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The Good Bad Egg

The Good Bad Egg

7.0 (1) ·1947 ·17 min ·Movie
Comedy

In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.

Top Cast

Joe DeRita
Joe DeRita
Joe Priggle
Dorothy Granger
Dorothy Granger
Florobelle Priggle
Norman Ollestad
Rudolph (as Norman Olestead)
Symona Boniface
Symona Boniface
Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
Bobby Burns
Bobby Burns
Minister (uncredited)
Lew Davis
Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Vernon Dent
Rest Home Manager (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Frank Mills
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
James C. Morton
James C. Morton
Horseshoe Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor
Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)

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