
M-G-M, which released the Flip cartoons, turned Durante and Keaton into a comedy team for a few pictures. Laurel and Hardy they weren’t.

Okay, a bit of an explanation. Rasputin and the Empress was an Oscar-winning movie released by M-G-M in 1932. Lionel Barrymore played the evil hyponotist.
There’s room for a Paramount star in this premiere, too.
Joe E. Brown shows up later in the short, as does Tyrell Davis and his swish act.
Multiple ones, at that. The Marxes were still, technically, with Paramount when the cartoon was released, and wouldn't sign with MGM until September of '34.
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