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3 January 1931 (USA)
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A beauty parlor manager has an old friend help her with interesting results. | add synopsis
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A Light Touch of Class
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(Complete credited cast) | Marie Dressler | ... | Marie Truffle |
| Polly Moran | ... | Polly Rochay |
 | Anita Page | ... | Vivian Truffle |
| Lucien Littlefield | ... | Elmer Truffle |
| William Collier Jr. | ... | Johnnie Beasley (as Buster Collier Jr.) |
| Sally Eilers | ... | Joyce Rochay |
| William Bakewell | ... | Tommy Haverly |
| Billy Naylor | ... | Jerry Truffle |
| Jay Ward | ... | Marty Truffle |
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77 min
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Stuttering Ticket Agent:
Where are you going?
Marie Truffle: New York. I want to go to New York.
Stuttering Ticket Agent: You'll want to go by Buffalo.
Marie Truffle: No, I want to go by *train*!
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Marie Truffle: New York. I want to go to New York.
Stuttering Ticket Agent: You'll want to go by Buffalo.
Marie Truffle: No, I want to go by *train*!
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Featured in The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
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Swanee River
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Suffering hard times in South Bend, hefty Marie Dressler (as Marie Truffle) moves her poverty-stricken family to New York. There, she moves in with her generous, more well-to-do sister Polly Moran (as Polly Rochay). Ms. Dressler joins Ms. Moran at work in her "Beauty Parlor" and "Reducing" salon, with calamitous results. Dressler is frequently funny, and Moran mostly so; but, the comedy suffers whenever the focus becomes their respective daughters' love story. Dressler and Moran squabble over the younger women's interest in the same man, which becomes an issue about class. Still, Dressler is terrific, especially in the first half. And, capable daughters Anita Page (as Vivian Truffle) and Sally Eilers (as Joyce Rochay) strengthen the weaker parts.
***** Reducing (1931) Charles Reisner ~ Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page