Jack Pearl
The Famous Munchausen of the Air
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Meet the Baron is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, ZaSu Pitts, Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The title of the film refers to Pearl's character of Baron Munchhausen, which he made famous on his radio show.
Meet the Baron: Directed by Walter Lang. With Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy. The famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Walter Lang
- 1933-10-20
The next morning, after they read Munchausen's nasty farewell letter, the parched Julius and Joe are discovered by a safari of white explorers, who have been searching for the baron for many months. To assure their rescue, Julius pretends to be the baron, while Joe poses as Munchausen's manager.
- Walter Lang, Joe Boyle
- Jack Pearl
When a rescue team searching for the lost Baron stumble across the pair, they mistake Pearl for the missing Baron, and take the two of them back to America where they receive a hero's welcome.
Meet the Baron. A bogus Baron Munchausen (Jack Pearl) and his sidekick (Jimmy Durante) go from Africa to Broadway to a women's college.
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Comedy
- Walter Lang
This 1933 comedy pairs Pearl with loudmouthed, big-nosed funnyman Jimmy Durante, and gives the Baron Munchausen character an origin story, Batman Begins-style. Turns out he was actually the assistant to the real Baron Munchausen, who abandoned him and Durante in an…
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