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Mama Loves Papa (1945 film)

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a funeral, his boss, sends Wilbur home for the day. When Wilbur is wandering perplexed in a nearby park, he is mistaken for the park commissioner. Seeing it as an opportunity, McIntosh, a crooked politician who wishes to land a lucrative deal with the city to sell them new playground equipment, has the mayor appoint Wilbur as "playground commissioner". Later, when Wilbur is about to denounce McIntosh as a crook, McIntosh has his wife ply Wilbur with champagne. While Wilbur is tipsy, Jessie overhears a flirtatious and damning conversation between the two. Wilbur wakes up with a hangover and no pants, and he learns that, while intoxicated, he brought disgrace to himself, the town, and his wife. Wilbur eventually exposes the political corruption, and when his wife finally agrees to let him leave politics, everything turns out okay.
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Wilbur is a middle-class furniture store employee. His wife Jessie reads a book about how women can make their men more successful, and she decides to remake her husband to give him a new image. Now dressed-for-success by his wife, Wilbur reports for work in fancy clothes. Thinking he is dressed for
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wrote that, with a change in plot devices and modification of script, the film was only a "loose remake of the 1935 Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy of the same name," and he notes the sole redeeming feature to be Leon Errol's "rubber legs" routine already familiar to his fans.
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bought the film rights to Paramount's 1933 film for $ 85,000. Two actors who had been in the 1933 version of this film returned to this 1945 remake in different roles.
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wrote that the film was the "hilarious results of domesticity gone wild". Conversely,
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who earlier played the character of O'Leary returned as the chief of police, and
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The ... Film daily year book of motion pictures, Volume 28, Part 1946
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who earlier played the role of Sara Walker returned as Mabel.
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Frank R. Strayer
Charles E. Roberts
Keene Thompson
Mama Loves Papa
Douglas MacLean
Benjamin Stoloff
Leon Errol
Elisabeth Risdon
Edwin Maxwell
Emory Parnell
Leigh Harline
RKO Radio Pictures
C&C Television Corp.
comedy film
Frank R. Strayer
Keene Thompson
Charles E. Roberts
Mama Loves Papa
Douglas MacLean
RKO Radio Pictures
Leon Errol
Elizabeth Risdon
Leon Errol
Elisabeth Risdon
Edwin Maxwell
Emory Parnell
Charles Halton
Paul Harvey
Charlotte Wynters

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