One of the seven little Foy's actually went on to become a very successful comic in his own right. Eddie Foy jr. Is one of the few people who got to repeat his Broadway roles in "The Pajama Game" and "Bells are Ringing" on the big screen. prior to that, he had been a busy comedian on the stage and a featured comic in several B movies. But here, he is a star of his own short and very amusing as a starving song and dance man what's a young daughter who goes to see the head of a movie studio (Jack Norton), and gets the surprise of his life who Norton, believing him to be a masseur, pulls his pants off and tells Foy a to give it to him good.
Of course, Floyd is out of there faster than lightning, leading to a search for him around the studio when Norton decides that he wants to put him in his next film and this leads to more mishaps. I don't think anybody in 1945 saw the insinuations that more contemporary audiences 75 years later would see. When Floyd gets into drag to appear in a chorus line, it really hits the heights of pure Camp. Maybe as a short without the insinuations that today's audiences would pick up, it would just be an amusing little comedy short, but it becomes all the more funny the point and laugh at with what comes of it today and in modern sensibility. Norton, usually cast as the town drunk, is equally funny sober as intoxicated. That's popular TV character actress Maudie Prickett as the prim-and-proper secretary.
Of course, Floyd is out of there faster than lightning, leading to a search for him around the studio when Norton decides that he wants to put him in his next film and this leads to more mishaps. I don't think anybody in 1945 saw the insinuations that more contemporary audiences 75 years later would see. When Floyd gets into drag to appear in a chorus line, it really hits the heights of pure Camp. Maybe as a short without the insinuations that today's audiences would pick up, it would just be an amusing little comedy short, but it becomes all the more funny the point and laugh at with what comes of it today and in modern sensibility. Norton, usually cast as the town drunk, is equally funny sober as intoxicated. That's popular TV character actress Maudie Prickett as the prim-and-proper secretary.
