Mixed Nuts

Story

Synopsis

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."

Director

James Parrott

Language

English

Release date

16 February 1934

Ensemble

Cast

• Douglas Wakefield

  Prof. Wakefield

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  Billy Nelson

  Prof. Fabian Nelson

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  Jack Barty

  Mr. Twitchell

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  Don Barclay

  Prof. Barclay

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  Thelma Hill

  Chorine

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  Nora Cecil

  Mrs. Twitchett

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  Dorothy Granger

  Chorine who packs a punch