>> I have seen MEET THE BARON on TCM many years ago and have a VHS of it.
>> It actually stars Jimmy Durante, who shares a few scenes with Ted
>> Healy, Howard, Fine and Howard, who play inept plumbers at an all girl
>> school. Jack Pearl who plays the Baron, I think it's the same guy who
>> plays a baron in HOLLYWOOD PARTY but don't know for sure.

>
> It is. Jack Pearl's "Baron Munchausen" character was very popular on radio
> in the early 1930s. His catch-phrase was
> "Vass you dere, Sharlie?" He faded from stardom early on, but I remember
> seeing him reprise the Baron character on
> TV's JACKIE GLEASON SHOW in the early 1960s. (Incidentally, it was because
> MEET THE BARON and Ed Wynn's
> THE CHIEF performed so poorly at the box office that David O. Selznick
> refused to ever again be assigned to any MGM film starring a radio comedian.
> He wasn't--unless you count soon-to-be radio comedian W.C. Fields in 1935's
> DAVID COPPERFIELD).
>
> In the early scenes you will recognise some familiar jokes the Three

>> Stooges will later use over and over in their Columbia shorts like,
>> "Where are the tools?" "What tools?" "The tool's we've been using for
>> the past thirty years" "Ooooh, those tools!".

>
> I'd have to check my own VHS copy, but I think they also sing a bit of
> "You'll Never Know Just What Tears Are", which
> they also performed (memorably) in SOUP TO NUTS.
> It's interesting that Curly plays a cross-eyed "tough mug" character in MEET
> THE BARON. He hadn't quite morphed into the
> "real" Curly yet.
>
> --Hal E