Reducing

Jan 3, 1931

1h 17m

★ 4.3

CHEATING the scales and chasing the blues...a hurricane hunt for an eight-ounce pound!

Overview

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Reducing Trailers

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Cast

Marie Truffle

Marie Dressler

Polly Roche

Polly Moran

Vivian Truffle

Anita Page

Joyce Roche

Sally Eilers

Elmer Truffle

Lucien Littlefield

Johnnie Beasley

William Collier Jr.

Tommy Haverly

William Bakewell

Marty Truffle

Jay Ward

Jerry Truffle

Billy Naylor

Ticket Agent

Roscoe Ates

Beasley's Butler

Sidney Bracey

Man on Train with Big Mustache (uncredited)

Jules Cowles

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