“The hit that kept Broadway laughing for one solid year!”
Big Hearted Herbert
5.5
4 votes·1934
·1h 0m
·MovieComedy
Overview
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Keywords
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Cast
Aline MacMahon
Elizabeth Kalness
Guy Kibbee
Herbert Kalness
Patricia Ellis
Alice Kalness
Helen Lowell
Martha
Phillip Reed
Andrew Goodrich
Robert Barrat
Jim
Henry O'Neill
Goodrich Sr.
Marjorie Gateson
Amy Godrich
Nella Walker
Mrs. Goodrich
Junior Durkin
Junior Kainess
Jay Ward
Robert Kainess
Claudia Coleman
Mrs. Havens
George Chandler
Murphy (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
IRS Tax Investigator (uncredited)
Gay Seabrook
Miss Plunket - Herberts Secretary (uncredited)
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