The Old Fashioned Way

The Old Fashioned Way
July 13, 1934
Paramount
Comedy, Historical
DVD
C+

This as slow as You're Telling Me!, but it does have the bonus of Jan Duggan as song-butcher Cleopatra Pepperday.  Luckily, she would return in later Fields movies.  So would Florence Lawrence, who three decades earlier was the first movie actress to have her name used in promotion.  Tammany Young, who was the unfunny caddy in You're Telling Me!, plays Fields's assistant Gump.  Nora Cecil, who had a small role in YTM, has more to do here as the boarding-house mistress, Mrs. Wendelschaffer.  Dorothy Bay, Del Henderson, James B. "Pop" Kenton, Edward LeSaint (again playing a train conductor), and Robert McKenzie also return.  Furthermore, Davison Clark, who was the second Minister of Finance in Duck Soup, is the train passenger whose lost ticket Fields uses.

The title this time seems to refer to the setting ca. 1900, with everyone excited when a "horseless carriage" drives by.  It's probably a pun as well, since "old fashioned" is a drink.

Ignore the hyphen in the title on the poster.