Robert Woolsey

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Robert Rolla Woolsey (August 14, 1888 – October 31, 1938) was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.

Most Popular Robert Woolsey Trailers

Total trailers found: 32

Hollywood on Parade Trailer (1932)

05 June 1932

A short featuring many stars

Kentucky Kernels Trailer (1934)

02 November 1934

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him.

Rio Rita Trailer (1929)

15 September 1929

Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.

Cockeyed Cavaliers Trailer (1934)

29 June 1934

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 Trailer (1932)

20 October 1932

Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.

Cracked Nuts Trailer (1931)

18 April 1931

To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling.

On Again—Off Again Trailer (1937)

09 July 1937

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business.

Diplomaniacs Trailer (1933)

28 April 1933

Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers.

Caught Plastered Trailer (1931)

21 August 1931

Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.

Hook, Line and Sinker Trailer (1930)

26 December 1930

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns.

Classic Comedy Teams Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.

Half Shot at Sunrise Trailer (1930)

19 September 1930

Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.

Signing 'em Up Trailer (1933)

01 December 1933

An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.

Oh! Oh! Cleopatra Trailer (1931)

17 August 1931

A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them to ancient Egypt as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar vying for the beautiful Cleopatra's love in a chariot race.

The Stolen Jools Trailer (1931)

04 April 1931

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.

The Voice of Hollywood Trailer (1930)

28 April 1930

If you enjoy playing "Spot the Stars", this is the sort of short you'd enjoy. It's full of then-well-known Hollywood players, identified by name, who run through routines.

Dixiana Trailer (1930)

22 July 1930

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time.

So This Is Africa Trailer (1933)

21 April 1933

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

The Nitwits Trailer (1935)

07 June 1935

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

The Rainmakers Trailer (1935)

25 October 1935

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spelt

Girl Crazy Trailer (1932)

24 March 1932

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there.

Hold 'Em Jail Trailer (1932)

19 August 1932

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

Mummy's Boys Trailer (1936)

02 October 1936

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse.

Silly Billies Trailer (1936)

20 March 1936

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.

Bob Hope's World of Comedy Trailer (1976)

29 October 1976

Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sketch comedy and zingers.

The Cuckoos Trailer (1930)

04 May 1930

Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.

High Flyers Trailer (1937)

07 November 1937

Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter.

Peach-o-Reno Trailer (1931)

25 December 1931

After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno.

Everything’s Rosie Trailer (1931)

22 May 1931

A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.

Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 Trailer (1933)

29 June 1933

A short review hosted by Cliff Edward. Clarence Muse sings a song about the Congo, we see various Hollywood stars at a horse race in Mexico, and then a Mexican band plays a tribute to Lupe Vélez.

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10 Trailer (1934)

26 April 1934

Essentially an advertisement for Murder at the Vanities (1934). Features Chico Marx, W.C. Fields, Duke Ellington and many others.

Hips, Hips, Hooray! Trailer (1934)

02 February 1934

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.