Penny Wisdom
Apr 10 1937
•0h 10m
•Comedy
A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.
Cast
See all
Pete Smith
Narrator (voice)
Prudence Penny
Herself
Harold Minjir
Matthew E. Smudge (uncredited)
Gertrude Short
Chloe Smudge (uncredited)
Recommendations
See all
The Girl Said No
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.
Believe It or Not #1
Robert L. Ripley first shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier. He then proceeds with various oddities, first introducing a woman who can read aloud 8 words a second. He demonstrates this by giving her a 200-word tract she reads in 24 seconds. Next a woman telephones to question his assertion that you can walk through a hole in a cigarette paper, but he demonstrates how when she arrives. Other oddities follow. Vitaphone No. 1005.
The Childeater
Eight-year old Betty is sent to stay with family on a remote Welsh farm, but her father has warned her that her uncle eats children who don't behave.
Splendor in the Grass
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.