Art in the Raw

When Edgar Kennedy wins $3 in a drawing competition, he wants to spend time in the country, painting trees and birds and such. Wife Florence Lake, mother-in-law Dot Farley, and brother-in-law William Eugene, decide that Greenwich Village is the place for him to paint masterpieces. It soon turns out that a horde of freeloaders show up, so Edgar is locked in a room to paint a picture of an apple by himself, with only a dog to howl, freeloaders to steal his milk and provide him with lit dynamite, and of course, a party going on outside to shake the floorboards.

It's a typical Kennedy short in his long-running 'The Common Man' series from RKO. It ran from 1933 through his death in 1948. Although there were other combination, Miss Lake was his most frequent spouse in the movie, supported by Miss Farley and his mother-in-law and Jack Rice as his layabout brother-in-law