Bubbling Over

(1934)

20 min.

Cast:  Ethel Waters, Southernaires Quartet, Hamtree Harrington

In this all-black short musical comedy a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without waking him up, but announcing lunch gets him up pretty fast.  She’s also saddled with a bevy of his lazy relatives.  Four more come by and sing as a quartet.  After the wife learns they had been traveling men, she advises them to keep traveling and kicks them out.