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Buster West plays a young man who wants to marry a lady. But there's a problem...her father is a complete grouch! So the plan is to invite her and her father to dinner. And, after feeding him a great dinner, he'll be more likely to give his approval. But there are some problems. First, Buster gets his friend (Tom Patricola) to pose as his butler AND relies on this guy to cook the meal.
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The Big Apple with the Arthur Murray Shag Dancers!
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Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.
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Amusing 1937 musical short film produced by the weirdly-named "Educational Films Corporation of America".
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oe Cook (Joe Cook)is a gymnasium owner and boxing promoter who is working to build up prizefighter George the Greek (George Givot)as the next Great White Hope that will defeat world-heavyweight-champion Joe Louis (who, obviously, isn't in the film). But Joe also has problems with a finance company and an indictment for income-tax evasion.
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In Harlem, Bud Peagler's "Barbecue Lunch and Poolroom" (the home of Brunswick Stew), also serves as the meeting place and hangout for many citizens and organizations such as 'The Sons and Daughters of The I Will Arise Society," and also Mosby's Blues Blowers. It is also where Roscoe Driggers hangs out. Roscoe claims to be the world's champion cornet player, although he can't play a note, even a sour one. But when the chance to earn $500 for playing his cornet at the big concert held by the "Over the River Burying Society" arises, Roscoe signs up. Roscoe needs $500 in order to buy a beauty shop for his manicurist-fiancée, Zenia Sprowl. Roscoe makes plans for his buddy Sam Ginn, who can play a cornet, to hide under the stage and play while Roscoe fakes it on the stage. But Sam gets taken out by some dudes who have a bone to pick with Roscoe. No sweat, though, as another of Roscoe's musician friends, Willie Trout, sees this and takes Sam's place under the stage....with his saxophone.
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Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots' 100 Essential Film Comedies
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Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
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An auto dealer arrives in a western town, at about the same time as a band of heavily-armed desperadoes.
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Susie is forced to dress as a little girl by her mother and sister to make her less attractive to a man her sister hopes to woo. Susie, however, is determined to get her man.
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Let Me Explain is a silent comedy short.
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Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."
