Boy Trouble (1939)
It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents. Charlie Ruggles stars as a small town shopkeeper whose wife (Mary Boland) adopts a pair of rambunctious orphan boys (Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee). Ruggles is at first hostile towards this invasion of his peace and quiet, but his paternal feelings are aroused when the children become victims of a scarlet fever epidemic. The screenwriters for Boy Trouble were satirist S. J. Perelman and his wife Laura, hardly the most logical candidates for this domestic comedy/drama. The film was meant to launch a B-series titled The Fitch Family, but didn't do well enough at the box office to justify any sequels. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Archainbaud
Synopsis of Boy Trouble
It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents. Charlie Ruggles stars as a small town shopkeeper whose wife (Mary Boland) adopts a pair of rambunctious orphan boys (Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee). Ruggles is at first hostile towards this invasion of his peace and quiet, but his paternal feelings are aroused when the children become victims of a scarlet fever epidemic. The screenwriters for Boy Trouble were satirist S. J. Perelman and his wife Laura, hardly the most logical candidates for this domestic comedy/drama. The film was meant to launch a B-series titled The Fitch Family, but didn't do well enough at the box office to justify any sequels. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Boy Trouble
- Charlie Ruggles - Homer C. Fitch
- Donald O'Connor - Butch
- John Hartley - Wyndham Wilson
- Andrew Tombes - Mr. Snively
- Zeffie Tilbury - Mrs. Jepson
- Harlan Briggs - Mr. Pike
- Sonny Bupp - Boy
- Russell Hicks - Magistrate
- Charles Trowbridge - Mr. Tatum
- Mary Boland - Sybil Fitch
- Joyce Mathews - Patricia Fitch
- Billy Lee - Joe
- Dick Elliott - Dr. Benshlager
- Sarah Edwards - Mrs. Moots
- Josephine Whittell - Mother
- Georgia Caine - Mrs. Ungerlelder
- Grace Hayle - Fat Mother
- Spencer Charters - Grocer Bradley
- Director(s):
- George Archainbaud
- Writer(s):
- Laura Perelman, S.J. Perelman
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