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Should Married Men Go Home? is a silent tworeel comedy produced by the Hal Roach Studios and starring Laurel and Hardy. It was filmed in March and May 1928, and released by MetroGoldwynMayer on Septemberof that year. It was the first Roach film to bill Laurel and Hardy as a teampreviously, their appearances together were under the Roach AllStar Comedy banner. Footage of the film featuring Laurel and Hardy on location in between shooting and some apparent outtakes has recently surfaced on YouTube.

Golf course girlfriends Edna Marion and Viola Richard had both been notified that Should Married Men Go Home? would be their last outing for the Hal Roach Studios that their contracts would not be renewed. Marion had appeared in nearly fifty films, most for Roach, yet would go on to appear in only a halfdozen Poverty Row productions she would be completely out of pictures by 1932. Viola Richard had enlivened several Charley Chase and Laurel and Hardy silent comedies before Married Men, yet would see service only twice more both in 1935, both for Roach, both only as an extra perhaps it was her considerable resemblance to It Girl Clara Bow that held her back in casting offices.The soda fountain routine funny here in silent guise would be reworked with sound and become even better a year later in the LampH talkie Men O War. Jimmy Finlayson would take over dispensing duties from Charlie Hall in the talkie. ........

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