A Miss in a Mess

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Barbara Jo Allen in A Miss in a Mess (1949)

Vera Vague marries a man who is the twin-image of an escaped ax-murderer. The key word here is "escaped", as that guarantees that Vera will get involved with the ax-murderer thinking he is h... Read allVera Vague marries a man who is the twin-image of an escaped ax-murderer. The key word here is "escaped", as that guarantees that Vera will get involved with the ax-murderer thinking he is her husband.Vera Vague marries a man who is the twin-image of an escaped ax-murderer. The key word here is "escaped", as that guarantees that Vera will get involved with the ax-murderer thinking he is her husband.

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He'll Do It With His Little Hatchet

Barbara Jo Allen -- renamed 'Vera Vague' by the mighty minds of the movie industry -- is to be married to Stephen Roberts, but her aunt, Lois Austin, shows her a newspaper showing that a serial axe murderer -- also played by Mr. Roberts. After some mild shenanigans, the axe murderer shows up and Miss Allen goes with him, thinking him her bridegroom.

It's a Jules White comedy short, which means the gags are big, loud, and faked, and the reactions are likewise. Miss Allen had been playing the Vera Vague character, which she had invented, since 1940 in the movies. Earlier she had been a radio actor, and before that a Sorbonne student born on 5th Avenue in New York.