Great idea, Dunrobin. Once again you demonstrate you are coiteny a venerable knucklehead!
I noticed two things about Grace Goodall in watching the new shorts:
a)
'Hoi Polloi' - she's listed as 'Mrs. Rich' instead of 'Mrs. Richmond', the wife of Professor RichmondFixedb)
'Pop Goes the Easel' - She's not currently listed in the cast for this short. Grace plays the last rich woman who rides up in search of a social secretary.AddedThe IMDB notes the following about Grace Goodall's performances, giving a sense of how ubiquitous she was amongst many comic royalty of hollywood:
1) 'Pardon My Stotch' and 'Hoi Polloi' (IMDB also incorrectly lists her as playing as 'Mrs. Rich')
2) Bit player in many popular pictures of the early 30's - such as early potboilers like 'What Price Hollywood? (one of George Cukor's earliest masterpieces) and 'Ladies of the Big House' as well as many screwball comedies in the mid 1930s, such as the Carole Lombard/Fred MacMurray/John Barrymore screwball comedy 'True Confession' (1937 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029695/), and the all-star, all-women classic drawing room comedy, 'The Women' (1939 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032143/). She was also in the later Garbo vehicle, 'Conquest' (1937 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028739/).
3) Laurel & Hardy
'Thicker Than Water' (1935 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027089/)
This is L&H's last short. A bit lackluster, but still with a nice performance by Jimmy Finlayson - and a wonderful round-robin patter whereby the Hardy's tenant, Mr. Laurel, explains why he had not given furniture store owner, Finlayson, the payment for the furniture he has now showed up to re-possess, because he'd turned around and used the money to pay Mr. Hardy that month's rent.
4) Charley Chase
'The Four Star Boarder' (1935 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026379/), 'Okay Toots!' (1935 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026806/), 'Ankles Away' (1938 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144765/)
Two late Charley Chase shorts right at the time when Chase was coming over to produce and direct Stooges shorts. 'Okay Toots!' also includes Hal Roach player Charlie Hall and academy award winner Hattie McDaniel, who - I'd not realized - is described at IMDB as the first African American woman to have sung on radio (1915). Apparently she began her career as a band singer. In 'Ankles Away', Grace Goodall co-stared with a virtual who's who of Stooge bit players such as Gino Corrado, Symona Boniface, Vernon Dent, Bess Flowers, as well as venerable comic character actor John T. Murray.
5) Andy Clyde
'I'm a Father' (1935 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162385/)
An Andy Clyde short that includes Geneva Mitchell (
http://threestooges.net/index.php?main=/forums/index.php), 'Queenie' from 'Restless Knights' and the dance instructor from 'Hoi Polloi', as well as the venerable Queen of the Bit Players, Bess Flowers and the other venerable bit player, Mary Gordon
6) Thelma Todd/Patsy Kelly
'Top Flat' (1935 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027124/) - The second to last Thelma Todd/Patsy Kelly short before Thelma Todd was murdered.
'Pan Handlers' (1936 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028081/)
7) W.C. Fields
'Poppy' (1936 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028120/)
'You Can't Cheat an Honest Man' (1939 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032152/)
Will Rogers
She had bit roles in several of Will Rogers most well known films - e.g., 'Handy Andy', 'Judge Priest', 'Steamboat Around the Bend' (Rogers 2nd to last before his fatal plane crash in Alaska)
9) Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland
'Wives Never Know' (1936 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028514/)
10) Bert Lahr
'Merry Go Round of 1938' (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029234/)
11) Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye
'$1000 a Touchdown' (1939 -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031011/)
