Barnyard Follies
Cast & Crew
Frank Mcdonald
Mary Lee
Rufe Davis
June Storey
Jed Prouty
Victor Kilian
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Pappy, the manager of the Farmdale orphanage, appropriates five thousand dollars of the taxpayers' money to enroll his charges in a 4-H project that could make the orphanage self-sufficent. This infuriates Hiram Crabtree and Sam Spitz, who profit from selling supplies to the orphanage and therefore have no desire to see it become self-sufficient. Consequently, Crabtree and Spitz charge Pappy with misappropriation of funds and demand that he repay the money immediately. Just when things look bad for Pappy, he learns that he has inherited a nightclub and goes to the city to investigate. There he finds that the club is insolvent and that the performers are demanding their salaries. Pappy suggests that they come to Farmdale to work for their wages, and when the performers learn of the plight of the orphanage, they offer to stage a show to recoup the shortage in funds. Crabtree and Spitz, still trying to retain control of the orphanage, invoke a fire ordinance to prevent the show from being staged in a barn. To invalidate the ordinance, the orphans set fire to a haystack, and as the fire engines speed toward the fire, the youngsters chop down the bridge, stranding the trucks at the barn. The presence of the fire trucks offsets the fire hazard, and the show goes on. After Mrs. Uppington, a local dowager, exposes the motives of Spitz and Crabtree, the orphans continue to work on their 4-H project with the promise that they will be self-sufficient by the fall.
Director
Frank Mcdonald
Cast
Mary Lee
Rufe Davis
June Storey
Jed Prouty
Victor Kilian
Joan Woodbury
Carl "alfalfa" Switzer
Robert Homans
Dorothy Harrison
Harry "pappy" Cheshire
Mary Jane De Zurik
Carolyn De Zurik
Jim Jeffries
The Kidoodlers
Ralph Bowman
Isabel Randolph
Crew
Charles Craft
Charles Davenport
Josephine Earl
Cy Feuer
John Victor Mackay
Johnny Marvin
Dorrell Mcgowan
Stuart Mcgowan
Sol Meyer
Ernest Miller
Adele Palmer
Fred Rose
Charlotte Salisbury
Armand Schaefer
Murray Seldeen
Robert T. Shannon
Jule Styne
George Webster
Al Wilson
Film Details
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Notes
Actor Ralph Bowman who plays "Jeff" in the cast is listed as John Archer in the Hollywood Reporter production chart, a name which he used in his two previous films, the 1939 RKO film Career and the 1940 RKO film Curtain Call (see entries above). John Archer was also the name he used in his films subsequent to Barnyard Follies. In addition to Harry Chesire, the star of a St. Louis radio show entitled Barnyard Follies, this picture featured other well-known rural performers, such as the Cackle Sisters, the Kidoodlers, Jim Jeffries and Isabel Randolph.
