Mister Cinderella

Series: All Star feature

Director: Edward Sedgwick

Producer: Edward Sedgwick, Hal Roach

Screenplay: Richard Flournoy, Arthur Vernon Jones

Photography: Milton R. Krasner

Editor: Jack Ogilvie

Sound: William Randall

Stars: Jack Haley, Betty Furness, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn, Robert McWade, Rosina Lawrence, Monroe Owsley, Kathleen Lockhart, Edward Brophy

Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Released: 23 October 1936

Length: 8 reels

Production No.: F-9

Filming dates: 1936

Rating: -/10

Mister Cinderella

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Betty Furness and Jack Haley in Mister Cinderella (1936)

Mr. G.W. Mason arrives at The Biltwell Hotel and heads straight for the barbers for a haircut. Joe Jenkins (JACK HALEY) is the employee who takes charge of the job and the two men engage in conversation but when Joe gets distracted by an end-of-shift bell he accidentally shaves off a massive chunk of Mason's hair. Joe pays a visit to Mr. Merriweather in his hotel apartment and tries to rouse him from a state of being drunk. Whilst Joe tries his best to wake up Merriweather, the company boss Mr. Randolph calls his daughter Patricia to arrange for Merriweather to go out for a dinner appointment. Patricia calls Merriweather's room and Joe takes the call. Thinking she is talking to Merriweather, she tells him to meet her for dinner at 8pm. The flustered (and besoted) Joe tries to convince Merriweather to keep the date but he insists he has to be somewhere else and so talks Joe into going to the dinner instead. As Patricia has never met her Merriweather she doesn't know what he looks like.
Merriweather leaves his apartment and is promptly knocked down by a car in the street. Meanwhile Joe attends the dinner engagement and fails to correct the host when he is assumed to be the expected Merriweather. His introduction to Patricia is through a conversation with her on the floor after he falls into her. After she introduces him to some guests, one of which loses part of her dress when Joe steps on it, she leads him off for dinner. After dinner (which we don't get to see) Patricia takes Joe out on a speedboat and stops in the middle of the ocean when they run out of gas. Joe has to paddle to an island owned by her father in order to try and get some gasoline but it's all a ploy to trap Joe inside a shack so as he cannot wander off. Patricia quickly returns to her boat to get away but is unable to leave because Joe has accidentally ripped out the leads which operate the boat, which renders her alone on the island with him.

Patricia tries to push her boat but falls into the sea. Soaking wet, she returns to the cabin, gives Joe a mouthful and kicks him out before getting out of her now-wet clothes (unfortunately we don't get to see that!) Moments later she screams for help because she sees a mouse. Joe rushes in to 'save' her but knocks over the stove and sets fire to the cabin. The next morning the two of them wake up on the beach having spent the night outside. Joe confesses he is not Merriweather, the man Patricia thought he was. After another argument they spot a small boat and hitch a ride to the mainland. When the two of them are seen together the gossip wagon begins.
Patricia takes Joe back to her house but they are collared by her father who demands an explanation as to why she is wearing the man's clothes. Patricia lies and tells him that the man is Merriweather. Mr. Randolph acts as though he is angry but secretly is overjoyed.

Jack Haley, Raymond Walburn and Betty Furness in Mister Cinderella (1936)

Trivia
• Copyrighted October 21, 1936.
• Joe Jenkins' character is dubbed "Mister Cinderella" by Merriweather when he dresses him up to go to the dinner appointment in his place.
• The couple who play Mr. & Mrs. Wilberforce were real-life husband and wife John Hyams and Leila McIntyre.

	Jack Haley Joe Jenkins
	Betty Furness Patricia Randolph
	Arthur Treacher Watkins, Randolph's butler
	Raymond Walburn Peter Randolph
	Robert McWade J.J. Gates
	Rosina Lawrence Maizie Merryweather
	Monroe Owsley Aloysius P. Merriweather
	Fay Holderness Pedestrian who witnesses accident
	Kathleen Lockhart Aunt Penelope Winfield
	Edward Brophy Detective McNutt
	Charlotte Wynters Martha
	Tom Dugan Spike Nolan
	Iris Adrian Lil, Maizie's friend
	Bert Roach Mr. G.W. Mason
	Toby Wing Lulu, the cashier
	Antonio Filauri Sam, the barber
	Rex Moore Newsboy
	John Hyams Mr. Wilberforce
	Leila McIntyre Mrs. Wilberforce
	Harry Myers Man at party helping splashed woman
	Ellinor Vanderveer Splashed woman at party
	Morgan Wallace Emmett Fawcett
	Arthur Aylesworth Mr. Simpson
	Ernie Alexander First taxi driver
	Harry Bernard Old Ford driver
	Ralph Brooks Martha's companion at party
	Nick Copeland Policeman calling for ambulance
	Phyllis Crane Gossiping woman
	Jack Egan Party guest
	Bess Flowers Nurse
	J.C. Fowler Member of Board of Directors
	Carlton Griffin Member of Board of Directors
	Eddie Hart Randolph's chauffeur
	George W. Jiminez Member of Board of Directors
	Charles Judles Randolph's chef
	Jack Kingsbury Member of Board of Directors
	G.L. McDonnell Member of Board of Directors
	William Newell First hotel clerk
	Stanley Price Second hotel clerk
	Syd Saylor Mr. Fitch
	Charles Sullivan Second taxi driver
	Bobbie Koshay Stand-in