Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olsen & Johnson had a bright idea. They would celebrate finishing The Ghost Catchers, their new picture for Universal, by inviting the whole Ghost Catchers crew of 200 to Sons o' Fun in Los Angeles, and they themselves would take over their original zany roles for one night...
Oldtime Keystone Cop Eddie Cline, who directed The Ghost Catchers, had a bright idea too. Olsen & Johnson got their first whiff of it when they bounced onto the stage, discovered their 200 pals down front all reading newspapers and completely ignoring the show. A minute later chorines ran up & down the aisles shrieking, "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Read all about the Chaplin trial...
Thereafter the Cline idea put forth leaves and flowers. When Olsen & Johnson whipped out water pistols and sprayed the audience, the tireless 200 whipped out water pistols and doused the stage. At that point someone rushed a Martini on a tray to aisle-seated W. C. Fields. Quipped Fields loudly: "I hope this didn't come from the little boys' room." Every ten minutes another Martini arrived. Then...
...Just as Olsen & Johnson reached the punch line on a gag, a gentleman in a box dropped 40 clattering pots & pans...
...another feeble attempt to duplicate the popularity of their stage show, "Hellzapoppin," by a cinema "extravaganza," Olsen and Johns on have once again wasted yards of valuable film. Unfortunately, the creators of "Crazy House" tried to toss a plot into the script, thereby only adding to the general confusion. Olsen and Johnson play themselves, supposedly banned from their studio by an irate producer. Undaunted, they form their own company, with Franchot Tone as director and a would-be millionaire as financial backer. Tone, as talent scout, discovers the love interest--Marsha Hunt. In an hour and a quarter of slapstick...