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MEET THE CHUMP (1941)

Film Pick of the Day
Monday, August 17, 2026

Scatter-brained investment broker Hugh Mansfield (Hugh Herbert) learns that he's losing money for his clients. And, his charitable contributions and bankrolling of the neighborhood kids' newspaper has drained half of his nephew's trust fund... a $10 million trust that must be paid off the next day on nephew's wedding day. Hoping to stay out of jail, Mansfield has himself committed to a sanitarium in hope that he can plead insanity. Mixups ensue when nephew John Mansfield is mistaken for his uncle, and escapes with a nurse into the hands of a couple gambling racketeers (Shemp Howard & Richard Lane), who hold him for a ransom that Hugh can't pay.

Details

Average Rating:

[ 7.50/10 ]   2 votes
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Release Date Friday, February 14, 1941
Studio Universal
Production Type Feature Film
Duration 60 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - August 17th


Births

Harlan Briggs
(Actor)
b. 1879

Blissfield, MI

Charles Judels
(Actor)
b. 1882

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mae West
(Actress)
b. 1893

Brooklyn, NY

Hubert Diltz
(Actor)
b. 1895

Colorado Springs, CO

Dewey Robinson
(Actor)
b. 1898

New Haven, CT

Martin Obzina
(Associate Art Director)
b. 1905

Chicago, IL

Allen Wood
(Actor)
b. 1906

New York, NY

Seymour Friedman
(Assistant Director)
b. 1917

Detroit, MI

Evelyn Ankers
(Actress)
b. 1918

Valparaiso, Chile

Sam Butera and the Witnesses
(Actor)
b. 1927

New Orleans, LA


Deaths

Claudia Coleman
(Actress)
d. 1938   (52)

Los Angeles, CA

Nick Copeland
(Actor)
d. 1940   (45)

Los Angeles, CA

Harry Short
(Actor)
d. 1943   (67)

New York, NY

Tom Chatterton
(Actor)
d. 1952   (71)

Los Angeles, CA

Tom Reed
(Actor)
d. 1961   (59)

Long Beach, CA

Richard Barthelmess
(Actor)
d. 1963   (68)

Southampton, NY

Horace McMahon
(Actor)
d. 1971   (65)

Norwalk, CT

Edgar Dearing
(Actor)
d. 1974   (81)

Woodland Hills, CA

Sig Arno
(Actor)
d. 1975   (79)

Woodland Hills, CA

Harold Adamson
(Lyrics)
d. 1980   (73)

Los Angeles, CA

Barry Trivers
(Story)
d. 1981   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Clarence Brown
(Director)
d. 1987   (97)

Santa Monica, CA

Mike Mahoney
(Actor)
d. 1988   (70)

Oceanside, CA


Events

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1938-08-15 to 1938-08-18

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WHAT'S THE MATADOR? in production

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1943-08-16 to 1943-08-31

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