Jewel heist in Hollywood
Movie | |
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German title | Jewel heist in Hollywood |
Original title | The Stolen Jools |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1931 |
length | 19 minutes |
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Director | William C. McGann |
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Jewel robbery in Hollywood (English title The Stolen Jools ) is an American short film - comedy thriller by William C. McGann from the year 1931st
action
At the annual Movie Stars Ball, Norma Shearer's jewels were stolen. The police are asked at gunpoint by Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone to clarify that the jewels "have been stolen from them." After an odyssey of interviewing the movie stars at the ball about the jewels, Mitzi Green reveals that she saw Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone put it in a box and suspected something was wrong . Out of honesty, she took it.
background
The film was produced by Blackhawk Films in cooperation with Chesterfield Cigarettes for charity . The film was Chesterfield's contribution to the work of the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium . As a Production Supervisor was EK needle operates. The film premiered on April 4, 1931. After the performance, the audience was asked for donations for the charitable institution.
In the UK the film was known as The Slippery Pearls ; the title card has the film title The Stolen Jools .
occupation
The star cast in the order of their appearance:
- At the police station: Wallace Beery , Buster Keaton , Jack Hill , J. Farrell MacDonald , Edward G. Robinson , George E. Stone
- The Kripo: Eddie Kane , Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- At the victim's house: Our Gang ( Farina , Stymie , Chubby , Mary Ann Jackson , Shirley Jean Rickert , Dorothy , Wheezer , Pete the Pup ), also Polly Moran , Norma Shearer , Hedda Hopper
- Tete-a-Tete: Joan Crawford , William Haines
- On the porch swing : Dorothy Lee
- At breakfast: Victor McLaglen , Edmund Lowe , El Brendel
- In the hotel: Charlie Murray , George Sidney , Winnie Lightner , Fifi D'Orsay , Warner Baxter , Irene Dunne
- At lunch: Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey
- In the film studio: Richard Dix , Claudia Dell , Lowell Sherman
- The newspaper people: Eugene Pallette , Stuart Erwin , Skeets Gallagher , Gary Cooper , Wynne Gibson , Buddy Rogers
- The private detective: Maurice Chevalier
- Under the tree: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , Loretta Young , Richard Barthelmess , Charles Butterworth
- Couples at home: Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon , Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay
- In a movie scene: Jack Oakie and Fay Wray
- Bearded Man: Joe E. Brown (uncredited)
- Projectionist: George "Gabby" Hayes
- The short stature: Little Billy
- The puzzle solver: Mitzi Green
Web links
- Jewel robbery in Hollywood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Stolen Jools at Internet Archive