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Meet the Baron
Meet the Baron is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, ZaSu Pitts, Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The film's title refers to Pearl's character of Baron Munchhausen, which he made famous on his radio show.
Baron Munchausen has abandoned a couple of bunglers (Jimmy Durante and Jack Pearl) in the jungles of Africa. A rescue team mistakes Pearl for the missing Baron and takes the two of them back to America, where they receive a hero's welcome.
The phony Baron is invited to speak at Cuddle College, run by Dean Primrose (Edna May Oliver). There, he falls for ZaSu Pitts, meets three crazy janitors (The Three Stooges), and faces exposure as a fraud.
The film was a box-office disappointment for MGM.
"Clean as a Whistle," a musical number risqué for its time, which involves a group of women in a shower, was later featured in the 1994 MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III as an example of Pre-Code Hollywood.
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Meet the Baron
Meet the Baron is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, ZaSu Pitts, Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The film's title refers to Pearl's character of Baron Munchhausen, which he made famous on his radio show.
Baron Munchausen has abandoned a couple of bunglers (Jimmy Durante and Jack Pearl) in the jungles of Africa. A rescue team mistakes Pearl for the missing Baron and takes the two of them back to America, where they receive a hero's welcome.
The phony Baron is invited to speak at Cuddle College, run by Dean Primrose (Edna May Oliver). There, he falls for ZaSu Pitts, meets three crazy janitors (The Three Stooges), and faces exposure as a fraud.
The film was a box-office disappointment for MGM.
"Clean as a Whistle," a musical number risqué for its time, which involves a group of women in a shower, was later featured in the 1994 MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III as an example of Pre-Code Hollywood.