Hal Roach — Producer (136)
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Maid in Hollywood (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Maid in Hollywood
director: Gus Meins actor: Thelma Todd / Patsy Kelly …
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
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Soup and Fish (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Soup and Fish
director: Gus Meins actor: Thelma Todd / Patsy Kelly …
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head. The butler calls the hostess back to her home. Is Thelma and Patsy's moment in high society coming to a crashing end?
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The Tin Man (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Tin Man
director: James Parrott actor: Thelma Todd / Patsy Kelly …
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, and this adds to the problems the girls already have.
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Sing Sister Sing (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sing Sister Sing
director: James Parrott actor: Thelma Todd / Patsy Kelly …
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
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Our Wife (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Our Wife
director: James W. Horne actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - Die Braut wird geklaut / Laurel et Hardy - Justes noces …
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
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Seeing Nellie Home (1924) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Seeing Nellie Home
director: Leo McCarey actor: Charley Chase / Ena Gregory …
The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by taking a pretty girl back home, wreaks havoc trying to get her in, then discovers that she's married.
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Oliver the Eighth (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Oliver the Eighth
director: Lloyd French actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - Das Privatleben von Oliver dem Achten / Laurel Et Hardy - Oliver Le Huitième …
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 invited to the widow's mansion. Stan discovers his unmailed letter and insists on tagging along. At the mansion, the widow's creepy butler informs them that the woman is crazy. She was once jilted by an Oliver and now her hobby is marrying Olivers and then slitting their throats. Now the boys must figure out how to escape.
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Them Thar Hills (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Them Thar Hills
director: Charley Rogers actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - Selige Campingfreuden / Laurel et Hardy - Les joyeux compères …
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
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Going Bye-Bye! (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Going Bye-Bye!
director: Charley Rogers actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - Der große Fang / Laurel et Hardy - Compagnons de voyage …
In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison. Frightened, the boys plan to leave town and advertise for someone to share expenses with them. The woman who answers the ad is actually Butch's girlfriend. Meanwhile Butch escapes and hides in a trunk in his girlfriend's apartment where he gets locked inside. Not realizing who it is, Stan and Ollie finally manage to get the trunk open and then Butch exacts his revenge.
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Me and My Pal (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Me and My Pal
director: Charley Rogers / Lloyd French actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof als Mitgiftjäger / Laurel et Hardy - Les deux flemmards …
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 become absorbed in the puzzle. A taxi driver, butler, policeman and messenger boy join in as well.
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Scram! (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Scram!
director: Ray McCarey actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - Gelächter in der Nacht / Laurel et Hardy - Les Deux Vagabonds …
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. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.