Hal Yates

Gil Lamb finds his chief competitor helping his girl friend's father with some household work. When George tells Andy he can not install the garbage disposal, the daughter, in order to help Gil make an impression on Andy, urges Gil to do the job. The impression made, due to Gil's efforts, is not the impression expected.

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Slim Harris is proud of his new job as a canary salesman, and visits his fiancée, Peggy, at her office. While there , one of the birds flies into the office of a lawyer, A. J. Corbett, across the hall and, while attempting to catch the bird, Corbett hies Slim as a process server. His first assignment is to serve papers on Bertram Fairweather, owner of a Turkish-bath. Fairweather does not wish to be served, so there is a chase all around the salon.

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My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.

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Newlyweds Bob and Suzi have landlord troubles when Suzi's mother arrives on a visit and brings her dog and dogs are forbidden in their apartment house and they face eviction. Mother leaves and all is well. Bob's boss (Donald MacBride) tells Bob he will promote him to sales manager if Bob takes care of his unruly police dog while he is out of town. Nothing ventured, nothing gained thinks Bob until the irate landlord shows up again. But Bob's boss takes care of that problem by buying the property and saying Bob and Suzi can keep all the dogs they want.

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Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary. When he hears of the disappearance of a town millionaire's nephew, he sets out, disguised as a nurse, for the millionaire's mansion to solve the case

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Gil Lamb gets tangled up in a series of fast-paced, foolish misunderstandings and physical gags as he tries to navigate everyday tasks and romantic aspirations with Wanda McKay's character, only for his hyper-clumsy nature to turn simple situations into complete, chaotic disaster.

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When her newlywed husband, Bob, mistakenly follows the diet prescribed for their dog and starts eating grass, Betty calls for a psychiatrist. To complicate their martial-bliss even more, Betty's parents comes for a visit and her father, a retired insurance salesman, forces an unneeded policy on Bob.

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A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years.

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A newlywed actor returns from filming with his wife in a multitude of costumes. His nosy neighbors believe he has several different lovers and plan to do something about it.

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Comedy film short

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Leon manages to get a new house in the country cheap, and the whole family finds out that a mysterious death occurred in it. No one but Leon wants to live there, and so, a wacky plan is conceived to make Leon change his mind about moving.

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Leon is a gadget inventor, but when he uses them to help his son marry the banker's daughter, the results are per Leon's usual happenings. Once everything is cleared up, Leon and the banker shake hands and are enveloped in sparks from Leon's latest invention.

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Slim gets a job as a door-to-door salesman but soon winds up, through a case of mistaken identity, as the target of a very jealous husband.

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Leon (Leon Errol) keeps making solo trips to Buffalo and his wife Dorothy (Dorothy Granger) suspicions that some hanky-panky is involved. The next time Leon shuffles off to Buffalo, Dorothy follows on the same airplane disguised as a beautiful-but-poor widow from the south. Dorothy, in disguise, quickly gets more of Leon's attention on the plane than she ever got at home. The plane is grounded short of Buffalo, and the ever-gallant Leon steps up to take care of the poor widow's hotel bill, but has to register her as his wife in order to do so. Dorothy reveals who she is, but Leon wiggles out of the situation in his usual wormy fashion.

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Leon Errol needs to keep his guests apart at dinner.

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A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.

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To save expense, Leon Errol decides to get his daughter married. He picks a wealthy young man as the prospective groom, but his daughter's heart is set on somebody else. Leon pushes onward and rents an apartment for his daughter and chosen son-in-law, but his wife Dorothy thinks that he is setting up a love nest for another woman.

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Faced with a police raid ordered by Errol's wife, turned Reform League president, the manager of the local burleque theatre sends one of the girls over to get friendly with Errol.

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Florence (Florence Lake) has entered and won a radio contest sponsored by the company Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) works for, but the contest has a rule against employees or family members winning. Florence, determined to collect her prize, schemes to get Edgar fired.

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Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.

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Edgar has an argument with his next door neighbor concerning a spite fence the neighbor is building between the two properties, Then Edgar gets the idea that there is buried treasure on the neighbor's side of the fence.

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Errol's secretary's husband, who happens to be a fencing champ, believes there is something going on between them besides dictation.

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Against his wishes, Leon Errol is forced to buy a sweepstakes ticket

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Edgar, not willing to admit to Florence (Florence Lake) that they are broke, is forced by her to give Brother (Jack Rice) a $1000 check. Edgar, in an effort to get the money to cover the check, decides to pawn Florence's diamond bracelet. Edgar doesn't know that Brother (a real jewel) has already hocked the bracelet and substituted a paste one in its place.

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The millionairess aunt of Errol's previously married wife is coming to visit, and since the aunt is dead set against divorce, the wife prevails upon Errol to pose as the butler, and brings back her inebriated first husband to pose as her current mate.

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Leon needs to make a business deal with Mr. Marshall but can't unless his son and Marshall's daughter straighten out their romantic problems. Leon, probably based on his own past history and the assumption that an apple never falls far from the tree, suspects that his son is playing around with the girl in room 303. His investigation reveals that his son isn't, but the girl's boy friend thinks Leon is.

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Caught philandering (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple), Leon's wife (Dorothy Granger) announces (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple as she wasn't always his wife) that she is going to divorce him. His business partner hatches a scheme to cure Leon of his flirting with very pretty girl (and a few ugly ones) he meets, but the scheme has Leon faking a suicide.

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Leon's boss and his wife aren't getting along together, so Leon asks them to visit his home and observe how he and Mrs. Errol manage to keep the old knot tied. Before the couple arrives, Leon manages to get into a situation with a pretty, blonde neighbor, which leaves him having to introduce her as his wife when they do arrive. Neither Leon's wife, when she comes home, nor the neighbor's husband are too pleased with this arrangement.

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Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections, put him on a strenuous reducing program that nearly kills him.

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Edgar Kennedy, never the one to spend money on a project when he can do it himself and spend twice the money with disastrous results, forgoes hiring a builder to add a new room on the family abode, and contracts himself and family members to do the job. Edgar, doing any job is a recipe for failure, and when his ditsy wife, daffy brother-in-law and domineering mother-in-law are part of the construction crew, failure turns to catastrophe.

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Comedic mixups are inevitable when Leon Errol borrows a car.

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Rita informs Leon that, as a lark, he stole a valuable necklace at a dinner party the night before and she will return it, but Leon remembers nothing about it. Just then, as Leon is taking the necklace out of his pocket, Mrs. Errol arrives with Barbara, her cousin and Barbara's fiancee. Mrs. Errol decides to give the necklace to Barbara as a wedding present. Leon tells Rita he will retrieve the necklace and return it to her that night. That Leon ends up getting chased by a guard dog and accused by Dorothy of philandering and Rita is a crook is a foregone conclusion.

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Leon Errol's wife blames him for his twin brother's mishaps.

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Leon, sight unseen, rents a room in his house to a professor, who turns out to be a beautiful blonde. This unforseen stroke of good fortune, to Leon's way of thinking, only lasts until his wife (Dorothy Granger) sees the "Professor." Harmony is restored, following a period of vase throwing, when the professor moves out.

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Edgar's brother-in-law persuades Edgar to indulge in a little betting at the race track, and Edgar loses $900. While entertaining a banker to get on a loan, for a supposed worthy purpose, the bookie's henchman shows up demanding to be paid.

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A beautiful redhead (Myrna Dell) comes knocking on Leon's door demanding the return of a compact dropped accidently in his pocket while they were dancing. But his wife (Dorothy Granger) has already discovered the compact and thinks Leon bought it as a gift for her. And then, to no great surprise, the redhead's jealous husband makes an appearance. Leon, before he is cleared of any hanky-panky with the redhead, nets two black eyes.

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When her newlywed husband, Bob, mistakenly follows the diet prescribed for their dog and starts eating grass, Betty calls for a psychiatrist. To complicate their martial-bliss even more, Betty's parents comes for a visit and her father, a retired insurance salesman, forces an unneeded policy on Bob.

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A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years.

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A newlywed actor returns from filming with his wife in a multitude of costumes. His nosy neighbors believe he has several different lovers and plan to do something about it.

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A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.

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Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.

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Caught philandering (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple), Leon's wife (Dorothy Granger) announces (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple as she wasn't always his wife) that she is going to divorce him. His business partner hatches a scheme to cure Leon of his flirting with very pretty girl (and a few ugly ones) he meets, but the scheme has Leon faking a suicide.

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