Big Timers (1945)
1945 · Short film · 36 min · dir. Bud Pollard
- Comedy
- musical film
Synopsis
A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his "class" because of her beautiful, classically trained singing voice. In actuality, she is the daughter of a poor hotel maid, and in order to keep the boyfriend from finding out just how poor the family is, the mother manages to get a fancy room in the hotel to try to convince him that her daughter is "good enough" for him.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Bud Pollard
- Released
- 1945-01-02
- Running time
- 36 minutes
Cast & crew
- Bud Pollard Director
Stepin Fetchit
Francine Everett
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Big Entertainment in Big Timers · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-10
There are those who can't stand Stepin Fetchit - there are those who don't like songs about women getting beaten by their man and who still love him. What can you do - both of these things were products of their times and typical of prevailing attitudes. Stepin Fetchit still plays Stepin Fetchit in a race film, no doubt almost exclusively seen by black audiences of the 1940s. If you can get past these flawed approaches and attitudes, then this is a very enjoyable film, basically a stage show of fine singing and dancing. Francine Everett (Betty Washburn) was beautiful, talented and famous. The…
★★★★ · cool show · flickfdude · 2008-03-13
Entertaining and interesting. It was funny and enjoyable.
★★★★ · Important American History · abraxas69 · 2012-05-06
Shame the peron who put this up hasnt put many relevant tags on with it. If you were looking for any material relevant to Afro-americans for research purposes you would have to dig deep to find this. It shows the status issues of black folks of the era etc. Deservs to be seen by more people
