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A Wife's Life (1950) Online

A Wife's Life (1950) Online
1950 Pete Smith Dorothy Short Dave OBrien Dave OBrien
Original Title :
A Wifeu0027s Life
Genre :
Movie / Short / Comedy
Year :
1950
Directror :
Dave O'Brien
Cast :
Pete Smith,Dorothy Short,Dave O'Brien
Writer :
Julian Harmon,Dave O'Brien
Type :
Movie
Time :
8min
Rating :
5.9/10

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As she starts dinner after a trying day, Mrs. George T. Hardnose calls her husband to say she wants to go to a movie that night; he says, nothing doing, he's tired, he's worked hard, and ... See full summary

A Wife's Life (1950) Online

As she starts dinner after a trying day, Mrs. George T. Hardnose calls her husband to say she wants to go to a movie that night; he says, nothing doing, he's tired, he's worked hard, and what has she done all day. In a series of flashbacks, we see - starting with getting George out of bed and off to work, bathing an obstreperous three year old, dealing with stopped drains and a faulty defroster, doing dishes, cajoling a rich uncle, washing clothes, mopping floors, sweeping behind heavy furniture, cleaning the stove and a rug, and cooking dinner. When George asks her after dinner to let him have the paper, she lets him have it.
Cast overview:
Pete Smith Pete Smith - Narrator (voice)
Dorothy Short Dorothy Short - Mrs. George T. Hardnose - Wife (as Mrs. Dave O'Brien)

Dorothy Short was married to Dave O'Brien (AKA David Barclay) from 1936 - 1954 and appeared with him in the notorious Tell Your Children (1936) (aka "Reefer Madness") as well as other Pete Smith shorts.

When the little girl is in the bathtub covered in bubble bath suds, the "Halloween" mask she is wearing is a caricature of Pete Smith, long time producer of the series.


User reviews

Ballazan

Ballazan

I love these Pete Smith Specialties, mainly because you can always depend on DAVE O'BRIEN to give 100% to his performance, whether it be shaving in the morning before he's completely awake or taking one of his numerous pratfalls.

This time it's the wife (DOROTHY SHORT) who gets the spotlight as the lady of the house who wants hubby to take her to the movies after dinner. She calls him up at work and he rejects the idea because he'll be too tired by evening. He exclaims, "After all, what have you done all day?" We then see a series of montages showing the little wife cleaning house, taking care of the baby girl, pushing furniture around, and literally knocking herself out on the daily chores. When hubby gets home and still refuses to budge from his favorite chair, you can guess what happens next.

Summing up: Just plain fun.
Bedy

Bedy

Wife's Life, A (1950)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Pete Smith short has a husband (Dave O'Brien) refusing to take his wife to the movies because he feels she doesn't do anything at home. We then see everything she actually does do including waking her lazy husband up for work, bathing their young daughter, cooking and various cleaning. This short is fairly good with a couple nice laughs but the writing isn't as good as it could have been, which leaves a lot of the jokes coming off rather bland. The highlight is the sequence where the mom leaves the daughter alone in the tub and she reaches for the soap but ends up putting too much in the tub. The scenes trying to wake the husband up were rather forced but entertaining.