Mama Runs Wild (1937)

7.0/10 67 min Comedy Family Romance

Overview

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).

Cast

Mary Boland

Alice Summers

Ernest Truex

Ernest Summers

William Henry

Paul Fowler

Lynne Roberts

Edith Summers (as Lynn Roberts)

Max Terhune

Applegate

Joseph Crehan

Tom Fowler

Dorothy Page

Mrs. Hayes

Dewey Robinson

Greengable

Julius Tannen

C. Preston Simms

Sammy McKim

Boy

John Sheehan

Snodey

James C. Morton

Adams

Dora Clement

Dowager (uncredited)

Hal K. Dawson

Bank Robber (uncredited)

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