LeRoy is perhaps best remembered for a dinner table sequence in the W.C. Fields comedy The Old Fashioned Way (1934) in which he throws a handful of custard into the comedian's face, yanks on his nose, and destroys his pocket watch by tossing it into a bowl of molasses.
By the time of It's a Gift, Fields had wearied of the youngster, who was now getting second billing in the credits.