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Early Stooges Stuff, can it be found?
Dunrobin:
Another Ted Healy era film to look for is MEET THE BARON, from 1933. It starred Jack Perl and Jimmy Durante, with Edna May Oliver and Zazu Pitts. Healy and the Stooges play janitors at a girls' college, and they steal every scene that they're in! It also includes a rather risque shower scene that becomes hysterical when the Stooges show up to "fix" the plumbing. ;D
Robbie883:
Yeah, I agree that Meet the Baron is a good one. My favorite part is when there working on that pipe and there blindfolded, and Healy keeps hitting hitting curly in the head and Larry gave him a stuffed animal. LOL :D
shempheadbat:
I have about three copies of "Soup to Nuts", all unlabelled and 'somewhere' in the forbidding box of videos I must go through and catalogue before DVD kills the radio star, as it were... I'd be happy to oblige you by 'lending' you one if I can find it (which you can keep, if you promise not to return it ;) ) just email me or pm me, i'll see what I can do. It is one of my favourites, very weird and manic, and as I'm a fan of Rube Goldberg this is a treasure that must be shared... "Hollywood Party" is great, I kinda like Durante on his own (we shall never speak of the teamings with Buster Keaton, though; what a TERRIBLE idea, and a death blow to Keaton's career...)
Baggie:
I wouldn't mind a copy, where the hell did you get it from?? Where can I get hold of Dancing Lady, or Meet The Baron?
metaldams:
It's been awhile since I've seen it, but SOUP TO NUTS was strangely fun. Those burglar catching machines were out of this world and The Stooges were fun in every scene they were in. As a terrible dancer myself, I feel more secure knowing even I can do Larry's "elevator dance."
Only saw clips of MEET THE BARON and it looks fun.
As for Durante ruining Keaton's career, I think those films, and Keaton's other talkies, were his most commercially successful, if you can believe that (and THE GENERAL bombed)! I think Keaton was MGM's 9th highest grossing star in 1932. Keaton's alcoholism and his ability to piss off Louis B. Mayer is what did Keaton's career in. Commercially successful as they were, Keaton's talking features are truly dreadful affairs today.
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