''Art Trouble'' is a 1934 American

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comedy short directed by Ralph Staub and starring Harry Gribbon and

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. The film is notable for featuring an uncredited

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in his first screen role. Gribbon was one of several comedy team partners with whom

worked. Howard had been an original member of the Three Stooges and brother of Stooges

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and Moe Howard. Shemp began making his own shorts prior to having to return to the Stooges in the wake of Curly's strokes in the mid-1940s.

Plot

Two brothers are ordered by their parents to go to Paris to study art. Having other interests, they pay two house painters to go in their place. When the impostors win an art contest, they are exposed by an unexpected visitor.

Cast

* Harry Gribbon ... Art Student *

... Art Student *Beatrice Blinn ... Girl at nightclub * Leni Stengel ... Girl at nightclub *Hope Landin ... Martha "Mater" Burton, the Burton boys' mother (uncredited) * Marjorie Main ... Woman Who Sits on Painting (uncredited) *

... Jack Burton (uncredited) *Don Tomkins ... Joe Burton (uncredited) * Gayne Whitman ... Richard "Pater" Burton, the Burton boys' father (uncredited)

External links

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