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So's Your Aunt Emma! is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Jean Yarbrough released in USA on 17 april 1942 with Zasu Pitts
So's Your Aunt Emma! (1942)
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Add to a movie listSo's Your Aunt Emma is a 1942 American film directed by Jean Yarbrough. The film is also known as Meet the Mob.
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Emma Bates is an old spinster living with her equally unmarried sisters. One day she decides to go to New York City to see a fight where a young man Mickey O'Banion is one of the boxers. Emma's sisters are appalled by this decision, unaware that Mickey is the son of a man Emma was once involved with years ago.Actors
Zasu Pitts
(Aunt Emma Bates)
Roger Pryor
(Terry Connors)
Roger Pryor
(Terry Connors, Globe-Register Reporter)
Warren Hymer
(Joe Gormley)
Douglas Fowley
(Gus Hammond)
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