The Stolen Jools

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 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 speaker would appear after the film to ask the audience for donations. Being made for charity, the film has an unusually large cast of actors who volunteered to appear gratis. Studios represented included Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, MGM, and Hal Roach Studios.

This film was retitled The Slippery Pearls in the United Kingdom. In spite of copies being sold by Blackhawk Films throughout the 1970's on 16mm and Super 8 stock the film was thought by some to have been lost until a print was found in the UK in the 1990s. Another print was later found in the US under the alternative title.

Plot
At the "Screen Stars Annual Ball", Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen. The police must find them and return them to her.

Cast
The original film did not include credits. Blackhawk Films later added credits to identify the actors in the film by scene, stating "a good cast is worth introducing."


 * 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
 * Charles "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)
 * Mitzi Green solves the mystery.


 * (Uncredited):
 * Joe E. Brown
 * Robert Ames
 * Bert Lytell