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Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Loud American Wife
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
Candy Store Proprietor
A private eye spoof that sends up assorted TV detectives from Ironside, Columbo and Kojak to Baretta, McCloud and Starsky and Hutch, as eight bumbling super-sleuths band together in a battle of wits against the devilishly clever Master Criminal.
Bus Passenger
Домохозяйка Эллен Эндрюс и ее дочь-подросток Аннабель никак не могут найти общий язык друг с другом, из-за чего постоянно ссорятся. Однажды в четверг, они загадывают одинаковое желание – оказаться на месте друг друга, которое исполнятся на следующий день, в пятницу.
Housewife
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.
Poker Polly
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
Mavis
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
Carhop
Вот машина — но она необычная. Вместе с автомобилем, у которого есть свой собственный разум, мы проследим его историю, начиная с витрины магазина и до гоночной трассы, на которой произойдёт много приключений.
Waitress
Феликса Ангера выставила из дома жена. Бедняга думал покончить жизнь самоубийством, но пришел в дом холостяка Оскара Мэдисона, где по пятницам друзья всегда играли в покер. Опасаясь за друга, Оскар предложил Феликсу пожить у него, тот согласился. Дальнейшие события наглядно показывают, почему жена выгнала мужа после 12 лет совместной жизни, имея двух детей. Феликс превратил холостяцкую квартиру Оскара в музей, постоянно наводя чистоту и не разрешая сорить и наводитьбеспорядок, стал семейным тираном. Такой занудный чистюля и сварливый брюзга, что и мужская дружба не выдержала.
Tiger Lily
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
Landlady
История девушки и ее озорного кота, которые однажды попадают в странную и забавную ситуацию с участием полиции и ФБР.
Anastasia Anastasia, Actress
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Enid Garvey
Чед Гейтс увольняется из армии и возвращается на родные гавайские пляжи к друзьям и девушке. Его отец хочет, чтобы сын устроился работать в компанию, занимающуюся продажей фруктов, но Чеду больше нравится веселиться, и скучная работа ему совсем не по душе.
Brown's Blowsy Girlfriend
Во время англо-американской войны 1812 года генерал Эндрю Джексон располагает только 1200-ю солдатами для защиты Нового Орлеана от Британских кораблей, хотя знает, что британский флот в составе 60 кораблей и 16 тысяч человек вскоре прибудет, чтобы взять город. В этой ситуации особой стратегически важной зоной становится остров около города, но на беду он находится в руках последнего большого пирата Жана Лафита. Это самый известный среди флибустьеров пират, разбойник с повадками джентльмена и сердцем патриота. Его неотразимость разбила сердца всех женщин вокруг, а мужчины признавали его лидерство безоговорочно. Хотя Лафит никогда не нападает на американские суда, губернатор ненавидит его за то, что он продает товары без налогов, а граждане любят его по той же самой причине. Когда большое сражение становится неотвратимо, Лафит разрывается между двумя фронтами. Его сердце принадлежит Америке, но его люди убеждают его сотрудничать с теми, кто наверняка победит…
Klingman's Secretary
20-е годы прошлого столетия. Одаренная провинциальная певица Хелен Морган приезжает в Чикаго и попадает в руки к авантюристу Ларри Мэддоксу, который становится ее менеджером и начинает наживаться на ее таланте. Американская мечта в действии: Хелен становится звездой, за ней ухаживает преуспевающий адвокат, поклонникам ее творчества нет числа. Но у любой медали есть и оборотная сторона.
Celia
An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.
Nurse Mabel (uncredited)
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
Bubbles LaVonne (uncredited)
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
Wilma Belding
A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him.
Dolly - Cafe Waitress
An ex-Marine on the lam from a murder charge. He hitches a ride from glamor-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the woman realize the man with them may be a killer.
Hastings' Girlfriend (uncredited)
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
Woman Who Slaps Lou
Bud & Lou get jobs in Mr. Fields' Drugstore. Originally filmed as the first episode of the Abbott and Costello TV show, it was released on film and shown theatrically in certain markets.
Saloon Girl in Fight (uncredited)
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.
Lola
Эрик Августин, шпион международного масштаба, ранен при задержании и находится в больнице. Спецслужбы уговаривают «Арахиса» Уайта, актера-комика, занятого на второстепенных ролях и, как две капли воды похожего на Эрика, заменить того в важной миссии в Танжере. Теперь Уайту предстоит с миллионом долларов вылететь в Марокко, чтобы выкупить важные микрофильмы. Но за ними охотятся и другие шпионы, включая бывшую подружку Августина, очаровательную Лили Долбрэй.
Following a live orchestra opening, emcee Eddie Garr greets the audience and tells them about his trip to Los Angeles, where out-of-work actors are always 'acting' while in their service-industry jobs. What follows is a cavalcade of wild and wacky performances.
Lieutenant Adrian
A civilian, ordered to report to his draft board, slips off into a dream about the army life ahead of him. He is assigned to a remote desert post where the soldiers crave female companionship. He forges orders that brings a platoon of WACs who are forbidden to fraternize with the soldiers.
Floozy at Level Louie's Place
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Lucy Gugenheimer
Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
Buster's shenanigans running a sporting goods store and his antics in a local theatre group.
Marie (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Aggie
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
Pearl
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.
Nellie
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
Waitress
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Miss Tuttle
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Mae
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
Lulu Troy
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Julie Adams
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.
Gloria (the moll)
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers.
Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Paula
When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the money. Bob thinks the Banker was really behind the robbery and now uses the money to try and lure him into a trap.
Gloria (uncredited)
Детеныша гориллы по кличке Джо привозят в Голливуд, где он становится настоящей звездой…
Madame Mercadet
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
Blanche - Inmate of Women's Prison (uncredited)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Wanda LaFern
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan--and, of course, his #1 son--must discover the identity of the person who doped the passengers and stole the money.
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further is when Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Mrs. McKelvey
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
Pepper
Кто-то на Диком Западе продает оружие индейцам. Для того, чтобы найти преступников, правительство, в обмен на помилование, отправляет в опасное путешествие Каламити Джейн и секретного агента под прикрытием, которые должны изображать из себя мужа и жену. Когда агента убивают, Джейн приходится срочно найти себе нового «мужа» – дантиста «Безболезненного» Питера Поттера, неудачника и труса, который хочет оставить варварский запад далеко позади и вернуться на восток. Когда на караван фургонов нападают индейцы, свою меткую стрельбу Джейн приписывает Поттеру, который мгновенно становится героем в глазах горожан, прикрытием Джейн, и приманкой для индейцев и торговцев оружием
Ginger
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
Newspaper Columnist
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Rita La May
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
New Danceland Hostess (uncredited)
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
Mrs. Sindell
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
Miss Baggart
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
Bunny Wells
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
Montana Jones
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
Gwen
Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell, Iria Adrian and Robert Benchley.
Louise Rogers
The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happened.
Shirley
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
Martha
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Wilma
A star hockey player with the Wildcats is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ice-show as the novelty act.
Kitty
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
Mimi
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
Doris
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
Streetwalker (uncredited)
Пятидесятипятилетний профессор психологии Ричард Ванли, известный криминолог, однажды вечером, когда его жена и дети уехали на каникулы, видит в витрине галереи портрет молодой женщины, которым он уже неоднократно восхищался. Вдруг он видит женщину, которая как две капли воды похожа на портрет. Это модель Алиса Рид, которая позировала художнику. Она приглашает Ванли к себе домой, чтобы показать другие полотна этого художника. Неожиданно появляется возлюбленный дамы. Обуянный ревностью, он устраивает скандал и Ванли случайно убивает его…
Marge O'Day
Swing Hostess is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by Sam Newfield for Producers Releasing Corporation and starring Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Betty Brodel, Cliff Nazarro and Harry Holman.
Lefty
In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
Woman Exiting Theatre
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
Patsy Brent
A female bail-bond broker and her partner help an accused embezzler prove his innocence. Having the body of the embezzler's late business partner pop up doesn't help matters.
Mazie Dunbar
The gang is friend with a millionaire because they saved him from an agression. However, the gang is suspecting that the man's son was actually one of the agressors.
Glenda Benton
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
Sunshine Twin
Молодая, начинающая певица приезжает в гости к своему сводному брату в Нью-Йорк, и обнаруживает, что он работает дворецким у известного бродвейского композитора. Любовная интрига меняет ее жизнь и помогает сделать карьеру.
Bernice Quigley
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
Dorothy
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
Arlene
Декабрь 1943 года. США вступает в воздушное противостояние с Германией, открыв второй фронт с союзниками. Американские летчики готовят свои боевые машины к полету через Атлантику в оккупированную фашистами Европу. Популярная певица Пени Крэйг знакомится в пункте переливания крови красного креста с Биллом Морли летчиком дальней авиации США, который, ради шутки выдает себя за врача. Они влюбляются друг в друга с первого взгляда, но война есть война и её любимый должен лететьна фронт. Пени решает внести свой вклад в борьбу с нацистами, она надевает рабочий комбинезон и как многие её сверстницы идет работать на авиазавод, чтобы помочь стране в тяжелые дни. В перерывах между работой она поёт своим друзьямпрекрасные песни, которые подхватывает вся Америка.
Jenny O'Hara (uncredited)
Американский танкер потоплен торпедой от немецкой подлодки. Выжившие члены экипажа, проведя несколько дней в открытом море, спасены и возвращаются на берег в ожидании нового назначения. Капитан Стив Джарвис отправляется домой к жене; его помощник Джо Росси знакомится с певицей в баре и женится на ней. Оба попадают на борт корабля «Морская ведьма», следующий в Мурманск в составе конвоя союзников…..
Gee Gee Graham
Красотка Дикси — бывшая оперная певица, ныне работающая в театре бурлеска, в котором в неё влюблены все кроме её ближайшей конкурентки Лолиты. Помимо неё вскоре в шоу возвращается и его бывшая звезда — Принцесса Нирвена. Соперничество между дивами обостряется, а вскоре обеих конкуренток Дикси находят мёртвыми.
Waitress
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
Kitty McClouen
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.
Gert
A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.
Mrs. Angela Martin
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
Blonde Chorine
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
Sassy Woman Exiting Bus
Простой сюжет, но оживленный яркими диалогами, так как жены оркестрантов совершают поступки не только полные любви, но и коварства на протяжении путешествия оркестра.
Maisie
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Babe Stanton (uncredited)
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Сьюзен Миллер и ее подруга Пегги работают продавщицами в дорогом универмаге. Девушки с тоской взирают на недоступные им роскошные наряды и украшения в соседних отделах, мечтая оказаться «по ту сторону прилавка». Однажды случай сводит Сьюзен с Мейбл и Уорреном. Эти двое выдают себя за респектабельную супружескую пару, а на самом деле являются мошенниками, обманывающими состоятельных людей.
Когда Мейбл и Уоррен предлагают Сьюзен поработать с ними, выдавая себя за их дочь, та вначале с негодованием отказывается, но страсть к красивой жизни одерживает верх. Как то раз на морском курорте, мошенники встречают симпатичного и одинокого Джона Уилера, которого они принимают за миллионера…
Gertie
Чтобы запустить карьеру в шоу-бизнесе, Рокси Харт признается в совершении убийства в Чикаго…
Verne Drake
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
Dena Maxwellton
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her. The switcheroo causes the soldier her husband appointed as her unofficial guardian no end of confusion.
Toots O'Day (uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Goldie Duvall
Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachelors.
Francine La Verne
In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show. Wanting to launch his career, he convinces his father to allow him to create a production using the workers at the old man's clothing factory. Unfortunately, the young man is naive and an unscrupulous producer bilks his father's advance money from him.
Mazie
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.
Hortense Kent
The plot centers on a husband-wife radio team, Dick (Rudy Vallee) and Virginia (Helen Parrish). When Dick is caught in an innocent but compromising situation with brassy blonde showgirl Hortense (Iris Adrian), Virginia is encouraged to inaugurate divorce proceedings by her oily ex-beau Ted (Jerome Cowan). It all winds up in Mexico, with Dick ardently chasing Virginia until she catches him.
Chorus Girl
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
French soubrette
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Arleen Grady
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
Mary Lou
Старый золотоискатель владеет участком, который не приносит золота. Однако даже пустая земля может дать прибыль — если продать её для строительства железной дороги. Но когда документ на владение землей попадает в руки недотёп, всем участникам сделки приходится несладко.
Jail Cell Blonde
Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, let their hair down and went "screwball" in the Universal comedy-mystery Meet the Wildcat. Bellamy plays a New York gumshoe on the trail of an art thief. His investigation is confounded by the presence of snoopy girl reporter Lindsay.
Sugar (uncredited)
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Myrtle
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
Lil, Maizie's Friend
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Alice
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
Rita
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
Theater Ticket Seller (Uncredited)
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
Muriel Randel
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
Gettel's Wife (uncredited)
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Sunny Verne
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Goldie Allen
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
Island Girl (uncredited)
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Lady In The Audience
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
Extra
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
