Lloyd French

It's a typical day at the woodshop for Stanley and Oliver, getting jammed in windows, puncturing water pipes... (imdb)

It's the morning of Oliver's wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter. While waiting for the taxi to take them to the ceremony, Oliver and his best man Stanley become absorbed in a jigsaw puzzle, Stanley's wedding present. Eventually the taxi driver, the butler, a policeman and a messenger boy all get involved with the puzzle, while Cucumber fumes as he awaits the long-overdue groom. (imdb)

Novice policemen Stanley and Oliver, eating lunch in their patrol car, nearly have their spare tire stolen by a thief and his sassy partner. They then miss the broadcast address of a burglary in progress, and Stanley borrows the phone in a jewelry store to call the station, mistaking the safecracker inside for the shop's owner. The boys eventually manage to catch the apparent burglar and bring him back to the station, only to find it's really the police chief, who'd been locked out of his house. (imdb)

Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy visit Bergen's ranch (named the "Costa Mucha") in Mexico. A girl falls for Charlie to make her boyfriend jealous, and the boyfriend invites Charlie to a "necking party." But it's not the kind of party Charlie thinks it is. (imdb)

The wealthy Mrs. Virginia Delaware is at the Bergen Orphanage to choose a child to adopt. Dr. Bergen wants Mrs. Delaware to choose the troublesome Charlie McCarthy if only to get rid of him. Charlie, on the other hand, doesn't want Mrs. Delaware to adopt him. (imdb)

Barbershop owners Stanley and Oliver both answer a personal ad from a rich widow seeking a husband. Oliver hides Stanley's reply and mails just his own. When Oliver receives a proposal of marriage from the widow, he sets off to start a life of wealth and ease. (imdb)

Chimney sweeps Stanley and Oliver go about their job, reducing Professor Noodle's living room to a shambles in the process, while the mad doctor works in his laboratory perfecting his "rejuvination formula." Cackling with glee, the Professor demonstrates his success for the boys, dropping a duckling into the vat and winding up with an egg. There's a somewhat different type of regression, however, when Stanley accidentally knocks Oliver into the formula. (imdb)

Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into drag) to impersonate Oliver's loving spouse. (imdb)

A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals. (imdb)

After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him. (imdb)

At the time this was made Hope was still a Broadway star and I'm sure did this one at Warner Brothers New York studio. It looked like old ski nose was trying to find his particular comedy style. He's in a team with John Berkes, but Hope comes across a lot like Moe Howard vis a vis Berkes and Berkes is like a bargain basement version of Stan Laurel. (imdb)

A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme. (imdb)

In this short subject, Charlie and Mr. Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice. (imdb)

A musical short subject in which bandleader Freddie Rich conducts three musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn. In the midst of the radio broadcast on which the band is performing, a gangly guitarist named Joe Sodja interrupts and asks to perform. (imdb)

The day before he is to report to the national guard, Gus Doaks played by Shemp Howard, an obnoxious water at a french restaurant, serves up a disater to a Major and his girlfriend. (stooges.wikia)

The Dean and Board of Flunk Well College are arguing with its football coach, Bergen, about the team's star player, Charlie McCarthy, who is the only reason the team is a winning one, but who isn't doing well academically and could be pulled from the team if his grades and behavior don't improve. In other words, Charlie is a dummy in more ways than one. (imdb)

A man desiring to join the Grouch Club describes the terrible experience of trying to check out a book from a public library. (imdb)

Women are put in charge of the city government for a day, and the mayor must go to the train station to greet an opera singer. (imdb)

When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums. (imdb)

When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout. (imdb)

Mickey and Grady stay at a friend's place for what they tell him will be one night; it stretches into several months. (imdb)

College baseball player Mickey Daniels can't keep his mind on the game when he's got an eye for the ladies. (imdb)

Two aspiring songwriters have a weird nightmare about the jungle. (imdb)

Edgar Kennedy's hunting trip with his single buddies is kiboshed when his wife, Vivien, has made other arrangements for their vacation time. One of Edgar's friends thinks he has a way for Edgar to go hunting with them. He should pretend to join the National Guard, who are holding a two week camp. In reality, Edgar will have only rented a uniform to convince Vivien that he has joined. (imdb)

Johnny's freeloading brother Henry will go to any length to bet on a tip at Belmont, including stealing from Junior's piggy bank. When Johnny's mother-in-law tells them to take Junior to the dentist to have a tooth pulled, and gives them $2 for the doctor, the game is afoot. The money goes to Henry's bookie, and the boys decide to pull Junior's tooth themselves... by tying a string onto the back bumper of a car.

A practical joker takes a cruise with his fiancée and her family. (imdb)

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Crawford host a formal dress audition in their home for a prospective sponsor of their proposed radio show. (imdb)

Errol's obnoxious father-in-law sends Leon's picture to a matrimonial agency, which causes plenty of confusion when the bride-to-be arrives.

Another winning Vitaphone short from Warner where we get to hear some of the hit music from back in the day. This time out Larry Clinton is leading his orchestra through a list of hits including "Powerhouse", "Get Happy" and "You Took Advantage of Me".

Professor Cicero Pu and his dummy Charlie take a trip in the "Spirit of Ammonia" hot air balloon to the stratosphere. After the balloon goes out of control, they land in an unexpected place.

Part of the Melody Masters series (1938-1939 season) #11 where Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra does their comedy and music bits.

Larry Clinton & His Orchestra and two guest vocalists perform several songs popularized by Clinton and his group.

Bob and his fiancé try to break the news of their engagement to her father, the mayor, who is having a very bad day. (imdb)

The setting is a radio broadcast with the bands of Leith Stevens and Bobby Hackett, the vocals by Nan Wynn and a speciality bit by Leslie Lieber playing a toy whistle. Future-and-long-time-voice of the New York Yankees baseball team, Mel Allen (as Melvin Allen), served as the announcer.

Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood. Like the servers before him, he's not only unsuccessful, but beat up for his efforts. Pete's only weakness is women, so Johnny switches clothes with girlfriend Helen, and goes after Pete in drag.

Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.

Shemp Butler & Emmy Cook (Shemp Howard & Daphne Pollard) get hired as a butler and cook.

A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish downstairs neighbors (Shemp Howard and Ruth Gillette). A pleasant getaway turns into a nightmare thanks to the antics of Junior, an uncooperative tent, a lazy and oblivious Henry, and a skunk.

A former art student returns from Europe to run the department store he inherited from his father and finds his employees behaving very bizarrely.

Shemp and Rosco are husbands who married sisters and all live with the wive's mother. The husbands have been out late at night drinking and are trying hard no to make any noise as they slip back into the house, where the mother-in-law is guarding the door armed with a rolling pin. But they get into a neighbor's house and the lady in that house has a very large, jealous husband.

Boxer Joe Palooka steps into the ring after a friend’s dog gets kicked.

Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka (Robert Norton) and his manager/trainer Knobby Walsh (Shemp Howard), are eating a poor farmer out of house and holdings while Joe prepares for a championship bout at Madison Square Garden. The farmer sends the local sheriff to collect from Knobby.

Before the big fight, Joe and his opponent come to blows at their hotel. Palooka knocks him out and the fight has to be postponed.

Joe Palooka and Strangler Chokeovitch have set up training camps on adjacent beachfront sites. When Joe knocks out the Strangler after a misunderstanding, Chokeovitch's manager challenges the champ to a professional wrestling bout, with the winner taking all the gate receipts.

The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he’s been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill.

Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.

Joe Palooka and the gang travel to Paris for a boxing match against the French champion. When Anne is assaulted by a masher, Joe searches the streets for the hooligan, distracting him from his preparation for his powerful opponent.

Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.

Bobby Hackett and his orchestra are the stars of this short. They play some fast swing music that would have appealed to young adults back in the day.

Hades is cooling off, so the Devil imports Leon Navara and his Orchestra to put on some heat using their music instruments. Navara does some piano solos, while the dance team of Honey & Weldon heat things up also. A Vitaphone "Melody Master" short.