Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Norman Abbott
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- TriviaThis film was not successful at the box office, resulting in a loss of $42,000 ($744,000 in 2023) according to studio records.
- GoofsWhen Martha is drawing a face on the soaped window, in the long shot of her doing so it is quite simple, but in the next closeup shot the figure is much more complicated and complete as she's looking through it.
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Mrs. McKessic: Well, bust my britches!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015)
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screwball comedy based on play, lots of stars
We open with a narrator describing the quiet, calm life in Rock Bay, where even the horses wear silencers on their hooves to keep the peace. Then we're in the dining rooms of high society, where we find out that SOMEONE's maid has a written a "Tell-all" book about the private goings on in town... Keep an eye out for Spring Byington as the high-society Mrs. Sommerfield, and Margaret Hamilton in a smaller role a couple years after Gone With the Wind.... Grady Sutton is in here as Justin Peacock Jr (he made all those films with W.C. Fields). The awesome Marjorie Main was Ma Kettle, and also a major role in "The Women", is in here as Mrs. McKessic; Virginia Weidler is the daughter Miranda Sommerfield... you may remember her as "Mary", also from "The Women". The real story here is the class war where the maids all gather together, and the society women band together to find out who has written the book, and decide what to do about it. With that collection of stars, this one should be great, but as of September 2009, only 89 votes and 3 plot comments on IMDb. The lesser known Marsha Hunt stars in this MGM short, but it's really an ensemble film. Fun, wacky, screenplay by Isobel Lennart, who also wrote the screenplay for Funny Girl, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Anchors Aweigh, and soooo many more big time films. You can tell this was originally a play, with all the fast, clever talking. Excellent clear photography and sound. Directed by Jules Dassin, who had worked with Hitchcock. He apparently worked in France after being part of the McCarthy hearings, and was quite successful.
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- Sep 16, 2009
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- $240,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Affairs of Martha (1942) officially released in Canada in English?
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