Here's an oddity. In 1929, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made a short called Double Whoopee. It was one of their last silent films and it is most notable for a brief scene with a then-largely-unknown Jean Harlow. She played a woman who gets much of her dress ripped off…a star-making part if ever there was one back then. A lot of people think this is one of several shorts that Stan and Ollie made when transitioning to sound — films issued in both sound and silent versions because many theaters in this country were not yet equipped to play "talkies."
The confusion is because there was a sound version of Double Whoopee. It just wasn't made in 1929 and doesn't feature the voices of the on-screen actors. In the late sixties as a pilot film for a projected series, a group of Laurel and Hardy fans dubbed the film with voices, music and sound effects. The main voices were done by Chuck McCann. They only did one film this way and I'm not at all sure how I feel about it…
