Meet the Baron

Meet the Baron

Directed by	Walter Lang
Written by	Norman Krasna Herman J. Mankiewicz
Produced by	David O. Selznick
Starring	Jack Pearl Jimmy Durante Edna May Oliver ZaSu Pitts Ted Healy Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard
Cinematography	Allen G. Siegler
Edited by	James E. Newcom
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	October 20, 1933 (1933-10-20)
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Meet the Baron is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, ZaSu Pitts, Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The title of the film refers to Pearl's character of Baron Munchhausen, which he made famous on his radio show.^[1]

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Plot

A couple of bunglers (Jimmy Durante and Jack Pearl) are abandoned in the jungles of Africa by Baron Munchausen. A rescue team mistake Pearl for the missing Baron, and take the two of them back to America where they receive a hero's welcome.

The phony Baron is invited to speak at Cuddle College, run by Dean Primrose (Edna May Oliver). There he falls for ZaSu Pitts and meets three crazy janitors (The Three Stooges), and faces exposure as a fraud.

Cast

Jack Pearl as The Famous Baron Munchausen of the Air
Jimmy Durante as Joe McGoo – the Favorite "Schnozzle" of the Screen
ZaSu Pitts as Zasu, Upstairs Maid
Ted Healy as Head Janitor
Edna May Oliver as Dean Primrose
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Girls as Dancers
Henry Kolker as Baron Munchausen
William B. Davidson as General Broadcasting Representative
Moe Howard as Janitor
Larry Fine as Janitor
Jerry Howard as Janitor
Ben Bard as Charley Montague
Claude King as Explorer

Reception

The film was a box-office disappointment for MGM.^[2]

"Clean as a Whistle", a musical number risqué for its time which involves a group of women in a shower, was later featured in the 1994 MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III as an example of Pre-Code Hollywood.

References

^ TCM website
^ D. W. (November 25, 1934). "TAKING A LOOK AT THE RECORD". The New York Times. ProQuest 101193306.

External links

Meet the Baron at IMDb
Meet the Baron at the TCM Movie Database
Meet the Baron at ThreeStooges.net
Shower scene in Meet the Baron on YouTube
Pearl as the Baron on YouTube

Films directed by Walter Lang

The Red Kimono (1925)
The Earth Woman (1926)
The Golden Web (1926)
Money to Burn (1926)
The Ladybird (1927)
The Satin Woman (1927)
Sally in Our Alley (1927)
By Whose Hand? (1927)
The College Hero (1927)
The Night Flyer (1928)
The Desert Bride (1928)
The Spirit of Youth (1929)
Hello Sister (1930)
Cock o' the Walk (1930)
The Big Fight (1930)
The Costello Case (1930)
Brothers (1930)
Command Performance (1931)
Hell Bound (1931)
Women Go on Forever (1931)
No More Orchids (1932)
The Warrior's Husband (1933)
Meet the Baron (1933)
Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
The Party's Over (1934)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Carnival (1935)
Hooray for Love (1935)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Top of the Town (1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
Second Honeymoon (1937)
The Baroness and the Butler (1938)
I'll Give a Million (1938)
The Little Princess (1939)
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
The Blue Bird (1940)
Star Dust (1940)
The Great Profile (1940)
Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Moon Over Miami (1941)
Week-End in Havana (1941)
Song of the Islands (1942)
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Coney Island (1943)
Greenwich Village (1944)
State Fair (1945)
Claudia and David (1946)
Sentimental Journey (1946)
Mother Wore Tights (1947)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
You're My Everything (1949)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
The Jackpot (1950)
On the Riviera (1951)
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
Call Me Madam (1953)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
The King and I (1956)
Desk Set (1957)
But Not for Me (1959)
Can-Can (1960)
The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)

Works by Norman Krasna

Plays

Louder, Please (1932)
Small Miracle (1934)
The Man with Blond Hair (1941)
Dear Ruth (1945)
John Loves Mary (1947)
Time for Elizabeth (1949)
Kind Sir (1953)
Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (1958)
Sunday in New York (1962)
Watch the Birdie! (1964)
Love in E-Flat (1967)
Bunny (1970)
We Interrupt This Program... (1975)
Lady Harry (1978)
Off Broadway (1982)

Films

Hollywood Speaks (1932)
That's My Boy (1932)
So This Is Africa (1933)
Parole Girl (1933)
Love, Honor, and Oh Baby! (1933)
Bombshell (1933)
Meet the Baron (1933)
The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
Romance in Manhattan (1935)
Hands Across the Table (1935)
Four Hours to Kill! (1935)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Fury (1936)
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
As Good as Married (1937)
Big City (1937) (also producer)
The First Hundred Years (1938) (also producer)
You and Me (1938)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
It's a Date (1940)
The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Princess O'Rourke (1943) (also director)
Bride by Mistake (1944) (original story)
Practically Yours (1944)
The Big Hangover (1950) (also director)
Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
Behave Yourself! (1951) (producer only)
The Blue Veil (1951) (producer only)
Clash by Night (1952) (producer only)
The Lusty Men (1952) (producer only)
White Christmas (1954)
Bundle of Joy (1956)
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956) (also director)
Indiscreet (1958)
Let's Make Love (1960)
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
My Geisha (1962)
Sunday in New York (1963)
I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)

Films produced by David O. Selznick

Roulette (1924)
Forgotten Faces (1928)
Chinatown Nights (1929)
Betrayal (1929)
The Man I Love (1929)
The Four Feathers (1929)
Street of Chance (1930)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
Rockabye (1932)
The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Topaze (1933)
Our Betters (1933)
Christopher Strong (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Night Flight (1933)
Meet the Baron (1933)
Dancing Lady (1933)
Viva Villa! (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
David Copperfield (1935)
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
Reckless (1935)
Anna Karenina (1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
The Garden of Allah (1936)
A Star Is Born (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
The Young in Heart (1938)
Made for Each Other (1939)
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Reward Unlimited (1944, short)
Since You Went Away (1944)
I'll Be Seeing You (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
The Paradine Case (1948)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
The Third Man (1949)
Gone to Earth (1950)
Stazione Termini (1954)
Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954, TV)
A Farewell to Arms (1957)

v t e Baron Munchausen
Authors	Rudolf Erich Raspe Gottfried August Bürger
Films	Baron Munchausen's Dream (1911) Meet the Baron (1933) Baron Prášil (1940) Münchhausen (1943) The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961) The Very Same Munchhausen (1979) The Secret of the Selenites (1984) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Related	The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (game) Munchausen syndrome Munchausen syndrome by proxy Munchausen by Internet Münchhausen trilemma Munchausen number 14014 Münchhausen

v t e The Three Stooges
Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Shemp Howard Joe Besser Curly Joe DeRita
Works	The Three Stooges filmography The Three Stooges Collection Jerks of All Trades The New 3 Stooges The Three Stooges Scrapbook Kook's Tour Moe Howard and the Three Stooges
Related topics	List of supporting actors in Three Stooges films Yogi Bear and the Three Stooges Meet the Mad, Mad, Mad Dr. No-No The Robonic Stooges Stoogemania "Swingin' the Alphabet" "The Curly Shuffle" 1984 arcade game 1987 video game 2000 TV biopic 2012 feature film C3 Entertainment
Associated people	Felix Adler Edward Bernds Tiny Brauer Clyde Bruckman Charley Chase Paul Garner Ted Healy Rich Koz Del Lord Norman Maurer Hugh McCollum Christine McIntyre Frank Mitchell Joe Palma/Fake Shemp Fred Sanborn Emil Sitka Greta Thyssen Elwood Ullman Jack White Jules White
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