February 16, 1934
• Runtime
• 20 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• James Parrott

Cast

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Douglas Wakefield Prof. Wakefield

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Billy Nelson Prof. Fabian Nelson Jack Barty Mr. Twitchell Don Barclay Prof. Barclay Thelma Hill Chorine Nora Cecil Mrs. Twitchett Dorothy Granger Chorine who packs a punch