Reducing
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“CHEATING the scales and chasing the blues...a hurricane hunt for an eight-ounce pound!”
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
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Cast
16 people
Marie Dressler
Marie Truffle
Known for
Dinner at Eight
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Polly Moran
Polly Roche
Known for
Adam's Rib
Show People
Anita Page
Vivian Truffle
Known for
The Broadway Melody
Sally Eilers
Joyce Roche
Also in
Bad Girl
The Black Camel
Lucien Littlefield
Elmer Truffle
Known for
Sons of the Desert
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
William Collier Jr.
Johnnie Beasley
Known for
Little Caesar
Cimarron
George Reed
Train Porter
William Bakewell
Tommy Haverly
Known for
All Quiet on the Western Front
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Jay Ward
Marty Truffle
Also in
Pilgrimage
To the Last Man
Billy Naylor
Jerry Truffle
Also in
Six Faces West
Telling Whoppers
Roscoe Ates
Ticket Agent
Known for
Freaks
Alice in Wonderland
Sidney Bracey
Beasley's Butler
Known for
The Cameraman
Show People
Charles Reisner Director · Leonard Smith Cinematographer William LeVanway Editor
Worldwide gross $1.5M · Budget $222K · United States release January 3, 1931
Box office
Budget
$222,000
Worldwide gross
$1,505,000
Gross vs. budget
6.8×
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 3, 1931
Theatrical
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