Oh! Winnie Behave

Oh! Winnie Behave is a frantic, episodic translation of Martin Branner’s iconic comic strip, Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner. The film captures the daily friction of a young woman navigating the early 20th-century urban grind while tethered to a household of eccentric, often incompetent men. Winnie, played with a sharp, kinetic edge by Ethelyn Gibson, serves as the stable center in a storm of domestic and professional slapstick. The plot functions less as a singular narrative and more as a series of escalating social collisions, where Winnie’s attempts to maintain dignity are constantly undermined by the buffoonery of characters like Albert Schaefer and Ray Erlenborn. It is a portrait of the 'New Woman' of the 1920s, forced to be both the financial engine and the moral compass of a world that refuses to let her simply be.