Word: fetchit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl with whom he is in love. The ensuing contest results in a break-up of the love affair, leaving the audience in suspense as to the outcome. But in the end the difficulty is patched up in an unexpected but delightful manner. The antics of Stepin Fetchit add considerably to the humor of the picture throughout...
...likely to prove valuable at the boxoffice. A delicate and sympathetic, if somewhat disingenuous, reflection of the funny side of the Depression, it rates high in the scale of recreation-ground cinema, well above Central Park, a small notch below Zoo in Budapest. Good shot: a zoo attendant (Stepin Fetchit) advertising to the furniture dealer the excellence of the meat he feeds the lions...
...double-feature bills, week-end matinees for children. On the chance that Legion of Decency approval will give them a new impetus, RKO took special pains with this one. Its story is by Zane Grey. Its cast includes Richard Dix, Martha Sleeper, Louise Beavers and an imitator of Stepin Fetchit who uses a preposterous pseudonym, "Sleep...
...final courtroom scene, after expectorating an ample supply of tobacco juice loudly and accurately into a spittoon, describing how he contrived to hook the stream around a table leg to reach its mark.* The sot is one of the minor characters who, together with shambling, inarticulate Stepin Fetchit (TIME, March 12), supply most of the comedy relief...
...adults may be pleased with the demure wrigglings of four-year-old Shirley Temple. Among other features of Stand Up and Cheer are two U. S. Senators (Mitchell and Durante) who proceed from an argument about the tariff to a slapstick vaudeville tumbling act; a scene in which Stepin Fetchit goes wading in a goldfish bowl hoping to catch a haddock; a pleasing song called "Baby Take...