5th and final list of comedy shorts
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- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsZasu PittsThelma ToddOtto FriesThe girls encounter a runaway lion while stranded out in the country.Starting this list with some Thelma Todd shorts
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsZasu PittsThelma ToddBilly GilbertJuror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsZasu PittsThelma ToddBilly GilbertInstead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsZasu PittsThelma ToddCharles JudelsDuring WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyDon BarclayThe girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyJames C. MortonThe girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyHarry BernardStan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.Laurel & Hardys now
- DirectorJames ParrottLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyRichard CarleLoony scientist (Carle) hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyHarry BernardStanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord. Attempts to bathe the smelly animal result in a waterlogged free-for-all.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyCharlie HallStanley's attempts to treat Oliver's cold include dropping a swab down his friend's throat, applying a mustard plaster to his rump, and inflating the air mattress from the gas jet until it has Oliver pressed against the ceiling.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyCharlie HallIn the dead of night, a terrible toothache wakes up poor Stan, and after a series of home-made remedies, Ollie takes him to the dentist. There, ample amounts of laughing gas lead to the perfect mess. Will Stan ever visit the dentist again?
- DirectorHal YatesStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyAnita GarvinHandymen (Laurel & Hardy) deliver a cumbersome washing machine to a house fronted by a huge flight of stairs.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMatthew 'Stymie' BeardAn Our Gang Comedy. Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.Our Gang
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsTed HealyMoe HowardLarry FineA father tells bedtime stories to his three sons.pre Columbia Stooges
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardSet in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardIn the Old West, the Stooges are crooked gamblers gypping the resident of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff, they disguise themselves as Indians. Their plan works until Curely, dressed as a squaw, is forced to marry a local tough guy. The stooges are unmasked and wind up in the hoosegow.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardSet in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the girls' hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job. The boys go on the case and pose as night watchmen at an antiques store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a real gorilla owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a wild fight, the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardRejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostrich that eats gunpowder and lays explosive eggs.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardSet in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are facing eviction and decide to raise some money by becoming baby-sitters. Their first client is a women separated from her husband, who entrusts her son "Junior" to the boys' care. When The husband steals the baby, the stooges set out to find their missing charge and return him to his mother. The boys confront the husband and find Junior, and in the process the estranged couple is re-united.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardLarry and Shemp are living in a stolen railroad car. Larry wants to marry his girlfriend, but she won't consent until Shemp marries her sister. Shemp however, is constantly drunk and in love with "Carry", an imaginary giant canary. Moe is an investigator from the railroad, sent to discover how the car was stolen from a moving train. Moe is also in love with Shemp's girl. Shemp winds up with both women, but still prefers his imaginary canary.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineJoe BesserThe stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in Europe. After they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he left behind in Paris, has moved in next door. The only problem is that she's now married, with a very jealous husband. The husband turns out to be a real cad, and when Fifi overhears him tell about his plans to find a new wife, she clobbers him and goes back to Joe.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsShemp HowardTom KennedyChristine McIntyreA Columbia All Star Comedy (production number 8431) in which Mrs. Allen's husband has left her in a lurch for a society party and she decides a call a date bureau for an escort. She calls the wrong number and gets Shemp Howard, the rat exterminator, who, mistaking her intentions, accompanies her to the party, and plies his trade...to a fault.
- DirectorBen HolmesStarsBobby ClarkPaul McCulloughDorothy GrangerTwo detectives are plagued by the practical joke-pulling president of a novelty toy company.Clark &McCullogh
- DirectorArthur RipleyStarsEdgar KennedyFlorence LakeKitty McHughEdgar decides on a plan to get his freeloading slacker of a brother-in-law, who hasn't worked in four years, to get a job by faking a heart attack.Edgar Kennedy
- DirectorAl BoasbergStarsLeon ErrolEddie KaneJack NortonMrs. Errol and mother-in-law take a firm hand on Leon's drinking habits. The result turns mother-in-law to drink.Leon errols
- DirectorHal YatesStarsLeon ErrolDorothy GrangerMyrna DellA beautiful redhead (Myrna Dell) comes knocking on Leon's door demanding the return of a compact dropped accidently in his pocket while they were dancing. But his wife (Dorothy Granger) has already discovered the compact and thinks Leon bought it as a gift for her. And then, to no great surprise, the redhead's jealous husband makes an appearance. Leon, before he is cleared of any hanky-panky with the redhead, nets two black eyes.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsGeorge O'HanlonPhyllis CoatesGeorge FordJoe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.Some variety now
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMax BaerMaxie RosenbloomJean WillesIn the third of four shorts in this series, two ex-prizefighters, Max Baer and Maxie Rosenbloom, are hired by an archaeologist, Professor Bentley, to guard a million dollars worth of antiques and relics in his home. During the night, each makes a play for the professor's secretary, Miss Pearson, who is working for a gang of crooks planning to rob the place. She slips them a mickey-finn but they come to soon enough to catch the crooks and save the relics.
- DirectorDel LordStarsEl BrendelMarion MartinWalter BaldwinA family of hillbillies mistake a radio announcer for their long-lost relative.
- DirectorDel LordStarsHugh HerbertDudley DickersonVernon DentHugh and his partner, Dudley are assigned to demolish a old mansion that's rumored to have a fortune hidden inside somewhere. When they arrive, they meet two fortune hunters who try to scare Hugh and Dudley away.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsAndy ClydeDick WesselLucile BrowneAndy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife.
- DirectorHarry EdwardsStarsEl BrendelTom KennedyMonte CollinsThree incompetents are hired to deliver a large crate (supposedly containing artifacts, but actually containing a live gangster) to a creepy old museum in the middle of the night, leading to various slapstick mishaps.
- DirectorDel LordStarsHugh HerbertChristine McIntyreEmmett VoganHugh Herbert, a very timid man, is the writer of a newspaper's "Advice to the Lovelorn" column using the pseudonym of "Aunt Fanny." Things start to pop when "woo-woo" Hugh is mistaken for the town's number one gangster.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsVince BarnettBilly GilbertBen HewlettA hotel clerk is told to not get familiar with the guest--particularly Mrs. Fish. Suffice it to say, he fails to follow instructions.
- DirectorHal YatesStarsScott ElliottSuzi CrandallArlene HarrisWhen her newlywed husband, Bob, mistakenly follows the diet prescribed for their dog and starts eating grass, Betty calls for a psychiatrist. To complicate their martial-bliss even more, Betty's parents comes for a visit and her father, a retired insurance salesman, forces an unneeded policy on Bob.
- DirectorHal YatesStarsGil LambCarol HughesClaire CarletonSlim Harris is proud of his new job as a canary salesman, and visits his fiancée, Peggy, at her office. While there , one of the birds flies into the office of a lawyer, A. J. Corbett, across the hall and, while attempting to catch the bird, Corbett hies Slim as a process server. His first assignment is to serve papers on Bertram Fairweather, owner of a Turkish-bath. Fairweather does not wish to be served, so there is a chase all around the salon.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceCharles AberA tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
- DirectorRay CozineStarsGeorge BurnsGracie AllenChester CluteGeorge registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanWhile hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.Some animated comedy shorts now- Bugs Bunny
- DirectorBurt GillettBill RobertsStarsWalt DisneyMarcellite GarnerEddie HoldenInspired by the Grimm's fairy tale, this classic 1938 Mickey cartoon finds our hero (voiced by Walt Disney) battling a hilariously huge "problem.Mickey Mouse
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattA house painter uses blue as his color of choice, while the Pink Panther has a different selection in mind.Like the live action comedy shorts, these aired in theatres before the movie.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancPaul JulianWile E. Coyote makes 11 disastrous attempts to catch the Road Runner.Road Runner
- DirectorBill RobertsStarsClarence NashFred ShieldsDonald is visiting South America, where he is first overcome by altitude sickness. He spends some time in the picturesque market. Then he take a llama up into the mountains, with exciting results.
- DirectorJack KinneyStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigJohn McLeishGoofy tries to get fit using home gym equipment, leading to a series of comedic mishaps. His clumsy efforts and the malfunctioning gear result in slapstick accidents, highlighting the humor in his unpredictable fitness journey.