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Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.Read moreLess
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
The story
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
Cast & crew
Charles RugglesOrville Shanks
Alice BradyMelba Shanks
Lyle TalbotCrane
Benny BakerSparrow
Gene LockhartBottles
Jack La RueCruger
Jon HallScoutmaster Davis
Frankie Darro
William DemarestDroopy
Robert BaldwinJimmy Jeeper
Nick StewartButler (as Nicodemus)
Paul HarveyBranniganExplore the crew
- Director
- Norman Z. McLeod
- Screenplay
- Dore Schary
- Original Music Composer
- Charles Bradshaw
- Producer
- Emanuel Cohen
- Original Music Composer
- Leo Shuken
- Original Music Composer
- Sam Coslow
- Director of Photography
- Robert Pittack
- Editor
- George McGuire