- Director
- Murray Roth(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaVitaphone production reel #835.
- SoundtracksWhen Will the Sun Shine for Me?
(uncredited)
Music by Abner Silver
Lyrics by Benny Davis
Sung by the stenographer
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At The Hotel
Billie "Swede" Hall plays a cleaner at a hotel, who talks with the public typist, wrangles with the bellboy over the bootleg booze stored in the fire extinguisher, and narrates her incoherent life with many a long-explained pun in this sketch comedy.
There's nothing much about Hall on the Internet, so I guess, like others, he played a big, bluff immigrant maid-of-all-work on the stage to humorous effect; Wallace Beery's earliest films had him in drag playing "Sweedie", a similar character. Hall and his company go through some of the standard statement and response forms.
Hall: My boyfriend says we're getting married this winter.
Second banana: Your boyfriend says you getting married this winter?
Hall: He says it'll be a XXXXX cold day when we get married.
That sort of structure. It gets the joke accomplished. It's watchable, in a stereotyped sort of way.
There's nothing much about Hall on the Internet, so I guess, like others, he played a big, bluff immigrant maid-of-all-work on the stage to humorous effect; Wallace Beery's earliest films had him in drag playing "Sweedie", a similar character. Hall and his company go through some of the standard statement and response forms.
Hall: My boyfriend says we're getting married this winter.
Second banana: Your boyfriend says you getting married this winter?
Hall: He says it'll be a XXXXX cold day when we get married.
That sort of structure. It gets the joke accomplished. It's watchable, in a stereotyped sort of way.
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- Also known as
- Billie 'Swede' Hall & Company in 'Hilda'
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- Runtime9 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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