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5.7/10   67 votes
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Director:
Fred Guiol
Writers:
Eugene Conrad (screenplay)
Edward E. Seabrook (screenplay)
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Release Date:
14 November 1941 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Mrs. Minerva Snodgrass heads up the town's Purity League and is so good at imposing restrictions of... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
It was good, but it could not have been longer. more

Cast

  (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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Additional Details

Runtime:
45 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #7654)

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Mrs. Minerva Snodgrass: Until tonight, you keep your mouth shut.
Postman Wilbur Boggs: You, you, you, oh whittle-de-de.
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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
It was good, but it could not have been longer., 8 January 2007
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Author: mkilmer from United States

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.

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