Love on a Budget

Mar 4, 1938

1h 0m

★ 0.0

YOUNG LOVE HAS TROUBLE MAKING ENDS MEET...and Dad gets caught in between!

Overview

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Love on a Budget Trailers

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Cast

John Jones

Jed Prouty

Louise Jones

Spring Byington

Bonnie Jones Thompson

Shirley Deane

Herbert Thompson

Russell Gleason

Uncle Charles Dixon

Alan Dinehart

Granny Ida Jones

Florence Roberts

Jack Jones

Kenneth Howell

Roger Jones

George Ernest

Lucy Jones

June Carlson

Bobby Jones

Billy Mahan

Betty Fisher

Dixie Dunbar

Emory Fisher

Paul Harvey

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