Penny Wisdom

Penny Wisdom is a 1937 American short comedy film directed by David Miller and produced by Pete Smith. The film won an Academy Award in 1938 for Best Short Subject Color. This could be considered a remake of the MGM short film Menu 1933, also produced by Pete Smith.

The scene starts as Matthew E. Smudge calls his wife, Chloe, to inform her that hes bringing his boss and a customer home for dinner. Unstressed, Chloe enters the kitchen, expecting to tell the cook there will be two more for dinner she finds a note. Apparently, her constant highmaintenance demands have caused her culinary queen to quit. Chloe haplessly attempts to fix dinner herself.An hour has transpired and Chloe has burnt the roast beef, dropped a flour bucket on the dog to which the narrator remarks, Gosh, it aint a fit night for man nor beast., and ultimately turned the kitchen into a complete disaster. Pete Smith, as narrator, asks sobbing Chloe the whereabouts of a telephone. He decides to make a personal call to Prudence Penny, advice columnist for the Los Angeles Examiner. Withminutes before the husband and company arrives, Penny shows doubtful Chloe how to prepare a full course, mouthwatering meal with what is left in the icebox as well as applying unusual housewife remedies to salvage some of Chloes cooking. ........

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