The Bohemian Girl
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James W. Horne
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Thelma Todd
Antonio Moreno
Darla Hood
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Two pickpockets raise a stolen child, not realizing she's royalty.
Cast
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Thelma Todd
Antonio Moreno
Darla Hood
Jacqueline Wells
Mae Busch
William P. Carleton
James Finlayson
Zeffie Tilbury
Mitchell Lewis
Felix Knight
Yogi, The Myna Talking Bird
Earl Eby
Antoinette Lees
Harry Wilson
Ivar Mcfadden
Leo Willis
Lee Phelps
Eddy Chandler
Eddie Borden
Bobby Dunn
Harry Bernard
James C. Morton
John Powers
Winter Hall
Margaret Mann
Howard C. Hickman
Jimmie Dime
George Magrill
Fred Somers
Art Miles
Dave Wengren
Edgar Norton
Blanca Vischer
Edward Earle
Harry Bowen
Baldwin Cooke
Sam Lufkin
Lucille Stafford
Crew
Michael William Balfe
Ed Brandenberg
Chet Brandy
Jerry Breslin
Alfred Bunn
Francis Corby
W. B. Delaplain
Bobby Dunn
L. A. French
John Guedel
Charlie Hall
Carl Harbaugh
Bert Jordan
Stan Laurel
Art Lloyd
Walter Lundin
Louis Mcmanus
Charles J. Morton
Charlie Oelze
James Parrott
Charles Phillips
Elmer Raguse
William Randall
Hal Roach
Hal Roach
Charles Rogers
A. I. Royce
Dan Sandstrom
Roy Seawright
Robert Shayon
Nathaniel Shilkret
Nathaniel Shilkret
W. L. Stevens
William H. Terhune
Jean Vernon
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No writing credits were given in the onscreen credits, which several reviews noted was unusual. The writers listed above were taken from a October 9, 1935 Hal Roach Studios credit sheet contained in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library. The extent of each writer's contribution to the completed film has not been determined. A July 20, 1934 Hollywood Reporter news item announced that producer Hal Roach intended to make a feature film of Michael William Balfe and Alfred Bunn's The Bohemian Girl, but pre-production work on the film apparently did not begin until August 1936. According to Hollywood Reporter news items, recording engineer Elmer Raguse recorded music and singing for the film in New York under the supervision of Nathaniel Shilkret. Hollywood Reporter news items also noted that Roach was to personally direct the dramatic sequences in the film, and while he is listed as a director on some of the daily production sheets contained in company records at the USC Cinema-Television Library, modern sources state that he was too preoccupied with the construction on the lot to spend much time directing. The Bohemian Girl was the last film of actress Thelma Todd, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning on December 16, 1935. According to a January 2, 1936 Hollywood Reporter news item, Roach ordered retakes in order to "minimize the importance of the character played by the late Thelma Todd," because he wanted to "avoid as much as possible any reaction from the notoriety surrounding the player's tragic death." Modern sources speculate that in the picture as it was filmed in October and November 1935, Todd played the gypsy queen, who had a romance with the character Devilshoof. After Todd's death, Zeffie Tilbury was added to the cast as the gypsy queen, and the romantic subplot was reworked so that "Mrs. Hardy" and "Devilshoof" were the lovers.
Modern sources sources add the following actors to the cast: Harold Switzer (Gypsy kid); Bob O'Conor (Tavern waiter); Dick Gilbert (Torture chamber brute); Jack Hill, William Moore and Lane Chandler (Soldiers); Sammy Brooks, Alice Cooke, Tony Campenero and Rita Dunn (Gypsies); Charlie Hall (Voice-over for gypsy offering congratulations); Laughing Gravy (Dog); Bill Madsen, Frank Darien and Arthur Rowlands. In addition, modern sources complete the above cast list with the following character names: Harry Bowen (Drunk); Baldwin Cooke (Soldier); Sam Lufkin (Shopkeeper/Guard/Pickpocket victim); and Edward Earle (Gypsy). Balfe and Bunn's opera was first filmed in Great Britain as The Bohemian Girl, a 1922 Alliance production, directed by Harley Knoles and starring Gladys Cooper and Ivor Novello. For additional information about Laurel and Hardy's career together, please for Pardon Us.
