ZIS BOOM BAH (1941)
Comedy
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1h 1m
With Peter Lind Hayes, Huntz Hall and Skeets Gallagher. Grace Haye (essentially playing herself) has been playing the vaudeville circuit to finance her son's college education.
Tiring of the road, she goes incognito to visit her son (played by her real-life son Peter Lind Hayes) with her assistant Mary Healy (played by her real-life daughter-in-law of the same name). She finds her son and the college "going to Hell in a hand basket".
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