- Crazy House (1943 film)
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Crazy House 
Video tape cover.Directed by Edward F. Cline Written by Robert Lees
Frederic I. RinaldoStarring Ole Olsen
Chic Johnson
Cass DaleyMusic by George Hale Cinematography Charles Van Enger Editing by Arthur Hilton Distributed by 
Universal PicturesRelease date(s) October 8, 1943
May 22, 1944
July 31, 1950Running time 80 min. Country United StatesLanguage English Crazy House is a 1943 comedy film starring Ole Olson and Chic Johnson as a pair of comedians who try to make a film with no budget, no story and no clue. Complications ensue when the final reel goes missing at the film's premiere. Cass Daley costars. Stooge Shemp Howard has a small role in the film. The film also features cameo appearances by Count Basie, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (in the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson), and Andy Devine among others.
The Three Stooges
The film contains a trio of veteran Three Stooges alumni lead by Shemp Howard as "Mumbo." Fred Sanborn, who was the fourth Stooge in the team's debut feature Soup to Nuts plays "Jumbo." And Frank Mitchell in the patsy role as "Dumbo." Mitchell was part of the Three Stooges team twice in his career; a brief tenure with Ted Healy in the early vaudeville days of the team, and again in the 70's taking over for an ailing Moe Howard (Mitchell was the only actor to ever officially replace Moe Howard as a Stooge).
Crazy House is the only appearance of this unofficial team of Stooges, and the only known footage of Frank Mitchell as a Stooge in any capacity.
Cast
- Ole Olsen ... Himself
- Chic Johnson ... Himself
- Cass Daley ... Herself/Sadie Silverfish
- Martha O'Driscoll ... Marjorie Nelson, alias Marjorie Wyndingham
- Patric Knowles ... Edmund 'Mac' MacLean
- Percy Kilbride ... Col. Cornelius Merriweather
- Hans Conried ... Roco
- Leighton Noble ... Himself
- Richard Lane ... Hanley
- Thomas Gomez ... N.G. Wagstaff
- Billy Gilbert ... Sid Drake
- Edgar Kennedy ... Judge
- Andrew Tombes ... Horace L. Gregory
- Chester Clute ... Fud
- Franklin Pangborn ... Hotel clerk
- Shemp Howard ... Mumbo
- Fred Sanborn ... Jumbo
- Count Basie Orchestra with Jimmy Rushing and Thelma Carpenter
External links
- Crazy House at the Internet Movie Database
- Crazy House at AllRovi
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- Black-and-white films
- Films directed by Edward F. Cline
- 1940s comedy films
- 1940s comedy film stubs
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