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Petticoat Politics is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Erle C. Kenton released in USA on 31 january 1941 with Roscoe Karns
Petticoat Politics (1941)
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Lil Higgins become excessively worried rhat her newly retired husband Joe will die now that he has nothing to do all day. She has learned from a sales-eager insuranceman that the mortality rate is exceptionally high for inactive older men. To try to keep Joe alive, Lil wants him to make some home improvements in the kitchen.Actors
Roscoe Karns
(Joe Higgins)
Spencer Charters
(Grandpa)
Ruth Donnelly
(Lil Higgins)
George Ernest
(Sidney Higgins)
Polly Moran
(Widow Jones)
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