Pre Code Hollywood Season: FD Cinematheque

The Stolen Jools AKA The Slippery Pearls (1931)

Directors: 

William C. McGannJohn G. Adolfi…(uncredited)Thomas Atkins…(uncredited)Harold S. Bucquet…(uncredited)Victor Heerman…(uncredited)Russell Mack…(uncredited)

Cast: 

	Wallace Beery	…	Police Sergeant
	Buster Keaton	…	Policeman
	Jack Hill	…	Policeman
	J. Farrell MacDonald	…	Policeman
	Edward G. Robinson	…	Gangster (as Edward Robinson)
	George E. Stone	…	Gangster
	Eddie Kane	…	Inspector Kane
	Stan Laurel	…	Policeman
	Oliver Hardy	…	Police Driver
	Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins	…	Farina (as Farina)
	Matthew ‘Stymie’ Beard	…	Stymie (as Stymie)
	Norman ‘Chubby’ Chaney	…	Chubby (as Chubby)
	Mary Ann Jackson	…	Mary Ann Jackson
	Shirley Jean Rickert	…	Shirley Jean
	Dorothy DeBorba	…	Echo (as Echo)
	Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins	…	Wheezer (as Wheezer)
	Pete the Dog	…	Pete (as Pete the Pup)
	Polly Moran	…	Norma Shearer’s Maid
	Norma Shearer	…	Owner of Stolen Jewels
	Hedda Hopper	…	Hedda – Norma’s Friend
	Joan Crawford	…	Joan Crawford
	William Haines	…	Bill Haines
	Dorothy Lee	…	Autograph Signer
	Victor McLaglen	…	Sergeant Flagg
	Edmund Lowe	…	Sergeant Quirt
	El Brendel	…	Swedish Waiter
	Charles Murray	…	Kelly (as Charlie Murray)
	George Sidney	…	Cohen
	Winnie Lightner	…	Winnie
	Fifi D’Orsay	…	Fifi D’Orsay
	Warner Baxter	…	Cisco Kid Character
	Irene Dunne	…	Irene Dunne
	Bert Wheeler	…	Bert Wheeler
	Robert Woolsey	…	Robert Woolsey
	Richard Dix	…	Richard Dix
	Claudia Dell	…	Claudia Dell
	Lowell Sherman	…	Movie Director
	Eugene Pallette	…	Reporter
	Stuart Erwin	…	Reporter
	Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher	…	Reporter (as Skeets Gallagher)
	Gary Cooper	…	Newspaper Editor
	Wynne Gibson	…	Reporter
	Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers	…	‘Buddy’ Rogers (as Buddy Rogers)
	Maurice Chevalier	…	Maurice Chevalier
	Douglas Fairbanks Jr.	…	Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
	Loretta Young	…	Loretta Young
	Richard Barthelmess	…	Richard Barthelmess
	Charles Butterworth	…	Claiming to Be Louise Frazenda
	Bebe Daniels	…	Mrs. Ben Lyon
	Ben Lyon	…	Ben Lyon
	Barbara Stanwyck	…	Mrs. Frank Fay
	Frank Fay	…	Frank Fay
	Jack Oakie	…	Jack Oakie
	Fay Wray	…	Fay Wray
	George ‘Gabby’ Hayes	…	Projectionist (as George Hayes)
	‘Little Billy’ Rhodes	…	Film Delivery Boy (as Little Billy)
	Mitzi Green	…	Little Mitzi – Mystery Solver
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Joe E. Brown	…	Robbery Suspect
	Robert Ames	…	Robert Ames (uncredited)
	Bert Lytell	…	Bert Lytell (uncredited)

The Stolen Jools (1931) is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by film stars of the day. The stars appeared in the film, distributed by Paramount Pictures, to raise funds for the National Vaudeville Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium. The UCLA Film and Television Archive entry for this film says—as do the credits—that the film was co-sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes to support the “fine work” of the NVA sanitarium.

When the film was shown in theaters in 1931, a person would appear after the film to ask the audience for donations. Because the film was made for charity, it has an unusually large cast of actors from various studios in addition to Paramount, such as Warner Bros., RKO, MGM, and Hal Roach Studios.

This film was retitled The Slippery Pearls in the United Kingdom. It was thought to have been lost until a print was found in the UK in the 1990s. Another print was later found in the US under the alternative title.

Plot

At the “Screen Stars Annual Ball”, Norma Shearer‘s jewels are stolen. The police must find them and return them to her.

Cast, as listed in end credits

See also

• List of rediscovered films

References

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