The Stolen Jools
Cast in order of appearance
Jewel robbery in Hollywood ( English: The Stolen Jools ) is an American short film comedy thriller by William C. McGann from the year 1931.
Action
At the annual ball of the film stars Norma Shearer's jewels were stolen. The police is asked by Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone at gunpoint for clarification, as the jewels " were stolen them." After an odyssey of the present surveys on the ball gewesenen movie stars for the jewels revealed Mitzi Green, that she has seen, as Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone packed them in a box, and suspected that something is not right. From honesty they took her to him.
Background
The film was produced by Blackhawk Films in cooperation with Chesterfield Cigarettes made for charitable purposes. The film was Chesterfields contribution to support the work of the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium. As a Production Supervisor E. K. needle worked. The film had on April 4, 1931 premiere. After the performance, the audience was asked for donations for the charity.
In the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the film under the name The Slippery Pearls was known; the title card has title of the film The Stolen Jools.
Occupation
The "all- star cast " in the order of appearance:
- At the police station: Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Jack Hill, J. Farrell MacDonald, Edward G. Robinson, George E. Stone
- The cops: Eddie Kane, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- At the house of the victim: Our Gang ( Farina, Stymie, Chubby, Mary Ann Jackson, Shirley Jean Rickert, Echo, Wheezer, Pete the Pup ), Polly Moran, Norma Shearer, Hedda Hopper
- Tete -a- Tete: Joan Crawford, William Haines
- In the swing: Dorothy Lee
- At breakfast: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, El Brendel
- When Lunch: Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey
- In the Studio: Richard Dix, Claudia Dell, Lowell Sherman
- The newspaper people: Eugene Pallette, Stuart Erwin, Skeets Gallagher, Gary Cooper, Wynne Gibson, Buddy Rogers
- The Private Investigator: Maurice Chevalier
- Under the Tree: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Richard Barthelmess, Charles Butterworth
- Couple at home: Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay
- In a Movie Scene: Jack Oakie and Fay Wray
- Man with beard: Joe E. Brown ( without mention uncredited)
- Projectionist: George " Gabby " Hayes
- The Midgets: Little Billy
- Mitzi Green solves the mystery