Movie Maniacs

Movie Maniacs

SCREAM FUN WITH THE HOLLYWOODEN HEADS!

NR 1936 · 18 min · ★ 6.0 · Comedy

The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.

Directed by Del Lord · Written by Felix Adler

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Cast

Moe Howard Moe
Larry Fine Larry
Curly Howard Curly
Mildred Harris Leading Lady
Kenneth Harlan Leading man
Bud Jamison Fuller Rath
Harry Semels Cecil Z. Swinehardt - Director
John Barrymore Photograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin Guard (uncredited)
Lew Davis Studio Employee (uncredited)
Charles Dorety Studio Employee (uncredited)
George Gray Studio Employee (uncredited)

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