Lloyd French

Lloyd French

Lloyd French (January 11, 1900 – May 24, 1950) was an American director of short films, most of them comedies. His best remembered films are several Laurel and Hardy comedies in the 1930s. He also made several musical short films featuring many bandleaders of the day; in the 1940s he also directed several shorts starring Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol; he made his last film in 1946. French was born in San Francisco, California and died in Beverly Hills, California of heart disease.

  • Title: Lloyd French
  • Popularity: 1.165
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1900-01-11
  • Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Lloyd A. French
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Lloyd French Movies

  • 1933
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    Busy Bodies

    Busy Bodies

    7.3 1933 HD

    In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a...

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  • 1933
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    The Midnight Patrol

    The Midnight Patrol

    6.5 1933 HD

    Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.

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    Dirty Work

    Dirty Work

    6.8 1933 HD

    Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.

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  • 1934
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    Oliver the Eighth

    Oliver the Eighth

    7.2 1934 HD

    Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a husband. Ollie only mails in his response and is...

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  • 1929
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    That's My Wife

    That's My Wife

    6.8 1929 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    The Good Old Plumbertime

    The Good Old Plumbertime

    1 1936 HD

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  • 1938
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    Freddie Rich and His Orchestra

    Freddie Rich and His Orchestra

    6.2 1938 HD

    A musical short subject in which band leader Freddie Rich conducts three musical numbers with his orchestra, with solos by Nan Wynn with the Three...

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  • 1939
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    At Home

    At Home

    1 1939 HD

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  • 1940
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    All Girl Revue

    All Girl Revue

    5.5 1940 HD

    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.

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  • 1938
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    The Great Library Misery

    The Great Library Misery

    6 1938 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    An Ache in Every Stake

    An Ache in Every Stake

    7.2 1941 HD

    The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring...

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  • 1936
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    Nut Guilty

    Nut Guilty

    1 1936 HD

    In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.

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  • 1934
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    Dizzy & Daffy

    Dizzy & Daffy

    1 1934 HD

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

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    Smoked Hams

    Smoked Hams

    1 1934 HD

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

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    His First Flame

    His First Flame

    1 1935 HD

    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...

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    Double Exposure

    Double Exposure

    7 1935 HD

    An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband does not want...

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  • 1935
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    Watch the Birdie

    Watch the Birdie

    5.5 1935 HD

    Prankster Bob is traveling to New York by ship with his girlfriend and he proposes to marry her. Along the trip, he plays pranks on the captain,...

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  • 1938
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    Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra

    Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra

    5 1938 HD

    In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete...

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  • 1938
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    Sin-copation

    Sin-copation

    1 1938 HD

    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...

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    Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Carol Bruce

    Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Carol Bruce

    1 1938 HD

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

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  • 1938
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    Saturday Night Swing Club

    Saturday Night Swing Club

    1 1938 HD

    Leith Stevens leads his orchestra in a nice assortment of standards in a variety of musical styles, including Dixieland and swing. Mr. Stevens was a...

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  • 1936
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    While the Cat's Away

    While the Cat's Away

    1 1936 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    On the Wagon

    On the Wagon

    1 1935 HD

    Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-law.

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  • 1935
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    The Officer's Mess

    The Officer's Mess

    1 1935 HD

    Gus Doakes joins the National Guard; hilarity ensues.

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    A Peach of a Pair

    A Peach of a Pair

    1 1934 HD

    Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.

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  • 1935
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    All American Drawback

    All American Drawback

    5 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    Double Talk

    Double Talk

    1 1937 HD

    Orphanage manager Dr. Bergen tries to get a rich woman to adopt Charlie McCarthy.

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  • 1937
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    A Neckin' Party

    A Neckin' Party

    1 1937 HD

    Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy travel to Mexico and enrage a jealous boyfriend.

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  • 1935
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    Two Boobs in a Balloon

    Two Boobs in a Balloon

    4.5 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Mail Trouble

    Mail Trouble

    1 1942 HD

    Leon Errol's father-in-law makes trouble.

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  • 1936
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    Shop Talk

    Shop Talk

    1 1936 HD

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

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  • 1936
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    Calling All Tars

    Calling All Tars

    1 1936 HD

    This early comedy short has Bob Hope and John Berkes putting on sailor uniforms to find dates, getting mistaken for real sailors and being dragged...

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  • 1924
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    Rupert of Hee-Haw

    Rupert of Hee-Haw

    5.2 1924 HD

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  • 1932
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    Scram!

    Scram!

    7.2 1932 HD

    Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion....

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  • 1933
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    Me and My Pal

    Me and My Pal

    6.5 1933 HD

    On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle from Stan as a wedding gift. The boys soon...

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    Towed in a Hole

    Towed in a Hole

    7.1 1932 HD

    Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.

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  • 1942
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    Private Snuffy Smith

    Private Snuffy Smith

    3.8 1942 HD

    A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.

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  • 1936
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    Rushin' Art

    Rushin' Art

    1 1936 HD

    An expert on Russian art apparently doesn't know as much about it as he thinks he does.

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  • 1932
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    You're Telling Me

    You're Telling Me

    5 1932 HD

    In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night -...

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    Too Many Women

    Too Many Women

    9 1932 HD

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

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    The Knockout

    The Knockout

    4.5 1932 HD

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

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    Wild Babies!

    Wild Babies!

    1 1932 HD

    Two aspiring songwriters have a weird nightmare about the jungle.

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  • 1929
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    Wrong Again

    Wrong Again

    6.7 1929 HD

    Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return...

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  • 1933
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    Sons of the Desert

    Sons of the Desert

    7 1933 HD

    Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

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  • 1928
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    Early to Bed

    Early to Bed

    6.1 1928 HD

    Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's...

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  • 1937
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    Mal Hallett and His Orchestra

    Mal Hallett and His Orchestra

    1 1937 HD

    Mal Hallett and his Orchestra perform three songs with featured dancers

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  • 1940
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    Drafted in the Depot

    Drafted in the Depot

    1 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Absorbing Junior

    Absorbing Junior

    1 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Hold Your Temper

    Hold Your Temper

    1 1943 HD

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

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  • 1936
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    For the Love of Pete

    For the Love of Pete

    1 1936 HD

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

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  • 1936
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    Here's Howe

    Here's Howe

    1 1936 HD

    Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka (Robert Norton) and his manager/trainer Knobby Walsh (Shemp Howard), are eating a poor farmer out of house and...

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  • 1937
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    Taking the Count

    Taking the Count

    1 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Punch and Beauty

    Punch and Beauty

    1 1936 HD

    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.

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  • 1935
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    Serves You Right

    Serves You Right

    1 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    So You Won't T-T-T-Talk

    So You Won't T-T-T-Talk

    3.5 1934 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    The Blonde Bomber

    The Blonde Bomber

    1 1936 HD

    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,...

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  • 1937
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    Kick Me Again

    Kick Me Again

    1 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    The Choke's on You

    The Choke's on You

    1 1936 HD

    Joe Palooka and Strangler Chokeovitch have set up training camps on adjacent beachfront sites. When Joe knocks out the Strangler after a...

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  • 1935
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    Why Pay Rent?

    Why Pay Rent?

    1 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    The Old Grey Mayor

    The Old Grey Mayor

    6 1935 HD

    Bob Hope wants to marry the mayor's daughter, but the mayor doesn't want his daughter to marry Bob Hope.

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  • 1939
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    The Broadway Buckaroo

    The Broadway Buckaroo

    1 1939 HD

    Red Skelton inherits a dude ranch and must live there for six months, far from the bright lights of New York City.

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  • 1940
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    The Dipsy Doodler

    The Dipsy Doodler

    3 1940 HD

    A concert film

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  • 1939
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    Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra

    Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra

    1 1939 HD

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

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  • 1929
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    Big Business

    Big Business

    6.7 1929 HD

    Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer...

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  • 1928
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    Should Married Men Go Home?

    Should Married Men Go Home?

    6.4 1928 HD

    Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.

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  • 1939
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    On the Air

    On the Air

    1 1939 HD

    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...

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