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Come Clean (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Come Clean' is a 1931 American pre-Code short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James W. Horne and produced by Hal Roach.
Story
Mr. and Mrs. Hardy wish to have a quiet night in their apartment, but are interrupted when Mr. and Mrs. Laurel pay a visit. After Stan says he'd like to go for ice cream, he and Ollie go out to fetch some. On their way back home, they prevent a shrewish woman named Kate from committing suicide. Kate is ungrateful and makes threats against the boys unless they look after her. They spend a frantic evening trying to keep her out of sight from their wives. Kate is eventually hidden in the Hardys' bathroom with Stan.
Kate is shortly exposed and arrested as a wanted criminal by a policeman summoned by the apartment-block doorman, and Stan is informed that he is entitled to a $1,000 reward for her capture. When Stan suggests spending the money on ice cream, Ollie washes him down the bath plughole.
Cast
* Stan Laurel Stan
* Oliver Hardy Ollie
* Gertrude Astor Mrs. Hardy
* Linda Loredo Mrs. Laurel
* Mae Busch Kate
* Charlie Hall Ice cream vendor
* Tiny Sandford Doorman
Production notes
* The opening scene was a reworking from their silent film 'Should Married Men Go Home?'
* Linda Loredo, who plays Mrs. Laurel, had appeared in several foreign-language versions of several previous short films. This was her only part in an English language Laurel and Hardy film. She died on August 11, 1931, a month before the film's release.
* The film was later reworked into the plot of the 1942 film 'Brooklyn Orchid' (a Hal Roach's Streamliner), starring William Bendix and Joe Sawyer.
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