From Wikipedia:
"The Stolen Jools (1931) is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by the 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 known by the name The Slippery Pearls in the United Kingdom, and was thought to be a lost film until a print was found in the UK in the 1990s. Another print was later found in the US under the alternate title."
What a cast list, as noted in the closing credits:
At the Police Station
Wallace Beery
Buster Keaton
Jack Hill
J. Farrell MacDonald
Edward G. Robinson
George E. Stone
The Law
Eddie Kane
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
At the Victim’s House
Our Gang: (Farina, Stymie, Chubby, Mary Ann Jackson, Shirley Jean Rickert, Echo, Wheezer, Pete the Pup)
Polly Moran
Norma Shearer
Hedda Hopper
Tete-a-Tete
Joan Crawford
William Haines
On the Porch Swing
Dorothy Lee
At Breakfast
Victor McLaglen
Edmund Lowe
El Brendel
In the Hotel
Charlie Murray
George Sidney
Winnie Lightner
Fifi D'Orsay
Warner Baxter
Irene Dunne
At Lunch
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey
In the Movie Studio
Richard Dix
Claudia Dell
Lowell Sherman
The Newsmen
Eugene Pallette
Stuart Erwin
Skeets Gallagher
Gary Cooper
Wynne Gibson
Buddy Rogers
The Detective
Maurice Chevalier
Under the Tree
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Loretta Young
Richard Barthelmess
Charles Butterworth
Couples at Home
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon
Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay
In a Movie Scene
Jack Oakie and Fay Wray
Projectionist
George "Gabby" Hayes
The Midget
Little Billy (Billy Rhodes)
Mystery solved by
Mitzi Green
(Uncredited)
Joe E. Brown
Robert Ames
Bert Lytell
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