The Stolen Jools
| The Stolen Jools | |
|---|---|
George E. Stone in The Stolen Jools | |
| Directed by | William C. McGann |
| Written by | Al Boasberg (uncredited) Edwin J. Burke (uncredited) Arthur Caesar (uncredited) George Arthur Gray (uncredited) Howard J. Green (uncredited) Harrison Greene (uncredited) Percy Heath (uncredited) Carlisle Jones (uncredited) Harry Myers (uncredited) E.K. Nadel (uncredited) Edgar Allan Woolf (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Pat Casey |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Buster Keaton Edward G. Robinson Joan Crawford Fay Wray Gary Cooper |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Stolen Jools is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy short produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by film stars and featured players of the day. The film was 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.
The film, being made for charity, has an unusually large cast of actors who volunteered to appear. Studios represented included Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, MGM, Fox Film, and Hal Roach.
It was considered a lost film until home-movie distributor Blackhawk Films offered reprints to the collectors' market in the 1970s. Another print was found in the United Kingdom, under the British release title The Slippery Pearls, in the 1990s.