SHORT FILMS

 

 

THE STAR BOARDER

 

Vitagraph Company of America

Released: May 26, 1919

 

Featured cast: Larry Semon

 

Producer-director-writer: Larry Semon

Cinematographer: Jack Brown

 

THEME

 

A convict lives an easy life until he is released.

 

Norma Shearer appears as a member of the V (Vitagraph) Beauty Squad.

 

 

 

TORCHY’S MILLIONS

 

Master Films

Educational Film Exchanges

Released: October 3, 1920

 

Featured cast: Johnny Hines, Dorothy Mackaill

 

 

 

THE STOLEN JOOLS

 

Masquers Club of Hollywood 

National Variety Artists

Paramount Pictures

 

Released: April 4, 1931

 

Featured cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Wray, Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

 

Producer: Pat Casey

Director: William C. McGann

 

THEME

 

An all-star cast searches for Norma Shearer’s missing string of pearls.

 

 

PRODUCTION QUOTE

 “A world record for day-and-date bookings will be established tomorrow with the release to 2,264 theatres of The Stolen Jools, the NVA Week-sponsored short subject in which 55 stars appear.”

 

NOTE: Studios, stars, writers, and technicians donated their services to this production so that it could solicit funds for tuberculosis relief efforts, primarily at the Saranac Lake Cure Cottages. 

 

 

THE CHRISTMAS PARTY

Produced and Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

 

Released: December 1931

 

Featured cast: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable, Marion Davies

 

Director: Charles Reisner (credited as Charles Riesner)

 

THEME

 

An all-star cast celebrates Jackie Cooper’s Christmas.