Meet the Baron
1933 film by Walter Lang
- October 20, 1933 (1933-10-20)
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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 title of the film refers to Pearl's character of Baron Munchhausen, which he made famous on his radio show.[1]
Plot
A couple of bunglers (Jimmy Durante and Jack Pearl) are abandoned in the jungles of Africa by Baron Munchausen. A rescue team mistake Pearl for the missing Baron, and take 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 and meets three crazy janitors (The Three Stooges), and faces exposure as a fraud.
Cast
- Jack Pearl as The Famous Baron Munchausen of the Air
- Jimmy Durante as Joe McGoo – the Favorite "Schnozzle" of the Screen
- ZaSu Pitts as Zasu, Upstairs Maid
- Ted Healy as Head Janitor
- Edna May Oliver as Dean Primrose
- The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Girls as Dancers
- Henry Kolker as Baron Munchausen
- William B. Davidson as General Broadcasting Representative
- Moe Howard as Janitor
- Larry Fine as Janitor
- Jerry Howard as Janitor
- Ben Bard as Charley Montague
- Claude King as Explorer
Reception
The film was a box-office disappointment for MGM.[2]
"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.
See also
References
External links
- Meet the Baron at IMDb
- Meet the Baron at the TCM Movie Database
- Meet the Baron at ThreeStooges.net
- Shower scene in Meet the Baron on YouTube
- Pearl as the Baron on YouTube
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Films directed by Walter Lang
- The Red Kimono (1925)
- The Earth Woman (1926)
- The Golden Web (1926)
- Money to Burn (1926)
- The Ladybird (1927)
- The Satin Woman (1927)
- Sally in Our Alley (1927)
- By Whose Hand? (1927)
- The College Hero (1927)
- The Night Flyer (1928)
- The Desert Bride (1928)
- The Spirit of Youth (1929)
- Hello Sister (1930)
- Cock o' the Walk (1930)
- The Big Fight (1930)
- The Costello Case (1930)
- Brothers (1930)
- Command Performance (1931)
- Hell Bound (1931)
- Women Go on Forever (1931)
- No More Orchids (1932)
- The Warrior's Husband (1933)
- Meet the Baron (1933)
- Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
- The Party's Over (1934)
- The Mighty Barnum (1934)
- Carnival (1935)
- Hooray for Love (1935)
- Love Before Breakfast (1936)
- Top of the Town (1937)
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
- Second Honeymoon (1937)
- The Baroness and the Butler (1938)
- I'll Give a Million (1938)
- The Little Princess (1939)
- Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
- The Blue Bird (1940)
- Star Dust (1940)
- The Great Profile (1940)
- Tin Pan Alley (1940)
- Moon Over Miami (1941)
- Week-End in Havana (1941)
- Song of the Islands (1942)
- The Magnificent Dope (1942)
- Coney Island (1943)
- Greenwich Village (1944)
- State Fair (1945)
- Claudia and David (1946)
- Sentimental Journey (1946)
- Mother Wore Tights (1947)
- Sitting Pretty (1948)
- When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
- You're My Everything (1949)
- Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
- The Jackpot (1950)
- On the Riviera (1951)
- With a Song in My Heart (1952)
- Call Me Madam (1953)
- There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
- The King and I (1956)
- Desk Set (1957)
- But Not for Me (1959)
- Can-Can (1960)
- The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
- Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)
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