“Bubbling Over” is a 1934 American musical comedy short film directed by Leigh Jason. The story follows Samson Peabody, a janitor living in an apartment building with his wife, Ethel, and a large group of freeloading relatives. When even more relatives arrive, Ethel finally has enough and throws them out. Meanwhile, a scheming tenant reads Samson’s mail and pretends to be a clairvoyant, predicting the arrival of Samson’s wealthy uncle. However, the uncle turns out to be penniless and a pickpocket, stealing everything from watches to a chicken dinner—and even the clothes off the guests in the final scene. The film features musical performances by Ethel Waters and the Southernaires Quartet, though it has been criticized for its use of racial stereotypes
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Director: Leigh Jason
Producer: Meyer Davis, Monroe Shaff
Starring: Ethel Waters, Southernaires Quartet, Hamtree Harrington, Frank L. Wilson
Screenplay: Burnet Hershey
Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
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Credits:
Director: Leigh Jason
Producer: Meyer Davis, Monroe Shaff
Starring: Ethel Waters, Southernaires Quartet, Hamtree Harrington, Frank L. Wilson
Screenplay: Burnet Hershey
Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
#BubblingOver1934 #EthelWaters #ClassicHollywood #MusicalComedy
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00:00What kind of a piece is you doing here?
00:28The chain has broke on my candelabra.
00:31I've waited for the janitor since yesterday.
00:34I'll try to get it fixed for you right away.
00:43Where's your husband?
00:44I've got a complaint.
00:46The door in my bedroom needs me changed.
00:49You want so much attention, it's really a crime.
00:52Well, tell him to come up and let's bring him some time.
00:58How many times must you be told?
01:03I've got to take a bath because the water is cold.
01:06Go get your husband or else you'll see there's going to be trouble.
01:10Are you telling me?
01:21Pausing like a millionaire.
01:23Make believing you don't care.
01:26How you expect to get somewhere.
01:29Taking your time.
01:31What you do you sure do late.
01:34And you always make me wait.
01:37All you do is aggravate.
01:40Take in your time.
01:42Maybe you think you're fine and dandy.
01:45But you better not would.
01:48Just cause you're so handy.
01:51That don't mean you're cruel.
01:53Better change your lazy views.
01:56Or you're going to wake up with the blues.
01:59When you find someone else in your shoes.
02:02Taking your time.
02:04Posing like a millionaire.
02:07Maybe you think you don't care.
02:10How you expect to get somewhere.
02:13Taking your time.
02:15What you do you always do late.
02:18All you do is aggravate.
02:21Seems like you just like to make me wait.
02:24Keep taking your time.
02:26Or maybe you think cause you're fine and dandy.
02:29Well you better not would.
02:32Just cause you're so handy.
02:34That don't prove you're good.
02:37Better change them lazy views.
02:40Or you're going to wake up with the blues.
02:43When you find a new one in your shoes.
02:46Taking your time.
02:48Samson.
02:49Get up or you're going to be late for your afternoon nap.
02:52If that's a sample for marriage and life.
02:55I sure was glad I was just engaged.
02:58Just engaged.
02:59You couldn't get him up with an earthquake.
03:04Oh no.
03:05Well just watch me.
03:21Let me try.
03:22Have that pin.
03:23I've lost it.
03:26My goodness!
03:28Maybe he's dead.
03:30Yeah, from the neck up.
03:32This'll get it.
03:34Lunch him, sirs.
03:40Did I hear y'all say something about lunch?
03:42You sure did, but just make believe I was fooling,
03:44because you ain't going to get nothing, no how.
03:46Well, I ain't did nothing.
03:48As Jess did.
03:50But I was just...
03:52Restin', that's all you and your relatives do, rest.
03:56It's wonder you don't get tired of restin' all the time.
03:58There you go, pickin' on my relatives again.
04:00Look here, man.
04:02If you think I'm gonna feed you and your relation, too,
04:04you got another thing comin'.
04:06Look at him.
04:08There's that lazy niece of yours.
04:10And your Uncle Uranus.
04:12Oh, Uncle Uranus?
04:14Oh, Uncle Uranus?
04:16Well, I ain't did nothin'.
04:18Well, I ain't did nothin'.
04:20Oh, Uncle Uranus, just how do you pass the time?
04:24I don't, Ethel.
04:26I just sit here and let the time pass me.
04:32He's on them.
04:36And your grandpa, Moe.
04:39Your two cousins, Columbia and Pansy.
04:43Them two sleepin' beauties must think this here it's a hotel.
04:47The whole lot of them, just a bunch of good-for-nothing loafers,
04:52livin' off of the fatheads of the land.
04:55Only we happen to be the fatheads.
04:57Now, just to lay off of that,
04:59it seemed to me we was talkin' about lunch.
05:01How about it?
05:03I'll starve.
05:04You ears?
05:05Well, just continue on gazing in that looking glass
05:07and watch yourself starve to death.
05:09Who's that?
05:10Who's that?
05:11Who's that?
05:12Me!
05:13And Joe!
05:14Oh, that's my good old cousin Joe.
05:15Ain't you got nothin' but relation?
05:16Ain't you got no friends?
05:17Surprise!
05:18Can I come in?
05:19You will then.
05:20How are you, Joe?
05:21Where's your baggage?
05:22Well, I ain't bought much baggage.
05:24I figure you got everything I need here.
05:27But I'm scared I might get a little closer,
05:28so I've brung my three brothers along.
05:31Come along, little doggy.
05:32Come along!
05:33Well, well, we'll, well.
05:34I'll find you, Joe.
05:35Why'd you have time here?
05:36How'd you have time here?
05:37How you doing?
05:38Well, I'll find you.
05:39Yes, sir.
05:40Well, well.
05:41Well, well, well.
05:42How do you have time here?
05:43Yes.
05:44Well, we'll find you, Joe.
05:45I'll find you.
05:47Well, I'll find you.
05:48Well, well, well, well.
05:49Just a minute.
05:50Just a minute, just a minute, where y'all launching off to?
05:55What is this, a quartet?
05:57Yes, or nothing else but it. How about it, boys?
06:00On an uptown avenue, where the welcome on the mass?
06:04You find this for you, when you hang your hat in Harlem, blessin'.
06:09That's a good thing, sort of man, white seal around the cat.
06:13You get to eat the chair, when you hang your hat in Harlem, blessin'.
06:19Then the southern cooking, start you looking, toward the dining room.
06:24Oh, what a sweet perfume, da da da da, that makes you feel as old.
06:29You're a real aristocrat, you make the hate of gold, when you hang your hat in Harlem, blessin'.
06:37Da da da da, da da da da, da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da bop de bop de bop de.
06:42That's a good thing, if you hang your hat in Harlem, blessin'.
06:46You both need to cheer
06:53When you hang your hat in Harlem Flex
06:55Sirens
07:04You got to hate to go
07:11When you hang your hat in Harlem Flex
07:13Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Pack.
07:19Doctor Nathan, where do you think y'all going?
07:21I'd like to know where my room is.
07:23Oh, you would, would you?
07:25Yeah, and I want a room of the southern exposure.
07:28And, cousin Ethel, if you don't mind, the doctor says I got to have quiet.
07:32And I'd like to have my breakfast in bed.
07:35Guess what did y'all boys do for a living before you come here?
07:38We was traveling men.
07:40Traveling men?
07:41Yes.
07:41I'm tired of working and slaving for a bunch of good-for-nothing tramps like y'all is.
07:46Saying which, I hereby hand in my designation.
07:49From now on, somebody else around here has got to go to work.
08:11Arkeys never dream. They must laugh and sing all day.
08:28Can't forget your troubles when you're thinking what they are.
08:35You can't find the sunshine when you're reaching for a star.
08:43Arkeys never dream. Wouldn't help to live that way.
08:56We must walk a weary road that never seems to turn.
09:02What good would it do to yearn?
09:11Arkeys never cry.
09:15Who would ever hear our sad lament?
09:21Live to laugh to die. That's the way we've learned to be content.
09:36Arkeys never dream.
09:41We know what we have to pay.
09:48With a one-way passage only Gabriel will redeem.
09:55On that judgment day.
10:04When we crossed that Jordan stream.
10:12That's why we are dream.
10:13That's why we are dream.
10:17Never dream.
10:22Dear nieces and nephews, I have made millions, coming up to visit you and want you all to
10:48help me stand some of my doors.
11:07Who is it?
11:09It's me, Swami Rivers, the mind reader.
11:14Well, what's on your mind, Swami?
11:17I have been commuting with the spirits, Miss Peabody.
11:20And from certain rumors and designations, I've got some mighty fine news for you.
11:26Oh, sounds like it's going to cost me something.
11:28Oh, now, Miss Peabody, you know I don't care nothing about money.
11:32I was ethereal, immaterial, and inconsequential.
11:37But if you insist, I'll take two hits.
11:40I knew there was a catch in it.
11:42All right.
11:43Now, come on upstairs with me, because the spirits don't never come down to the basement.
11:49Now, how do you want this good news sprung on you?
11:53By the reading of your palm, or the bump on your head?
11:56Or does you just want to be psycho-annihilated?
11:59Let your conscience be your guide.
12:00Just tell me.
12:01Shhh.
12:02Concentrate.
12:03I see something distant.
12:04Don't tell me it's another relation.
12:05It's getting close.
12:06Now I know it's another relation.
12:08Now, it's getting closer and closer.
12:09And it's a rich one.
12:10Who is it?
12:11Who is it?
12:12Shhh.
12:13Shut your eyes and concentrate.
12:14Has you got an uncle named Frisbee?
12:15Yeah.
12:16Yes.
12:17Samson's uncle frisbee.
12:18That's what's missing.
12:19I've seen that.
12:20It's a rich one.
12:21I've seen a rich one.
12:22It's a rich one.
12:23Who is it?
12:24Who is it?
12:25Shhh.
12:26Shut your eyes and concentrate.
12:27Has you got an uncle named Frisbee?
12:28Frisbee?
12:29Yeah.
12:30Yes.
12:31Samson's Uncle Frisbee.
12:32Oh, look.
12:33What's wrong with you?
12:34I have to tell you about.
12:35I have to tell you about that.
12:36That's what you're doing.
12:37Samson's Uncle Frisier, what about him?
12:39Well, he's a millionaire.
12:41And he doesn't signify to me that he's arriving tonight.
12:44He's coming to spend...
12:46Spend what?
12:47Well, he's gonna spend some time with you.
12:49Oh, I thought so.
12:53What's that?
12:57What is it?
12:58I don't know, Miss Peabody.
13:00You don't know?
13:01Let me in my spirits.
13:02Ethel, Ethel.
13:04Oh.
13:05Oh, it's you, is it?
13:07Come on, honey.
13:08We is rich.
13:09I just got this postal card from Uncle Frisier,
13:11and he's due to arrive here tonight.
13:14Swarmy, you sure is a mind reader.
13:16I sure is.
13:18Come on, baby.
13:19Get busy.
13:20We've got to give that millionaire uncle a great reception
13:22if he wants any part of his door.
13:24Come on, let's go.
13:28Swarmy, you is a man.
13:31Swarmy, you got a shining jewel.
13:34It gives you lucky price.
13:35Use a bottle of frisks.
13:36Clean your best stuff.
13:37Combin' in carlin' tonight.
13:38Be sure to wear a collar.
13:39Uh-huh.
13:40No matter if it's nice.
13:41Uh-huh.
13:42Don't forget to wear billiard teeth in your hair.
13:43Combin' in carlin' tonight.
13:44Be sure to wear a collar.
13:45Uh-huh.
13:46No matter if it's nice.
13:47Uh-huh.
13:48Don't forget to wear billiard teeth in your hair.
13:49Combin' in carlin' tonight.
13:50You can hold your chest up when you're dressed up in style.
13:51And when your suit is pressed up, you're dressing at your smile.
13:52And you sit at your table, and you're dressing at your table.
13:53Forget your appetite.
13:54And if you want a drink, get it out of the seat.
13:56Combin' in carlin' tonight.
13:58You can hold your chest up when you're dressed up in style.
14:03And when your suit is pressed up, you're dressing at your smile.
14:10And you sit at your table, forget your appetite.
14:16And if you want a drink, get it out of the seat.
14:21Combin' in carlin' tonight.
14:23Combin' in carlin' tonight.
14:24I'm dead.
14:25Combin' in carlin' tonight.
14:31Well, Mr. Prisby, here you are.
14:33You feel all right now, don't you?
14:35Oh, yes, sir.
14:36Just the same as you are.
14:37Yeah, but you ain't gonna take things that don't belong to you like you used to do.
14:40No, brother.
14:41I am all killed with that.
14:43Now, Mr. Prisby, if you'll just sign this release paper here.
14:46Why, certainly.
14:47Why, certainly.
14:51Good day, gentlemen.
14:55Nice guy, that Prisby.
14:57He's harmless.
14:58The only fault with him was he used to think he was Emperor Jones.
15:03You'd better get him back.
15:05Out of there, folks.
15:06Welcome, Mr. Pris.
15:07What's that?
15:08Hello, Mr. Pris.
15:09Not so loud.
15:10They're after me.
15:11Who that is?
15:12The army.
15:13You see, they think that I'm Emperor Jones.
15:14Ah, but I fool them.
15:15You know who I am?
15:16Who I am?
15:17Who I am?
15:18I am the Emperor Jones.
15:19Wait a minute.
15:20Wait a minute.
15:21Wait a minute.
15:22Wait a minute.
15:23I don't get this.
15:24Don't tag me now.
15:25You'll tag me later.
15:26Well, folks, I've had a hard day at the office, and I was ready to eat.
15:45Won't you join me?
15:47I had a hard day at the office and I was ready to eat.
15:50Won't you join me?
15:51Come on, folks.
15:59Say, I've been in here two days and haven't seen a waiter yet.
16:02If I don't hurry up and get some service, I'll call the manager.
16:09Say, that Uncle Frisbee of yours is either nuts or he's just testing us before he gives us some of that money.
16:15He wants left to you.
16:17I'll get it.
16:19What can I do for you, Uncle Frisbee?
16:21Don't get so familiar, young man.
16:23I will have you fired.
16:25Yes, sir.
16:26Yes, sir.
16:27Now get this order straight.
16:29I want four turtle eggs.
16:31File nine minutes on one side and three on the turtle.
16:39We all chipped in and bought you a nice fat chicken to surprise you.
16:43I'll bring it in right now.
16:47Listen, Bill.
16:48What's the matter?
16:49There's something awful funny going on around here.
16:52A minute ago, I had my watch and now it's gone.
16:56What are you looking at me for?
16:58Hold on.
16:59Wait a minute, dear.
17:00Somebody took mine, too.
17:02Yours, too?
17:03It is, Dad.
17:04I sure hope you liked this chicken Uncle Frisbee.
17:09It cost two bucks.
17:10I'll take delay.
17:12I'll take any part I can get.
17:18It's gone.
17:19What are we going to do?
17:20It's gone.
17:21It's gone.
17:22It's gone.
17:26There's somebody's got my suspenders.
17:29Everything is going around here.
17:32What are we going to do about it?
17:33We'll call Swarmy.
17:34He'll tell us where that chicken went.
17:36Let's call Swarmy.
17:37Come here.
17:38I don't want anywhere there.
17:40This is going to be easy.
17:42You all just let me look in my crystal ball,
17:44and I'll tell you who stole it.
17:50Good Lord Almighty, I done lost the crystal ball.
17:52No.
17:53Yeah.
17:54Can you imagine that?
17:56But surely you that knows all and sees all
17:59don't know where the crystal ball is?
18:01Well, how am I going to tell you where the crystal ball is
18:03if I ain't got no ball to tell me where it is?
18:06Wait a minute.
18:08My friend.
18:13Wait a minute.
18:14Took me.
18:15Let's open.
18:19Just a second.
18:20Somebody turn out the lights!
18:27I can see St Peter standing by the rock...
18:30By the rock!
18:31I can see St Peter standing by the rock...
18:33By the rock!
18:35Better take your sins and put them all in the house Bd можно call me
18:37Even though st Peter says there's notoh
18:38I can't see St Peter standing by the rocks
18:39and put them all in heart.
18:42I can meet St. Peter standing by the ground.
18:46Bow down, bow down, hallelujah.
18:51Bow down, bow down.
18:55I'm calling him to come and help his love.
18:59I can meet St. Peter standing by the ground.
19:03Bow down, bow down, hallelujah.
19:08Bow down, bow down, bow down.