Bubbling Over

Bubbling Over

Bubbling Over

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Bubbling Over

1934

0h 20m

3.7(3 votes)

Comedy

Overview

In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up... but announcing lunch gets him up pretty fast. She's also saddled with a bevy of his lazy relatives. Four more come by and sing as a quartet. After the wife learns they had been traveling men, she advises them to keep traveling and kicks them out...

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Ethel Waters

Ethel Peabody

Ethel Waters

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Hamtree Harrington

Presbee Peabody

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Frank L. Wilson

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