Little Giant
Comedy
They're Selling Vacuum Cleaners!
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
1946-02-22
en
Cast
Director
William A. Seiter
Bud Abbott as Eddie L. Morrison / T.S. Chandler
Lou Costello as Benny Miller
Jacqueline deWit as Hazel Temple Morrison
Brenda Joyce as Miss Ruby Burke
George Cleveland as Clarence Goodring
Elena Verdugo as Martha Hill
Mary Gordon as Ma Miller
Pierre Watkin as P.S. Van Loon
Donald MacBride as The conductor
Victor Kilian as Gus Anderson (salesman)
George Chandler as O'Brien (salesman)
Joe Kirk as Salesman
Beatrice Gray as Miss King
Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Hendrickson
Lane Chandler as Lost Motorist (uncredited)
Dorothy Christy as Jim's wife (uncredited)
Chester Conklin as Hotel Valet (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn as Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited)
Edward Gargan as Policeman (uncredited)
George Holmes as Hercules - Male Model (uncredited)
Donald Kerr as Salesman (uncredited)
Florence Lake as Housewife (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold as Information Receptionist (uncredited)
Ralph Peters as Jim (uncredited)
Bert Roach as Joe (bartender) (uncredited)
Milburn Stone as Prof. Watkins (uncredited) (voice)