Here Comes Cookie

Gracie Allen’s madcap comedy is fully unleashed in “Here Comes Cookie.”
Gracie’s millionaire father Harrison Allen (George Barbier) signs control of his fortune over to Gracie for two months in a ploy to convince her sister’s gold-digging suitor Ramon (Rafael Storm) that she and her father are penniless. In Gracie’s perpetually confused mind, she believes her father not only wants to look poor but wants her to squander the fortune until the family really is poor. After reading in the newspaper that Los Angeles is full of “hungry” unemployed actors, she gives a mob of down-on-their luck vaudeville acts room and board and free run of the mansion — and even mounts a show for them, which becomes an unexpected hit. This is 1930s screwball comedy at its nuttiest — with a trained seal in the bathtub and the disheveled butler sleeping on a park bench. The movie is a treat for Gracie Allen fans, but may wear a bit on those who prefer her humor in small doses. (63 min.)

Not rated - 1935

Director:
Norman Z. McLeod

Starring:
George Burns
Gracie Allen
George Barbier
Betty Furness
Andrew Tombes
Rafael Storm
James Burke
Jack Powell
The Six Olympics
The Buccaneers
The Six Candreya Brothers

Writers:
Don Hartman (story and screenplay)
Sam Mintz (story)