Stick Around
About Stick Around
A helper is late to Babe Hardy's shop, and a roadster gag fills the opening. Dr. Brown, struck by falling plaster, phones for the sanitarium to be repapered. Hardy walks while Bobby Ray hauls the cart, falls down a manhole, and the pair arrive with billposters instead of wallpaper. Nurse Zenia Zane kisses Ray until he faints. Paste, a beard glued to the table, and an ape picture stuck to a face send the two men out of the job.
Cast & crew
More about Stick Around
Ward Hayes wrote and directed, Billy West produced, and Arrow Film Corporation distributed the Cumberland short, with Hardy billed as Babe Hardy. Wikipedia dates it March 1, 1925. It was later released as The Paperhanger's Helper.
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Harry M. Fowler is the cinematographer on the English Wikipedia infobox.
Preservation
The short survives. Wikipedia's external links point to a copy under the later title The Paperhanger's Helper.
Notes
- Harry McCoy plays Dr. Brown and Hazel Newman plays Nurse Zenia Zane.
- A patient believes he is a poached egg and asks for toast.
- An on-screen credit says the circus posters would make the Ringling Brothers want to kiss Barnum and Bailey.
- The water urn in the sanitarium is full of alcohol, and Hardy softens after a couple of glasses.
- The opening roadster backfires soot onto the helper before the wallpaper job starts.
Scenes
- Ray falls down an open manhole while hauling the wallpaper cart.
- A long beard is pasted to the table and has to be cut free.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Stick Around (1925).webm)
