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14 November 1941 (USA) morePlot:
Mrs. Minerva Snodgrass heads up the town's Purity League and is so good at imposing restrictions of... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
It was good, but it could not have been longer. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Zasu Pitts | ... | Miss Pandora Polly |
| Slim Summerville | ... | Slim Wilkins |
| Kathleen Howard | ... | Mrs. Minerva Snodgrass |
| Brenda Forbes | ... | Patsy |
| Elyse Knox | ... | Barbara Snodgrass |
| Richard Clayton | ... | Eddie (as Dick Clayton) |
| Dink Trout | ... | Postman Wilbur Boggs |
| William Newell | ... | New Postman Hubert |
| Ferris Taylor | ... | Mayor Walsh |
| Fern Emmett | ... | Mrs. Frisbee |
| Vera Lewis | ... | Elvira Pennywinkle |
| Sarah Edwards | ... | Angie Turner (as Sara Edwards) |
| Virginia Sale | ... | Orsina Wiggins |
| Walter Baldwin | ... | Lem Wiggins |
| Mickey Daniels | ... | Elmer, the Grocery Boy |
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USA:Approved (PCA #7654)Fun Stuff
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Mrs. Minerva Snodgrass: Until tonight, you keep your mouth shut.Postman Wilbur Boggs: You, you, you, oh whittle-de-de.
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I first encountered Zasu Pitts as "Trina" in Erich von Stroheim's GREED (1924), but this is not that. Here, she's Miss Pandora Polly, a lady with a big heart and a youthful spirit. Instead of GREED, what we have is a small town being terrorized by a stereotypical "upright and uptight guild." They've literally taken over the town, reducing the mayor to a pawn and passing all sorts of weird ordinances which proscribe amorous or even friendly contact between unmarried youths of the opposite sex. Zasu won't have any of this, and she takes steps to put the town right.
MISS POLLY is a story with one side to root for, the other against. The laughs are plenty, many coming from Slim Summerville as Slim Witkins, Polly's inventor friend. The only sane character in this movie, except for the soon-to-retire mailman, is Zasu's friend (or maid), Patsy (Brenda Forbes), who plays a delightful "straight-man" to Summerville's eccentricity.
It's only 45 minutes long, and it's a delight, especially if you enjoy observing the hypocrites getting their comeuppance.