People Are Funny

Philip Reed and Ozzie Nelson are competing radio producers. Each has an eye on Helen Walker, writer extraordinaire, and a contract with potential advertiser Rudy Vallee. When Miss Walker encounters a small audience participation program run on a local station by Jack Haley, she wants to bring it back to Reed, but while Reed has the contract with Haley, Nelson has the contract with Vallee.

It's one of those movies with variety acts, linked by a silly plot.The Vagabonds perform several swing numbers, and the laughs are offered by the games played by various "audience" members, under the supervision of Mr. Haley, and later, by At Linkletter, the master of ceremonies on radio and later television.

It's a peculiar series of gags for a radio show, but very funny ones for a movie. It's produced by Bill Pine and Bill Thomas, Paramount;'s "Dollar Bills", who produced cheap programmers for the company that reportedly never lost money. Besides the talent already mentioned, such performers as Clara Blandick, Frances Langford and comics like Billy Bletcher and Joe DeRita make appearances.