Sugar Daddies

MOVIE #1,692 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.03.24 We still aren’t in “official duo territory” but damn we’re getting close. This one is about a rich guy (played by James Finlayson, who’s been in a bunch of these shorts now and is always really good/funny) who wakes up after getting blackout drunk to discover he got married the night before. He enlists his butler (Oliver) and lawyer (Stan) to help him avoid his gold-digging step-daughter and brother-in-law. You’re not gonna believe this, but in accomplishing said goal, Laurel ends up in drag, albeit this time on the shoulders of Finlayson so he looks like a super tall woman (I feel like he's been dressed as a lady in half of these films so far)...

There’s some early camera movement in this one that’s interesting but it just ends up as a goof fest at the boardwalk attractions which ends with a pile up at the bottom of the wooden slide…


Good times.

𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕃𝔸𝕌ℝ𝔼𝕃 & ℍ𝔸ℝ𝔻𝕐 𝔽𝕀𝕃𝕄𝕆𝔾ℝ𝔸ℙℍ𝕐 ℝ𝔼𝕍𝕀𝔼𝕎 𝕊𝔼ℝ𝕀𝔼𝕊
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Sugar Daddies is a silent comedy short film starring Jimmy Finlayson, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951. The film is directed by Fred Guiol and Leo McCarey. It was released on September 10, 1927.