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With most of the running time taken up about trying unsuccessfully to change out of each other's riding boots, Be Big! is sometimes regarded as one of the team's weakest short films, with Randy Skretvedt saying 'The film's chief flaw is an excruciatingly protracted sequence which has Stan trying to pull his boot from Hardy's foot it runs 13 minutes and seems like 20. She would return in 1938 for their feature Swiss Miss and again in 1940 in A Chump at Oxford. This was Anita Garvin's last appearance in a Laurel and Hardy short since 1927's Why Girls Love Sailors, she had appeared in over a dozen L&H short subjects. Д«esides serving as a dress extra Jean De Briac was also Laurel's and Hardy's dialogue coach on the French-language version, Les Carottiers (in which he also played Cookie). Horne as director and Jack Stevens as photographer. The opening titles on the film credit James Parrott as director and Art Lloyd as director of photography, but all contemporary publicity and promotional materials name James W. Laurel in all three films she mouthed her foreign lines phonetically, on-camera but off-mic, while a voice actress just off-camera spoke into a 'hot' mic. Laurel and Hardy delivered their French and Spanish lines phonetically from cue cards in both foreign versions. Hardy and Jean De Briac in Baldwin Cooke's role of 'Cookie.' The Spanish version, Los Calavaras, featured Linda Loredo as Mrs. Les Carottiers was the French version it replaced Isabelle Keith with Germaine de Neel as Mrs. These foreign versions combined the story of the English original with that of Laughing Gravy, another short from the same year.

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Chet Brandenburg as Cab driver (uncredited)Д«e Big! was filmed in two extended foreign-language versions immediately upon completion of its English incarnation.

Jack Hill as Passerby at station (uncredited).

The wives then return having missed their train and with no obvious escape route Stan and Ollie take to a bed in fear and in response to Stan's plea of 'What'll I do?', Ollie replies 'Be big!'.

The pair dress in their lodge gear and there are scenes of a lengthy struggle to pull one of Stan's boots off Ollie's foot. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising that he and Stan will meet them in the morning. Cookie tells Ollie that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor and reveals irresistible details of the event when Ollie says they won't be able to attend. Laurel and Hardy are almost on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from Cookie, a lodge buddy.

Hardy is a man of great care, caution and discretion вЂ“

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