Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released October 03, 1926
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
Hal Roach
18 min. (Short Subject)
18 min. (Short Subject)
Pinkham University's (P.U.) "old cockroach" of a Dean (Jimmy Finlayson) blames coed Helene's campus frock shop for the student girls' behavior, and tells her to leave. Helene's boyfriend Napoleon Fizz (Ted Healy), the Dean's cottage caretaker and perpetual student after 11 years in the freshman class, has invented a medicinal plaster that restores youth. After the Dean accidentally sits on the concoction, he reverts to the mentality of a coed-chasing college lad, to the University President's shock. When the Dean serenades the girls at the sorority house, Helene decides to disguise Napoleon as the house matron, and catch the Dean in a compromising photograph to be used for blackmail when he regains his senses. But the arrival of the real matron, the University President and faculty, turns the evening into a farce of mistaken identity.
Stan Laurel, one year prior to teaming with Oliver Hardy to create one of the greatest comedy teams in film history, directed Stooges' straightman Ted Healy in this amusing vehicle, starring Jimmy Finlayson.
Avg. Rating: 
[6.67/10]
[6.67/10]
Helene Chadwick
Helene
Ted Healy
Napolean Fizz
James Finlayson
Dean of Pinkham University
Burr McIntosh
President
Tyler Brooke
Faculty member
William Courtright
Faculty member
Charlotte Mineau
Matron
Martha Sleeper
Coed
Clara Guiol
Coed
Hal Roach
Producer
F. Richard Jones
Director
Stan Laurel
Director
Carl Harbaugh
Screenplay
James Parrott
Screenplay
H. M. Walker
Screenplay
Harry W. Gerstad
Photography
Len Powers
Assistant Cameraman
Harry W. Lieb
Assistant Film Editor
Richard C. Currier
Film Editor
William H. Terhune
Assistant Film Editor
Sherbourne Shields
Assistant Director
E. H. Young
Animator
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