Leslie Brooks and Jeff Donnell, en route to a picnic lunch, experience mechanical difficulties with their tandem. The two actresses appeared together in Columbia Pictures’ 1944   mystery comedy Nine Girls. Donnell, nee Jean Marie, took her name from her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. She appeared in well over 100 films and TV shows. Photo: Avery.

Here’s the snipe: “TIRED TROUBLE…. Leslie Brooks and Jeff Donnell, both actresses at Columbia Studios, look as if they’d wished they’d stayed home instead of trying to pump their bicycle to the park for a picnic. The two tired girls are shown here during one of their many rest periods.”