Sweet Cheat

I've seen quite a few of the Leon Errol/Dorothy Granger shorts and one thing has become obvious....most of these pictures are pretty much alike. In nearly all of them, Dorothy is jealous and thinks Leon is cheating on her....and Leon is often up to no good and so the wife is jealous. To do this for a couple shorts would have worked fine, though with "Sweet Cheat" the formula has once again reared its ugly (and familiar) head.

Leon often has to go to Buffalo on business....and his wife assumes this is because he's cheating on her. When she goes to a lawyer and demands a divorce, the lawyer naturally tells her that her husband's trips in and of themselves are NOT evidence of infidelity. So, Dorothy has decided to trap him during one of these trips. To do so, she wears a heavy black veil and talks like a broad impression of a Southern accent. And, as Ms. Granger wasn't an actress with much range, she says 'honey child' in every other sentence and sounds utterly ridiculous. In fact, this shtick was so bad it really took a mediocre plot and lowered it significantly. Familiar yet grating at the same time!