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Released December 29, 1934
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Vitaphone
20.5 min. (Short Subject)

Vaudevillans Emmy Cook and Shemp Butler have been thrown out of yet another theatre. The Woodburys have fired their cook and butler. So naturally, Shemp and Emmy mistake an employment agency ad as a booking for their act, and arrive at the Woodbury mansion in time to prepare and serve an elegant dinner party. Disaster looms as they cook their first turkey dinner, confuse alum for sugar, get drunk in the wine cellar, and accidentally baste the plum pudding with gasoline instead of brandy.

A PEACH OF A PAIR's turkey-stuffing gags were borrowed by director Lloyd French seven years later, and scripted for Curly Howard in French's screenplay of AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE.

The closing blackface gag was edited from this film's presentation on the TNT cable network in the early 1990s. The Warner Archive DVD release is complete and unedited.

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Avg. Rating: [8.55/10]
 
PEACH OF A PAIR, A on IMDb

Shemp Howard
Shemp Butler

Harry Shannon
Theatre manager

John Brown
John Brown

Cora Witherspoon
Suzie Woodbury

Charles Howard
Mr. Woodbury

Jessie Busley
Mrs. Potter

Herschel Mayall
Dinner party guest

Elmer Brown
Dinner party guest

Melissa Arno
Dinner party guest

Margaret Irving
Dinner party guest


Lloyd French
Director

Edwin B. DuPar
Photography


















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