'SCATTERBRAIN'
A mad mirthqnak© of humour is Republic’s ‘ Scatterbrain.’ Judy Canova is definitely the comedienne of the hour, her work in the starring role ranking her with the Marx Brothers, Martha Raye, the Ritz Brothers, and all others in whom the gift of comedy rises to genius proportions. Judy is the hillbilly girl brought to Hollywood through error. But in her own winsomely dumb way she dehunks the film colony and proves to her distraught employers that she is a gold mine in disguise. Eddy Foy, jun., plays opposite Miss Canova, enacting the fast-talking Press agent who gets himself in and out of trouble with lightning rapidity. Joe Cawthorne contributes a really classic performance as Nicolas Baptist, who is a thinly-disguised prototype of Sam Goldwyn. Man Mowbray is suave and urbane as J. R. Russell, producer-direc-tor, who finds a hillbilly on his hands instead of a motion picture star.
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Evening Star, Issue 23723, 2 November 1940, Page 5
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149'SCATTERBRAIN' Evening Star, Issue 23723, 2 November 1940, Page 5
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