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2026 · Action · Comedy
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Film / 1937
On Again—Off Again
Directed by
Edward F. Cline
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only …
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This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Cast
Bert WheelerWilliam Hobbs
Robert WoolseyClaude Horton
Marjorie LordFlorence Cole
Esther MuirNettie Horton
Patricia WilderGertie Green
Paul HarveyMr. Applegate
Russell HicksGeorge Dilwig
Maxine JenningsMiss Meeker
Kitty McHughMiss Parker
George MeekerTony Toler
Hal K. DawsonSanford
Pat FlahertyMr. Green
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Alec HarfordSlip Grogan
George BartonChauffeur
Alan BruceAttendant
Jack CarsonCop
William CorsonSmith
Charlotte DabneyBit
Jerry FrankParty Guest
Eunice HealeyTap Dancer
Ann HoveyCheerleader
Phyllis KennedyDancing Office Worker
Donald KerrMug Butler
Marie MarksSecretary
Dorothy MooreBit
Lillian O'MalleyCook
Jane WalshNurse
Arleen WhelanBit
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