"Ma's Pride and Joy" is a short from Mack Sennett that has NOT aged well. Apparently back in the day, Donald Novis was popular on radio, Broadway and made a few films. But today, you'll likely find his very, very high-pitched singing antiquated and even a bit painful to hear!
There isn't a ton of plot to this one. An obnoxious movie star is playing hard to get with the executives of some movie studio. Suddenly, a much more obnoxious woman barges into the office and insists the executives listen to her son sing. For some insane reason, they agree...and Novis 'sings' (if you can call it that)...leaving the obnoxious actor without a contract.
There just isn't a lot of plot to this one. Combining that with the singing, it's simply a difficult to like little film.
