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Double Whoopee
Theatrical release posterDirected by Lewis R. Foster Produced by Hal Roach Written by Leo McCarey (story)
H.M. Walker (titles)Starring Stan Laurel
Oliver HardyCinematography Jack Roach
George StevensEditing by Richard C. Currier Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release date(s) May 18, 1929 Running time 20 min. Country United States Language Silent film
English (Original intertitles)Double Whoopee is a 1929 Hal Roach Studios silent short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot during February 1929 and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 18 of that year.
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Synopsis
Laurel and Hardy play the roles of a footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel) at an upper class hotel. Jean Harlow also makes a brief appearance in this film, as a blonde bombshell who gets partially stripped by Laurel & Hardy. One of the funnier scenes is one with an automatic elevator. A haughty prince tries to get on the elevator from the first floor. Simultaneously Oliver summons the elevator. For some reason the outer doors don't close and when the prince (who has been busy giving a speech) tries to step in, he falls into the elevator well. Oliver rides down in the elevator and disappears. The prince is pulled out of the well, all disheveled and dirty. He tries it again. This time Stan summons the elevator and the whole thing repeats.
Cast
- Stan Laurel – Stan
- Oliver Hardy – Ollie
- Jean Harlow – swanky blonde
- Ed Brandenburg – bellhop
- William Gillespie – hotel manager
- Charlie Hall – cab driver
- Hans Joby – prince
- Ham Kinsey – cab driver
- Sam Lufkin – man poked in eye
- Charley Rogers – prime minister
- Tiny Sandford – policeman
- Rolfe Sedan – desk clerk
1969 "talkie" version
While this is a silent film, a version with post-synchronized dialogue tracks provided by voice actors — not Stan's or Ollie's actual voices — was created in 1969. L&H mimic Chuck McCann plays both Stan and Ollie in the talking version. McCann had his own local TV show in New York in the sixties where he used puppets of Stan and Ollie to entertain kids. He was also seen in the 1970s in a television commercial for windshield wipers playing Oliver Hardy opposite a Stan Laurel lookalike.
External links
- Double Whoopee at the Internet Movie Database
- Double Whoopee at AllRovi
- Double Whoopee at Rotten Tomatoes
Laurel and Hardy filmography Articles Stan Laurel (filmography) • Oliver Hardy (filmography) • History (1925–36) & (1936–50) • Comic style • Music • The Sons of the Desert] • Laurel and Hardy (animated series)Collaborators Charlie Hall • James Finlayson • Hal Roach • James Parrott • Leo McCarey • H. M. Walker • James W. Horne • Leroy Shield • Marvin HatleyCategories:- American films
- 1929 films
- 1920s comedy films
- American comedy films
- American silent films
- Black-and-white films
- Films directed by Lewis R. Foster
- Films set in hotels
- Laurel and Hardy (film series)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Silent short films
- 1920s comedy film stubs
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