Rob Farr wrote:A comedy so rare that IMDb doesn't know it exists. Admittedly, this is a low bar, but still...
Rob, I checked around and discovered there’s a handful of comedies in the RKO Harry Sweet Series overlooked by the IMDB.
As best as I can tell, here’s all of them in release order:
JUST A PAIN IN THE PARLOR (Aug. 26, 1932)
A FIREHOUSE HONEYMOON (Oct. 28, 1932)
LOOPS! MY DEAR (Jan. 6, 1933) (working title: MAKING LOOPEE)
HEAVE TWO (Mar. 10, 1933)
THROWN OUT OF JOINT (May 12, 1933)
The last three shorts were released posthumously after Harry Sweet’s death on June 18th:
SHAKESPEARE WITH TIN EARS (June 30, 1933)
HOW COMEDIES ARE BORN (September 8, 1933)
SUITS TO NUTS (Dec. 1, 1933)
Production notes indicate that HOW COMEDIES ARE BORN was actually the last starring two-reeler Sweet made but it was released before SUITS TO NUTS. Both of these shorts were subsequently promoted in the trade papers as "Gribbon-Kennedy Comedies" since they also feature Sweet’s costars Harry Gribbon and Tom Kennedy.
Nobody ever dies in Hollywood, they’re just ignored.