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6.6George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
100% Service
1931
6.6George Burns tries to buy a tie in a department store filled with assorted kooks.
Fit to Be Tied
1930
5.0George is distracted from buying a statue by scatterbrained Gracie.
The Antique Shop
1931
Persuading his newlywed friends, Jerry and Marian Townsend, to take him along on their European honeymoon as guide, Lester Aloysius Sebastian Brown launches the threesome on a series of comic adventures, beginning in a Paris nightclub, where Lester is roughed up by two husbands who mistake his companions for their wives. Then on to Switzerland and a forced landing near a wedding festival; to Cairo, where Jerry is abducted and found by Marian in a harem; and back to New York.
Leave It to Lester
1930
9.0George is mistaken for an accident victim and taken to the hospital. After his needless operation, he meets Nurse Gracie, who adds insanity to injury.
Oh, My Operation
1931
The year is 1950. Food comes in the form of little pills - such as a pill for eggs and another pill for bacon. Coffee comes in the form of a spritz from a spray bottle, administered by a maid. One day Haley opens the newspaper to discover that a 20th amendment has been passed, "compelling every male citizen to have as many wives as he can support...because too many unmarried men are leaving this country due to the enforcement of Prohibition, and in order to protect the American home and the country's future population." So Haley immediately opens his little black book and before you know it has gathered a whole harem, one wife for each day of the week.
The 20th Amendment
1930
Behind the camera
6.6George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
100% Service
1931
6.6George Burns tries to buy a tie in a department store filled with assorted kooks.
Fit to Be Tied
1930
5.0George is distracted from buying a statue by scatterbrained Gracie.
The Antique Shop
1931
Persuading his newlywed friends, Jerry and Marian Townsend, to take him along on their European honeymoon as guide, Lester Aloysius Sebastian Brown launches the threesome on a series of comic adventures, beginning in a Paris nightclub, where Lester is roughed up by two husbands who mistake his companions for their wives. Then on to Switzerland and a forced landing near a wedding festival; to Cairo, where Jerry is abducted and found by Marian in a harem; and back to New York.
Leave It to Lester
1930
9.0George is mistaken for an accident victim and taken to the hospital. After his needless operation, he meets Nurse Gracie, who adds insanity to injury.
Oh, My Operation
1931
The year is 1950. Food comes in the form of little pills - such as a pill for eggs and another pill for bacon. Coffee comes in the form of a spritz from a spray bottle, administered by a maid. One day Haley opens the newspaper to discover that a 20th amendment has been passed, "compelling every male citizen to have as many wives as he can support...because too many unmarried men are leaving this country due to the enforcement of Prohibition, and in order to protect the American home and the country's future population." So Haley immediately opens his little black book and before you know it has gathered a whole harem, one wife for each day of the week.
The 20th Amendment
1930
Frances Williams, chairman of a single girls club with a rapidly decreasing number of members explains her relations to men of the club.
Let's Stay Single
1930
Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music.
The Musical Doctor
1932
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Que Viene Papa!
1931
Harry Richman stars in this bizarre comedy musical short. I say bizarre because he is a door-to-door broom salesman who sings to make sales. However, his potential sale (June O'Dea) is not an easy one, as she complains that the previous door-to-door salesman was more impressive...so Richman brings out a trio to accompany him. But this lady is no pushover...so what will he need to do to clinch the sale?
Clinching a Sale
1930
A bumbling burglar's assistant botches a job for his boss.
Two A.M.
1931
George is a shiftless father and husband, who lets his wife and old mother in law do all the work at his tumbledown farm, preferring to sleep under a tree. His wife finally threatens him into finding a job moving cartons in a warehouse.
Ol' King Cotton
1930
An itinerant medicine salesman sells joy in bottles with the aid of his band.
The Happiness Remedy
1931
