Status: Released
Released Date: 1939-11-17
Runtime: 64 mins
Director: Otto Brower
Writer: Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, Stanley Rauh
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy
Original title: Too Busy to Work
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Jed Prouty
Spring Byington
Kenneth Howell
Florence Roberts
George Ernest
June Carlson
Billy Mahan
Joan Davis
Chick Chandler
Marjorie Gateson
Andrew Tombes
Marvin Stephens
Irving Bacon
Helen Ericson
Jones Family
Every Saturday Night
1936-03-13
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through
Educating Father
1936-05-23
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becomi
Back to Nature
1936-08-14
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with
Off to the Races
1937-02-05
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps
Big Business
1937-06-18
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil
Hot Water
1937-09-24
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous new
Borrowing Trouble
1937-12-10
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l
Love on a Budget
1938-03-04
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending
A Trip to Paris
1938-05-06
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jone
Safety in Numbers
1938-05-30
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral d
Down on the Farm
1938-10-11
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Everybody's Baby
1939-03-24
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture o
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939-06-02
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a stud
Quick Millions
1939-08-25
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at
Too Busy to Work
1939-11-17
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run
Young as You Feel
1940-02-16
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life.
On Their Own
1940-05-17
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business