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1934-1940

Walter Catlett worked for a variety of studios throughout the 1930's and 40's, appearing in countless features and short-subjects.

In 1934, Columbia signed Catlett to a series, which he would appear in until 1940, mainly as work in between feature film assignments. Some shorts have a few years gap between them, to which the  end result was only 6 two-reelers for the department.

The Catlett series gets the credit for introducing many of those zany sound effects associated with the Columbia shortst, which are easily recognized in the comedies of The 3 Stooges.

The Catlett shorts were syndicated by Screen Gems Television in 1959.


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GET ALONG LITTLE HUBBY (6/15/34) D: Raymond McCarey. Vivien Oakland, Monte Collins, Billy Gilbert, Charles Heine Conkin. When Walters wife receives a telegram notifying her that she's inherited $50,000, Walter quits his job and assumes he can now take a life easy, but his wife makes him do all the housework. TRIVIA: Many of the sound effects that are heard in the Columbia shorts, especially those now associated with the comedies of The Three Stooges, were first introduced in this short.

FIBBING FIBBERS (10/19/36) D: Preston Black. Clarence Muse, Billie Bellport, Bud Jamison. Walter pretends to have been in an auto accident in order to get out of two conflicting engagements. TRIVIA: Remade with Vera Vague as CALLING ALL FIBBERS (1945).

STATIC IN THE ATTIC (9/22/39) D: Charley Chase. Ann Doran, Charles Williams, Tommy Bond, Eddie Laughton, Bud Jamison, Beatrice Blinn. Walter is gifted with a ham radio on his birthday.

YOU'RE NEXT! (5/30/40) D: Del Lord. Monty Collins, Dudley Dickerson, Roscoe Ates, John T. Murray, Chester Conklin. Monty and Walter, as Pruitt and Slocum of the Eagle Eye Detective Agency, go to the aid of a millionaire who has been abducted by a mad scientist. TRIVIA: Partially reworked with Schilling and Lane as PARDON MY TERROR (1946), and with the Three Stooges as WHO DONE IT? (1949) and FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD (1956).

BLONDES AND BLUNDERS (11/29/40) D: Del Lord. Ann Doran, Marion Martin, Matt McHugh, Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent, Eddie Laughton, Stanley Brown, John Tyrrell. A beautiful blonde plants a stolen diamond necklace on an unsuspecting Walter. TRIVIA: Remade with Hugh Herbert as A PINCH IN TIME (1948).


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ELMER STEPS OUT (2/28/34) D: Jules White. Anita Garvin, Arthur Housman, Greta Meyer, Gloria Warner, Betty Grable, James P. Burtis, Marion Lord, Jack Hill, Bert Young, Robert "Bobby" Burns. To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with a wife and child. TRIVIA: Remade with Alan Mowbray as THREE BLONDE MICE (1942). The working title was PLAYFUL HUSBANDS.

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