Fans of classic MGM movies will delight to see Billie Burke in one of her rare comedy shorts, made during the height of the Columbia shorts era, dominated by the Three Stooges and Vera Vague. By this time, she was a character richer of herself, chirping like a bird with every silly line she had to recite. In the course of two reels, Burke believes that she's about to be a grandmother and disrupts a hospital, accompanied by her Mary Wickes like maid, Patsy Moran. It's moderately funny, but there's more farce than plot, and even there, nothing is really concrete. It's filled with pratfalls, zany characters disguised as hospital staff and Moran's boyfriend scheduled for surgery he does not need. That's TV veteran Maudie Prickett as one of the nurses. Burke proves that as an aging veteran actress (once quite dignified on the stage), she's still got spunk, but a feathered hat has more intelligence than her character here.
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