Mama Loves Papa (1945 film)

Mama Loves Papa is a 1945 American blackandwhite comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer, and written by Monte Brice, with a story by Keene Thompson and a screenplay by Charles E. Roberts, as a loose remake of the 1933 film of the same name written by Douglas MacLean. The film was produced by RKO Radio Pictures and stars Leon Errol and Elizabeth Risdon.

Wilbur Leon Errol is a middleclass furniture store employee. His wife Jessie Elisabeth Risdon reads a book about how women can make their men more successful, and decides to remake her husband to give him a new image. Now dressedforsuccess by his wife, Wilbur reports for work in fancy clothes. Thinking he is dressed for a funeral, his boss Edwin Maxwell, sends Wilbur home for the day. When Wilbur is wandering perplexed in a nearby park, he is mistaken for the Park Commissioner. Seeing it as an opportunity, McIntosh Paul Harvey, a crooked politician who wishes to land a lucrative deal with the city to sell them new playground equipment, has the mayor Robert Middlemass appoint Wilbur as Playground Commissioner. Later, when Wilbur is about to denounce McIntosh as a crook, McIntosh has his wife Charlotte Wynters ply Wilbur with champagne. While Wilbur is tipsy, Jessie overhears a flirtatious and damning conversation between the two. Wilbur wakes up with a hangover, no pants, and learns that while intoxicated he brought disgrace to himself, the town, and his wife. Wilbur eventually exposes the political corruption, and when his wife finally agrees to let him leave politics, everything turns out okay.Waycross JournalHerald wrote that the film was the hilarious results of domesticity gone wild. Conversely, TV Guide wrote that when RKO bought the rights to Paramounts 1933 film for 85,000, they ended up creating a film worth about 5. Hal Erickson of Rovi wrote that with a change in plot devices and modification of script, the film was only a loose remake of the 1935 Charlie RugglesMary Boland comedy of the same name, and notes the sole redeeming feature to be Leon Errols rubber legs routine already familiar to his fans. ........

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