Mae Busch

After getting booted from their circus sideshow, the ventriloquist, dwarf, and strongman forge an “unholy” criminal alliance to strike it rich.

When his brother becomes implicated in multiple killings, a gambler joins the Texas Rangers in hopes of finding the true perpetrators of the crimes.

After testifying against a murderer who promises vengeance, two witnesses decide to leave town. The plot echoed DO DETECTIVES THINK? but was timely because the biggest story in America then was the John Dillinger manhunt. The initial working title was PUBLIC ENEMIES. Directed by Charley Rogers. With Walter Long and Mae Busch.

Returning from the ice cream parlor, devoted husbands rescue a suicidal woman of dubious morals from drowning (Mae Busch), then cannot escape her. With its black comedy inspired by Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS, the story also draws upon familiar routines from the team’s other comedies. The parody of connubial bliss is a highlight, as is the climactic disappearance of Mr. Laurel, of which Mr. Hardy explains memorably, “He’s gone to the beach. ” It was remade by Roach a decade later as a “streamliner” titled BROOKLYN ORCHID. Directed by James W. Horne. With Linda Loredo and Gertrude Astor.

Greeting card salesmen help a customer who hopes to arouse the jealousy of her husband, a French artist who’s been neglecting her. This short was a reworking of the early Laurel & Hardy silent, SLIPPING WIVES. One of the gag writers was future Warner Bros. cartoon director Frank Tashlin, who eventually piloted eight movies with Jerry Lewis. Directed by Charley Rogers. With dastardly, fire-and-brimstone Charles Middleton, ever-popular Mae Busch, and perpetually plastered Arthur Housman. He’d recently appeared in a superior Todd-Kelly short, DONE IN OIL, shot on the same apartment set, decorated with the same polar bear skin borrowed from Roach’s office and also the same painting of Patsy Kelly!

Two hapless husbands ditch their wives to party at a lodge convention, only to land in hot water when their sneaky plan backfires.

After too much high living, the fellows rent a trailer and take to the mountains for gout-ridden Hardy’s health. There they unwittingly drink from well water laced with homemade liquor. According to Billy Gilbert, who plays the doctor prescribing a mountain-rest cure, “the fellows” is how everyone at the studio referred to the Laurel & Hardy characters. Aficionados today are still acting out the memorable, musical “pom-pom” business. The “outdoors” set was built on Stage 2 in only 16 hours after a planned scenic exterior location at the mouth of the Santa Ynez Canyon presented unfavorable weather conditions. Directed by Charley Rogers. With Charlie Hall and Mae Busch as the sullen motorist and his stranded wife.

The souls in question are silver-screen hopefuls in this witty, insightful glimpse at the early movie business. Feared lost for decades, it includes unique working cameos of director Erich von Stroheim and a non-Tramp Charlie Chaplin, and features starlet Eleanor Boardman, the "Cinderella of Hollywood" whose rags-to-riches story echoed her character's. Escaping from a train journey with her sinister new husband, Mem Steddon (Boardman) crawls across the California desert and spies her salvation: an Arab sheik riding a camel! The location movie crew brings Mem to Tinseltown, where bit parts and acting lessons lead her to starring roles - and a fiery finale with her murderous spouse Lew Cody). If you like classic Hollywood, you'll love this picture, full of carefully observed detail, warmth and plenty of soul.

In a literal reworking of LOVE ’EM AND WEEP, Mr. Hardy plays an important businessman. Having made his fortune in fertilizer, Hardy is well qualified to run for mayor, but is blackmailed by a venomous old flame from his past. Directed by James W. Horne. With Mae Busch as the gold-digger, Thelma Todd as Mrs. Hardy (she was originally slated to enact the vamp according to the shooting script), and James Finlayson as the opportunistic butler, a role he exchanged with Hardy for this remake.

A reporter sets out to prove that the woman who rejected his marriage proposal is a murderer. Meanwhile, she's posing as her missing twin sister.

A rash of fox farm thefts and a booming pelt market sends a federal investigator and his trusty German Shepherd to track down the culprits.

A phony spiritualist struggles to dodge an investigative reporter while working to swindle a wealthy heiress out of her banker father’s money.

After his release from prison, a prohibition gangster quickly finds trouble again when he rejoins the mob and is pinned for the murder of a cop.