The Pharmacist

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A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.

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W.C. Fields

Mr. Dilweg

Marjorie Kane

Priscilla Dilweg
(as Babe Kane)

Elise Cavanna

Mrs. Grace Dilweg

Grady Sutton

Cuthbert Smith

Lorena Carr

Ooleota Dilweg

Joe Bordeaux

Gunman
(uncredited)

Jack Cooper

Minor Role
(uncredited)

James Donnelly

Street Sweeper
(uncredited)

Junior Fuller

Second Man Who Helps Fainting Woman
(uncredited)

Julia Griffith

Fainting Woman
(uncredited)

Barney Hellum

Second Checkers Player
(uncredited)

Efe Jackson

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Si Jenks

First Checkers Player
(uncredited)

William McCall

First Man Who Helps Fainting Woman
(uncredited)

Emma Tansey

Old Lady Customer
(uncredited)

Arthur Thalasso

Postage Stamp Customer
(uncredited)

Director
- Arthur Ripley
Writer
- W.C. Fields
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10/10

W. C. Fields' Short Subject Is Long On Laughs

A MACK SENNETT Short Subject.

Caught between his frightful female relations on the second floor & the rather odd customers down in the shop, THE PHARMACIST in a small town reacts with predictably irascible behavior.

Initially conceived as a skit in 1925 for the Ziegfeld Follies by the inimitable W. C. Fields, THE PHARMACIST become one of a quartet of short subjects produced by Mack Sennett in the early 1930's. Fortunately, Fields was given full rein to control the film as he saw fit. The success of the shorts gave a new glow to Sennett's reputation, as many in Hollywood thought the old comedy master was washed-up with the end of the Silents. For Fields, this was the opportunity to paint large on a small canvas, going straight for the laughs (based on his unique personality) without any time wasted on character development or plot complexities.

Elise Cavanna plays Fields' ghastly wife & Babe Kane is his canary-munching daughter. (Looking enough alike to be sisters, these two actresses were actually only seven years apart in age.) Grady Sutton has a small role as the much-maligned Cuthbert.