One Too Many
About One Too Many
Plump wakes with a hangover and a note that Uncle John will arrive at two to meet Plump's wife and baby. He has neither. He pays people to borrow a child and a stand-in wife, and the babies start changing hands, one of them hidden in a cupboard. He then pays the janitor to play the baby. Uncle John kisses that infant, who sneaks a puff on a cigar, the real child cries, and Plump announces twins.
Cast & crew
More about One Too Many
Will Louis directed and wrote this Plump and Runt short, released 17 February 1916. Oliver Hardy, billed as Babe Hardy, plays Plump, and Billy Ruge plays Runt.
Themes
Making
The gag piles up borrowed children, including a cot hauled upstairs, until the uncle walks into the shaving scene.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Billy Bletcher plays an unhappy boarder. Edna Reynolds plays a newlywed. Madelyn Hardy, Oliver Hardy's wife, plays a woman on the street.
- A neighbor across the hall can offer only a porcelain dog when Plump first begs for a baby.
- The janitor, hired as the infant, takes two pulls on a cigar when the uncle turns his back.
- Joe Cohen is also in the cast.
Scenes
- Plump reads the note and realizes the visit is at two and it is still morning.
- Uncle John kisses the janitor dressed as the baby.
- The cigar and the crying child in the cupboard force the twins story.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (One Too Many 1916 OLIVER BABE HARDY Willard Louis.webm)
