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From Soup to Nuts is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edgar Kennedy released in USA on 24 march 1928 with Stan Laurel
From Soup to Nuts (1928)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 24 march 1928
Length 18minutes
Directed by Edgar Kennedy
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating66%
From Soup to Nuts is a 1928 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy as butlers hired for a high society dinner party. When Stan is asked to serve the salad undressed he serves it in his underwear.
The film was remade as a 20-minute section at the start of their 1940 feature A Chump at Oxford, added to extend that film's length for European audiences.
Synopsis
The film centers around Stan and Ollie being hired as waiters at an upper class dinner party and subsequently not making a very good job of it.Actors
Stan Laurel
(Hired butler)
Oliver Hardy
(Hired butler)
Dorothy Coburn
(Dinner Guest (uncredited))
Otto Fries
(Chef)
Anita Garvin
(Mrs. Culpepper)
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