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Released October 08, 1943
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
80 min. (Feature Film)

Universal Studios panics when Olsen & Johnson return to Hollywood to produce the film version of CRAZY HOUSE, and bans them from the studio. "Universal's # 1 comedy team is here." "Oh, Abbott & Costello... send 'em in!" So Ole & Chic, with help of former Universal director 'Mac' MacLean (Patric Knowles), create their own production company, Miracle Pictures... "If you can watch our movie, it must be a Miracle!" The boys want Cass Daley to star, but accidentally sign her identical cousin Sadie Silverfish instead, and then cast former carhop waitress Marjorie Nelson, aka Marjorie Wyndingham, as their new romantic singing sensation. Their financing partner, millionaire Col. Merriwether (Percy Kilbride), is actually penniless and nuttier than a fruitcake. The businessmen providing studio and facilities (Richard Lane, Billy Gilbert, Chester Clute, Andrew Tombes) know the truth about Merriwether, plan an attachment on the film when Merriwether can't pay the bills, and then sell CRAZY HOUSE to the highest bidder. When Ole & Chic get wise, the fight goes to court, with Edgar Kennedy doing his patented slow burn as the Judge.

Shemp Howard costars as 'Mumbo', an O&J stooge who hilariously touts a deal in every reel... "Wanna buy a beehive? You won't get stung."... "Wanna buy an anchor? Fresh off the boat."

Rounding out the cast are cameos from virtually every actor on contract at Universal, musical entertainment from Allan Jones, Count Basie, the Glenn Miller Singers, and Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce appear as (who else?) Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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CRAZY HOUSE on IMDb

Ole Olsen
Himself

Patric Knowles
Edmund 'Mac' MacLean

Martha O'Driscoll
Marjorie Wyndingham

Cass Daley
Sadie Silverfish

Cass Daley
Herself

Thomas Gomez
N. G. Wagstaff

Percy Kilbride
Col. Cornelius Merriwether

Billy Gilbert
Sid Drake

Andrew Tombes
Horace L. Gregory

Robert Emmett Keane
Attorney Scatterby

Pierre Watkin
Prosecuting attorney

Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes

Nigel Bruce
Dr. Watson

Turhan Bey
Himself

The Modernaires
Themselves

John Hamilton
Cass Daley's Director

Lew Kelly
Policeman

Lane Chandler
Policeman

Hank Mann
Keystone Kop

Heinie Conklin
Keystone Kop

Frank Hagney
Studio cop

Jerry Mandy
Bank robber

Paul McVey
Studio executive

Fred Niblo
Studio executive

Jack Rice
Dentist

Tiny Ward
Dead End character

Gene Roth
Dead End character

Duke York
Dead End character

Sammy Stein
Dead End character

Bess Flowers
Woman in nightclub

Emmett Vogan
Col. Merriwether's observer

Bobby Barber
Bald man

Brooks Benedict
Photographer

Paul Newlan
Strongman

Ray Walker
Radio host

Robert Barron
Beachcomber

Martha Tilton
Marjorie's singing voice

Harold DeGarro
Stilt walker

George Beatty
Theater manager

Ezelle Poule
Impersonator

Ben Frommer
Impersonator

Florence Mayo
Pansy the horse, 1/2

Andy Mayo
Pansy the horse, 1/2

Grace McDonald
War movie assistant

Edmund Mortimer
Man in hotel lobby

Ethelreda Leopold
Woman watching talent show

Charles Dorety
Man in row boat

Harry Ward
Comedy violinist

Joe Van
Comedy harpist

Edgar Barrier
Studio actor


Howard Christie
Assistant Director

Robert Lees
Screenplay

Charles Van Enger
Director of Photography

Arthur Hilton
Film Editor

Harold MacArthur
Art Director

John B. Goodman
Art Director

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Director

Paul Neal
Sound Technician

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

A. J. Gilmore
Set Decoration

Charles Previn
Musical Director

Ted Cain
Music Supervisor

Larry Russell
Orchestrator

Frank Skinner
Orchestrator

Jim Mundy
Orchestrator

Mitchell Parish
Music and Lyrics

Gus Kahn
Music and Lyrics

Jerry Seelen
Music and Lyrics

Dan Shapiro
Music and Lyrics

Lester Lee
Music and Lyrics

Don Raye
Lyrics

George Hale
Choreographer

John P. Fulton
Effects Photographer


















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