Edgar rolls up to a general store in Them Thar Hills, and asks to speak to the proprietor, Si Jenks. He's selling labor-saving devices: electric fans, washing machines and so forth. Apparently the TVA and Rural Electrification have hit these parts. Jenks agrees on one condition. He wants to marry widow Fern Emmet, but he can't talk with Edgar's smooth tongue. If Edgar will get the lady to marry him, Jenks will buy everything he has. Edgar agrees. Poor Edgar.
It's certainly far from the usual episode of Kennedy's THE COMMON MAN, a series he starred in for RKO from 1931 through his death in 1948. Almost every one of them is a domestic comedy, with Florence Rice, Vivian Tobin or some other comedienne playing his nitwit wife, and Dot Farley, Jack Rice, or Billy Franey usually in some combination as annoying in-laws. I think that old pal Monte Collins likely needed some money and sold a script to the Kennedy unit, and that's how this came about. Or maybe not.
It's certainly far from the usual episode of Kennedy's THE COMMON MAN, a series he starred in for RKO from 1931 through his death in 1948. Almost every one of them is a domestic comedy, with Florence Rice, Vivian Tobin or some other comedienne playing his nitwit wife, and Dot Farley, Jack Rice, or Billy Franey usually in some combination as annoying in-laws. I think that old pal Monte Collins likely needed some money and sold a script to the Kennedy unit, and that's how this came about. Or maybe not.
