Helping Grandma
About Helping Grandma
Mrs. Margaret Mack, played by Margaret Mann, runs a grocery, and the Our Gang children wait on customers for her. A chain store will pay more than the store is worth. Mr. Pennypacker, played by Oscar Apfel, offers $1,500 and wants her signature at once. While she is out, the children answer the telephone and the chain offer climbs to a flat $5,000. Pennypacker imitates her voice on the phone. She hits him. When he threatens her, Wheezer hits him with a hammer.
Cast & crew
More about Helping Grandma
Robert F. McGowan directed this Our Gang short, the 103rd in the series, for release by MGM on 3 January 1931. Art Lloyd photographed it. The children include Matthew Beard as Stymie, Norman Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy DeBorba, Allen Hoskins as Farina, and Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer.
Themes
Notes
- A circulating copy runs 20 minutes and 53 seconds.
- The children call Mrs. Mack Grandma. She is not related to them.
- Del Henderson and William Gillespie play the chain-store men in Our Gang cast lists.
- Pennypacker's offer is $1,500. The chain's last bid on the phone is $5,000.
Scenes
- Each phone call pushes the chain-store bid higher, up to $5,000.
- Wheezer brings a hammer down on Pennypacker.
