"Punch Drunks" was the only film with The Three Stooges that they wrote themselves. This is because they were unhappy with their previous film for Colombia "Woman Haters" since it was not their style of humor, and wanted to show them how a Three Stooges film should work.
Buster Keaton wanted the film "Spite Marriage" to be a talkie. However MGM (The studio he was working for) wanted it to be a silent for budget reasons. "Spite Marriage" was Buster Keaton's last silent, and sadly the last film which would grant him any creative control (Which with this film was already slipping away).
The ending of "The Graduate" was inspired by the ending of 1924's "Girl Shy". "Graduate" director Mike Nicholas, had ""Girl Shy" actor/producer Harold Lloyd on set to somewhat supervise the scene.
In "The Big Noise" Laurel and Hardy repeated a sketch (About trying to sleep in a train berth) that they had previously done in the film "Berth Marks". Stan Laurel suggested they change the location from a train to an airplane to improve on what they had done before, but producer Sol Wurtzel told them they would do it as they had before. This is a sign of how much creative control Laurel and Hardy had lost once the moved to 20th century fox. Also during that scene if you listen closely you can clearly hear the crew laughing offstage.
The films "The Cococonuts" and "Animal Crackers" were both originally stage plays that also stared the Marx Brothers (Just like the films), these were also the first two films with The Marx Brothers.
In 1940's "One Night in the Tropics", we first hear Abbott and Costello's voices before we see them. This is because this was the film debut of the classic comedy duo. However they were already famous radio comedians, so this was a cleaver way to introduce them as film stars.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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