Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Acting
Buster Keaton's silent-film physicality in a talkie—an alien visiting from a better medium.
Costume
Daisy Mae's exaggerated hillbilly drag that launched a thousand Halloween misfires.
Director
Albert S. Rogell
Jeff York
Li'l Abner Yokum
Martha O'Driscoll
Daisy Mae Scraggs
Mona Ray
Pansy 'Mammy' Yokum
Buster Keaton
Lonesome Polecat
Billie Seward
Cousin Delightful
Kay Sutton
Wendy Wilecat
Maude Eburne
Granny Scraggs
Edgar Kennedy
Cornelius Cornpone
Charles A. Post
Earthquake McGoon
Bud Jamison
Hairless Joe
Dick Elliott
Marryin' Sam
Johnny Arthur
Montague
Walter Catlett
Barber
Lucien Littlefield
The Sheriff / Mr. Oldtimer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Sadie Hawkins tradition—women proposing to men—was invented by this comic strip in 1937 and became genuine American folk practice.
This was Buster Keaton's first feature after MGM destroyed his career; he took the demeaning role because he was broke and desperate.
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