Certain performers are not for all tastes, and the rambunctious Patsy Kelly is someone who will definitely fall in that category for those expecting sophisticated comedy. This raucous Irish comic could sing and dance and mug and act with the best of them, and here, she gets to do everything in her very first feature lead. She meets prizefighter Guinn "Big Boy" Williams quite by accident and ask her a rather tempestuous meeting oh, she becomes his manager and his gal. but romance is the furthest thing from her mind as she tries to get him ready for the big fight with the help of what's a Charley Chase, and they end up on a farm where she goes head to toe with various farm animals, then ends up back in Manhattan where she goes had to tell with monster Edward Brophy and moll Pert Kelton. Getting Williams to fight his best by playing an Irish jig, she definitely breaks a few price fighting rules, but who cares? It's an entertaining Hal Roach comedy made through MGM where even Alfalfa makes an appearance!
Patsy Kelly came from the Broadway stage via vaudeville and burlesque, and works very late into her life, returning to Broadway with great success after several decades in obscurity. of course, fans of the horror classic "Rosemary's Baby" will remember her as Ruth Gordon's friend, basically stealing the few moments that she was on screen with the same trick she had been playing 30 years before as an entertainer. She can't help but bark every line, yet there is something extremely lovable about her. Pert Kelton tries to match her in toughness and does steal one moment when Kelly shows up at the big match in a huge fake beard. This is a very likable film that moves at a very speedy pace, stolen by a perky Irish lass who had a very unorthodox career but is fondly remembered today.
Patsy Kelly came from the Broadway stage via vaudeville and burlesque, and works very late into her life, returning to Broadway with great success after several decades in obscurity. of course, fans of the horror classic "Rosemary's Baby" will remember her as Ruth Gordon's friend, basically stealing the few moments that she was on screen with the same trick she had been playing 30 years before as an entertainer. She can't help but bark every line, yet there is something extremely lovable about her. Pert Kelton tries to match her in toughness and does steal one moment when Kelly shows up at the big match in a huge fake beard. This is a very likable film that moves at a very speedy pace, stolen by a perky Irish lass who had a very unorthodox career but is fondly remembered today.