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For the record, I pulled “Extra! Extra!” (1931), another RKO Frank McHugh comedy short, b/c the sound was noticeably more wonky than the other films on the playlist. You can check it out for free here (https://youtu.be/fol8Tu3EE30?si=Br4VrboynDaElZA5)
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For the record, I pulled “Extra! Extra!” (1931), another RKO Frank McHugh comedy short, b/c the sound was noticeably more wonky than the other films on the playlist. You can check it out for free here (https://youtu.be/fol8Tu3EE30?si=Br4VrboynDaElZA5)
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #ExtraExtra #FrankMcHugh

For the record, I pulled “Extra! Extra!” (1931), another RKO Frank McHugh comedy short, b/c the sound was noticeably more wonky than the other films on the playlist. You can check it out for free here (https://youtu.be/fol8Tu3EE30?si=Br4VrboynDaElZA5)
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #ExtraExtra #FrankMcHugh

Our final comedy short is “The Wide Open Spaces” (1931) (https://youtu.be/cG7XRyUp0QI?si=8ATbI5ydT9tT_xBC) which was another film Frank McHugh made with “The Masquers Club of Hollywood”.. again, sorry about Richard Carlyle as the waking nightmare that is “The Masquer”
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Back to Frank McHugh? BACK TO FRANK MCHUGH!. “The Great Junction Hotel” (1931) (https://youtu.be/tngru2K-tOk?si=9lZHu-YmgktNSqlm) was one of the short comedies Frank McHugh made with “The Masquers Club of Hollywood”
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For the record: Frank McHugh isn’t in “The Stolen Jools” (1931) but it was produced by the private social club “The Masquers Club of Hollywood” , who would also play a hand in making a few comedy shorts starring Frank McHugh in the early 1930s
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This print of “The Hot Spot” (1931) was restored from the only known 16mm copy
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<5mins in and we’ve hit most of the Frank McHugh comedy tropes:

Playing a reporter or clergy or general degenerate ✅
The patented Frank McHugh Laugh™️✅
Kind of a dope ✅
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First up is “The Hot Spot” (1931) (https://youtu.be/TJerjayJnJ0?si=p5W48ZomKRY41dCx) which was one of a series of comedy shorts Frank McHugh made for RKO in the early 1930s
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #TheHotSpot #FrankMcHugh #PreCode

In the first dozen or so years of his film career (1930-mid1940s), Frank McHugh made approximately 90 feature films! His frequent co-stars & friends William Powell & Aline MacMahon would rival that with 60 & 40 films, respectively, during that time
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In the first dozen or so years of his film career (1930-mid1940s), Frank McHugh made approximately 90 feature films! His frequent co-stars & friends William Powell & Aline MacMahon would rival that with 60 & 40 films, respectively, during that time
#MusComEnt #OneWayPassage #FrankMcHugh #WilliamPowell #AlineMacMahon

In the first dozen or so years of his film career (1930-mid1940s), Frank McHugh made approximately 90 feature films! His frequent co-stars & friends William Powell & Aline MacMahon would rival that with 60 & 40 films, respectively, during that time
#MusComEnt #OneWayPassage #FrankMcHugh #WilliamPowell #AlineMacMahon

In the first dozen or so years of his film career (1930-mid1940s), Frank McHugh made approximately 90 feature films! His frequent co-stars & friends William Powell & Aline MacMahon would rival that with 60 & 40 films, respectively, during that time
#MusComEnt #OneWayPassage #FrankMcHugh #WilliamPowell #AlineMacMahon

In the first dozen or so years of his film career (1930-mid1940s), Frank McHugh made approximately 90 feature films! His frequent co-stars & friends William Powell & Aline MacMahon would rival that with 60 & 40 films, respectively, during that time
#MusComEnt #OneWayPassage #FrankMcHugh #WilliamPowell #AlineMacMahon

And the man of the hour: Frank McHugh (May 23, 1898 – Sept. 11, 1981), who was from a theatrical family. He struck out on his own in 1930 and quickly made his way into film & later TV, where he easily cornered the market on being the (often tipsy) comic relief
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