The Jitters (1938)
8/10
Leon's Just A Jitterbug
5 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Leon Errol's upset when wife Vivian Tobin is out all night winning loving cups at dancing contests. The gossip's getting in to the newspapers. When she tells him she's going to be out tonight, too, and he should go to a restaurant and get a good meal, he drinks it. Smashed, he goes to the dancing academy, where a bevy of beauties mistakes his drunken near-paralysis for the latest and greatest dance craze.

It's one of Errol's best short subject, based on his "rubber legs" stage act. He mumbles, he utters malapropisms, he crawls around with a broken cigarette in his mouth, and so do the chorines.

Errol was born in 1881 in New South Wales. He eventually took his act to America, where he was a smash in the Ziegfeld Follies, and entered the movies in 1920. By the time of sound he was a star supporting comedian in features, but he flourished in short subjects. His RKO series ran from 1933 through his death in 1951.
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