W.C. Fields and Bergen team up in this screwball comedy
W.C. Fields was lured away from Paramount Studios by a larger salary ($125,000 per film plus $25,000 for his story) played a circus owner fallen on hard times. This story was written by Charles Bogle (pseudo name for Fields). Also costarring in the film are Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Constance Moore as Fields’ daughter. Determined to bail out her father from financial mess she agrees to marry a boring rich man but gets embarrassed by her own father when he acts like a jerk at a high society reception. She abandons her plan and likes to wed Bergen whom she loved all along. The runaway parachute where Bergen and his dummy almost get lost doesn’t look so funny. This is a typical Fields movie where he does his best to make people laugh but doesn’t make the distance! Mary Forbes and Thurston Hall as the parents of the rich young man do their best.
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