The extremely diminutive Daphne Pollard stars in this film. While very, very few would recognize her today, she made quite a few silent and sound comedies. She was the sister of the slightly more famous Snub Pollard--both born in Australia but who moved to the States to make movies.
In addition to Pollard, Edgar Kennedy and Arthur Housman star in "Help Wanted, Female". Kennedy was one of the most popular supporting actors in comedy shorts of his era. Housman was famous for playing drunks, though in a few Kennedy shorts he played the characters straight--and had very little charisma in such roles.
This film finds Kennedy and Housman playing burglars. When they go to a doctor's house to rob him, Pollard and her brat of a son arrive for an exam. Kennedy pretends to be the doctor--at which point he and Pollard begin wrestling--and there is absolutely no point to this...none. Instead of real comedy, they literally rolled around on the floor together. Eventually she learns that Kennedy is a burglar (after they've been rolling about for a LONG time) and she apprehends him. Once the real doctor has been found, she's hired as his cook and this leads the final scene--the only real funny one in the film.
Overall, this is a comedy that is clearly not among the better ones of the era. While parts are decent, mostly it's unfunny and easy to forget. I guess this is what happens when three supporting characters are thrown into the leads AND you don't give them much of a script.
