Life with Henry (1941) DVD-R

Starring Jackie Cooper, Leila Ernst, Eddie Bracken, Fred Niblo, Hedda Hopper, Rod Cameron
Directed by Theodore Reed

Print: black/white
Runtime: 80 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of
the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio series, inspired the studio to launch an "Aldrich" series of its
own. The inagural entry was Life with Henry, with Jackie Cooper repeating his role as
befuddled teenager Henry Aldrich. This time around, Henry and his pal Dizzy (Eddie Bracken)
conspire to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Alaska. The boys' bumbling efforts have
unfortunate long-range repercussions, culminating in the decision by a group of investors
not to build a factory in town, as originally planned. How will Henry get himself out of this
one? For the record, in all subsequent "Henry Aldrich" endeavors, Henry would be played by
Jimmy Lydon, while Dizzy would be enacted by Charles Smith.