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When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
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Leon Errol's father-in-law makes trouble.
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A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
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The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.
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Edgar Kennedy's hunting trip with his single buddies is kiboshed when his wife, Vivien, has made other arrangements for their vacation time. One of Edgar's friends thinks he has a way for Edgar to go hunting with them. He should pretend to join the National Guard, who are holding a two week camp. In reality, Edgar will have only rented a uniform to convince Vivien that he has joined. Two things may threaten Edgar's plan. First, Vivien, regardless of if she trusts her husband or not, may want to see him off at the train station, which would force him onto the train going to the guard camp. And second, if he can fool Vivien that he is joining the National Guard, he may have also convinced the National Guard that he has joined for real. But in carrying out his plan, Edgar may get into even bigger trouble.
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Women are put in charge of the city government for a day, and the mayor must go to the train station to greet an opera singer.
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A concert film
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The setting is a radio broadcast with the bands of Leith Stevens and Bobby Hackett, the vocals by Nan Wynn and a speciality bit by Leslie Lieber playing a toy whistle. Future-and-long-time-voice of the New York Yankees baseball team, Mel Allen (as Melvin Allen), served as the announcer.
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Part of the Melody Masters series (1938-1939 season) #11 where Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra does their comedy and music bits.
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In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete list of songs, check the soundtrack listing.
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A man desiring to join the Grouch Club describes the terrible experience of trying to check out a book from a public library.
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Larry Clinton & His Orchestra and two guest vocalists perform several songs popularized by Clinton and his group.
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Leith Stevens leads his orchestra in a nice assortment of standards in a variety of musical styles, including Dixieland and swing. Mr. Stevens was a popular orchestra leader of the era who later became a musical director for an assortment of television shows and his facility with more than one style of music, so important for his later career, is much in evidence here.
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A musical short subject in which band leader Freddie Rich conducts three musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn with the Three Symphonettes. In the midst of the radio broadcast on which the band is performing, a gangly guitarist named Joe Sodja interrupts and asks to perform.
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Hades is cooling off, so the Devil imports Leon Navara and his Orchestra to put on some heat using their music instruments. Navara does some piano solos, while the dance team of Honey & Weldon heat things up also. A Vitaphone "Melody Master" short.
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Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy travel to Mexico and enrage a jealous boyfriend.
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Orphanage manager Dr. Bergen tries to get a rich woman to adopt Charlie McCarthy.
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Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
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Joe Palooka and the gang travel to Paris for a boxing match against the French champion. When Anne is assaulted by a masher, Joe searches the streets for the hooligan, distracting him from his preparation for his powerful opponent.
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The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill. Of course, the diner owner turns out to be their watch customer, and the boys make a hasty exit with the manager's waitress girlfriend in tow. Knobby books Palooka into a local vaudeville house to put on some exhibition bouts. Of course, their friend from the diner is in the audience, with a bag of rotten tomatoes, and he's more than willing to come on stage when Knobby asks for a volunteer to box with Joe.
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In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.
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Joe Palooka and Strangler Chokeovitch have set up training camps on adjacent beachfront sites. When Joe knocks out the Strangler after a misunderstanding, Chokeovitch's manager challenges the champ to a professional wrestling bout, with the winner taking all the gate receipts.
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Before the big fight, Joe and his opponent come to blows at their hotel. Palooka knocks him out and the fight has to be postponed.
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Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka (Robert Norton) and his manager/trainer Knobby Walsh (Shemp Howard), are eating a poor farmer out of house and holdings while Joe prepares for a championship bout at Madison Square Garden. The farmer sends the local sheriff to collect from Knobby.
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Johnny's freeloading brother Henry will go to any length to bet on a tip at Belmont, including stealing from Junior's piggy bank. When Johnny's mother-in-law tells them to take Junior to the dentist to have a tooth pulled, and gives them $2 for the doctor, the game is afoot. The money goes to Henry's bookie, and the boys decide to pull Junior's tooth themselves... by tying a string onto the back bumper of a car. But a pet parrot spills the beans, and mother-in-law goes chasing after them with fire in her eye, and a fireplace poker under her coat.
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This early comedy short has Bob Hope and John Berkes putting on sailor uniforms to find dates, getting mistaken for real sailors and being dragged back to a Navy ship by the shore patrol. Though not much plot, the short does give each star a chance to shine doing comedy bits both together and separately.
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Boxer Joe Palooka steps into the ring after a friend's dog gets kicked.
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A former art student returns from Europe to run the department store he inherited from his father and finds his employees behaving very bizarrely.
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Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.
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An expert on Russian art apparently doesn't know as much about it as he thinks he does.
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An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband does not want her photographed.
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Gus Doakes joins the National Guard; hilarity ensues.
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The Dean and Board of Flunk Well College are arguing with its football coach, Bergen, about the team's star player, Charlie McCarthy, who is the only reason the team is a winning one, but who isn't doing well academically and could be pulled from the team if his grades and behavior don't improve. In other words, Charlie is a dummy in more ways than one. Beyond other problems Coach Bergen has with Charlie concerning the coach's girlfriend Joan, Coach Bergen has to get Charlie prepared to pass an exam administered by the Dean. Instead of cheating like he usually does, Charlie has his own way of dealing with the exam.
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Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-law.
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Prankster Bob is traveling to New York by ship with his girlfriend and he proposes to marry her. Along the trip, he plays pranks on the captain, passengers and his future father-in-law. When they arrive in the harbor, the captain and his father-in-law decide to revenge and the captain asks his men to retain Bob at the customs for hours. Then he heads to the office of his father-in-law where his girlfriend is waiting for him. But her father is still upset with Bob. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood. Like the servers before him, he's not only unsuccessful, but beat up for his efforts. Pete's only weakness is women, so Johnny switches clothes with girlfriend Helen, and goes after Pete in drag.
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Professor Cicero Pu and his dummy Charlie take a trip in the "Spirit of Ammonia" hot air balloon to the stratosphere. After the balloon goes out of control, they land in an unexpected place.
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Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
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Bob Hope wants to marry the mayor's daughter, but the mayor doesn't want his daughter to marry Bob Hope.
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After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him.
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Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
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A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish downstairs neighbors (Shemp Howard and Ruth Gillette). A pleasant getaway turns into a nightmare thanks to the antics of Junior, an uncooperative tent, a lazy and oblivious Henry, and a skunk.
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A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
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Ollie regentan un salón de peluquería. Mientras esperan que aparezca algún cliente, Stan descubre el anuncio de una rica viuda que busca marido joven. Ambos se retan mutuamente a conquistar el corazón de la misteriosa señora. Hardy hace trampa enviando sólo su carta y resulta ser el candidato elegido. Pronto descubrirá que la viuda es peligrosa y que lo ha elegido únicamente por su nombre... ¡para llevar a cabo una terrible venganza!
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Stan y Ollie son deshollinadores que trabajan en la casa del científico loco Profesor Noodle.
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Stan y Ollie trabajan en un aserradero. Pero debido a su incompetencia deben acabar huyendo del iracundo capataz.
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Stanley y Oliver son dos polícias novatos y despistados a los que tratan de robar la rueda de recambio de su coche patrulla estando ellos dentro, comiendo. Más tarde, no logran tomar los datos de un atraco y tratan de llamar a la centralita desde el teléfono de una joyería, sin darse cuenta de que en ella se está cometiendo un robo...
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Mientras Laurel y Hardy luchan en el frente durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un buen amigo suyo resulta gravemente herido y, antes de morir, les pide que busquen a su hija y la lleven a casa de sus abuelos; pero la misión resultará más difícil de lo previsto. En su segundo largometraje, Laurel y Hardy se propusieron suavizar con unas pinceladas de humor un asunto tan serio como la guerra.
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Ya que en la cárcel no cabe ni un preso más, el juez ordena a los vagabundos Stan y Ollie que abandonen la ciudad antes de una hora. Una vez en la calle y bajo la lluvia, los chicos ayudan a un borracho a recuperar las llaves de su coche. Éste, agradecido, los llevará de vuelta a casa, ¡pero a la casa equivocada!
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Ya que en la cárcel no cabe ni un preso más, el juez ordena a los vagabundos Stan y Ollie que abandonen la ciudad antes de una hora. Una vez en la calle y bajo la lluvia, los chicos ayudan a un borracho a recuperar las llaves de su coche. Éste, agradecido, los llevará de vuelta a casa, ¡pero a la casa equivocada!
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Two aspiring songwriters have a weird nightmare about the jungle.
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College baseball player Mickey Daniels can't keep his mind on the game when he's got an eye for the ladies.
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In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
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When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.
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Stan y Ollie tratan de vender un arbol de Navidad a un cliente gruñon.Un malentendido provoca que se origine una colosal batalla en la que Stan y Ollie destruyen la casa del cliente y este a su vez el coche de los dos.
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Oliver heredará una gran fortuna de su rico tío Bernal, con la condición de que esté felizmente casado. Pero cuando la Sra. Hardy se va justo antes de que el tío Bernal venga de visita, Stanley se ve obligado a cumplir su deber (y arrastrarse) para hacerse pasar por la amada esposa de Oliver.
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Los mozos de cuadra Stan y Ollie cuidan un pura sangre llamado "Blue Boy". Pero cuando escuchan a dos hombres hablar sobre una recompensa de $ 5000 por la devolución del "Blue Boy" robado, se pierden la parte de que es la pintura, no el caballo. Llevan el caballo a la casa del dueño para reclamar la recompensa. El propietario les indica que pongan "Blue Boy" en el piano y Ollie explica que "estos millonarios son peculiares".
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Oliver hereda una fortuna y contrata a Stan como su mayordomo y procede a atormentarlo. Stan finalmente se rebela y se enfurece, destruyendo los elegantes muebles de Oliver.
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Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.
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