The Old Fashioned Way (film)

The Old Fashioned Way is a 1934 comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by William Beaudine and stars W. C. Fields. The script was written by Jack Cunningham based on a story by Charles Bogle one of Fieldss writing pseudonyms.

Wallys wealthy father Oscar Apfel arrives in the town where the troupe is scheduled to perform a Victorian melodrama, William H. Smiths popular temperance play, The Drunkard. One of the players has resigned, and Wally wins the part, affording him a chance to act and also to perform a couple of songs in his strong tenor voice. His father is impressed by his sons talent, and his skepticism about Betty is eased when he learns that she has been trying to get Wally to return to college.McGonigle has an eye on Cleopatra Pepperday Jan Duggan, a wealthy and untalented widow, and her infant son Baby LeRoy, and exploits her to stave off the local sheriff, who is Pepperdays boyfriend. To secure her support, McGonigle promises her a cameo role in The Drunkard, with one line Here comes the prince. The play has no reference to any prince of course, and act after act comes and goes with her rehearsing her line in fond hope, but her cue never comes. At the end of the play, distraught and crying, she goes off to get the sheriff. After the play concludes, McGonigle comes onstage and performs a juggling act. ........

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