The Stolen Jools (1931)

The Stolen Jools (1931) is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day. The stars appeared in the film, distributed by Paramount Pictures, to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
When the film was shown in theaters in 1931, a person would appear after the film to ask the audience for donations. Because the film was made for charity, it has an unusually large cast of actors from different studios(defying contract status), such as Warner Brothers, RKO Radio Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, and Hal Roach Studios.
This film was known by the name The Slippery Pearls in the United Kingdom, and was thought to be a lost film until a print was found in the UK in the 1990s. Another print was later found in the US under the alternate title.

Directed by William C. McGann.
Starring;
At the Police Station: Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Jack Hill, J. Farrell MacDonald, Edward G. Robinson, George E. Stone

The Law: Eddie Kane, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

At the Victim's House: Our Gang: Farina, Stymie, Chubby, Mary Ann Jackson, Shirley Jean Rickert, Echo, Wheezer, Pete the Pup, Polly Moran, Norma Shearer, Hedda Hopper

Tete-a-Tete: Joan Crawford, William Haines

On the Porch Swing: Dorothy Lee

At Breakfast: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, El Brendel

In the Hotel; Charlie Murray, George Sidney, Winnie Lightner, Fifi D'Orsay, Warner Baxter, Irene Dunne

At Lunch; Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey

In the Movie Studio: Richard Dix, Claudia Dell, Lowell Sherman

The Newsmen: Eugene Pallette, Stuart Erwin, Skeets Gallagher, Gary Cooper, Wynne Gibson, Buddy Rogers

The Detective; Maurice Chevalier

Under the Tree: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Charles Butterworth

Couples at Home: Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay

In a Movie Scene: Jack Oakie and Fay Wray

Projectionist: George "Gabby" Hayes

The Midget: Little Billy (Billy Rhodes)

Mitzi Green solves the mystery. Joe E. Brown

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• comedy
• short

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