
Meet the Missus
Comedy
Overview
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
Top Cast


Roscoe Karns
Roscoe Karns
Joe Higgins
Roscoe Karns
Joe Higgins


Ruth Donnelly
Ruth Donnelly
Lil Higgins
Ruth Donnelly
Lil Higgins


Spencer Charters
Spencer Charters
Grandpa
Spencer Charters
Grandpa


George Ernest
George Ernest
Sidney Higgins
George Ernest
Sidney Higgins


Lois Ranson
Lois Ranson
Betty Higgins
Lois Ranson
Betty Higgins


Polly Moran
Polly Moran
Widow Ella Jones
Polly Moran
Widow Ella Jones


Astrid Allwyn
Astrid Allwyn
Violet Stevens
Astrid Allwyn
Violet Stevens


Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd
John Williams
Alan Ladd
John Williams


Harry Woods
Harry Woods
Elmer Shillingford
Harry Woods
Elmer Shillingford


Dorothy Anne Seese
Dorothy Anne Seese
Millie Lou
Dorothy Anne Seese
Millie Lou
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It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.

The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.

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