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The Bohemian Girl is a 1936 comedic feature film version of the opera The Bohemian Girl by Michael William Balfe. It was produced at the Hal Roach Studios, and stars Laurel and Hardy and Thelma Todd in her last role before her death. This was also the only appearance of Darla Hood in a full-length feature produced by Hal Roach.

Plot

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Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy are a hen-pecked pair of Gypsies in 18th-century Austria. When Oliver is out pickpocketing, fortune-telling or attending his zither lessons, his wife (Mae Busch), has an affair with Devilshoof (Antonio Moreno). A cruel nobleman, Count Arnheim (William P. Carleton), persecutes the Gypsies, who are forced to flee, but Mrs Hardy, in revenge for Devilshoof being lashed by the count's orders, kidnaps his daughter, Arline (Darla Hood), and Mrs. Hardy fools Hardy into thinking she is their daughter since he believes everything she tells him. She soon elopes with Devilshoof, and leaves Oliver and "Uncle" Stanley holding the toddler. Arline is too young to remember her old life.

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Twelve years later, the Gypsies return to Arnheim's estate. When grown up Arline (Jacqueline Wells) accidentally trespasses in Arnheim's garden, she recognises the place and Arnhiem's voice, but is arrested by a constable (Jimmy Finlayson) and sentenced to a lashing. Stan and Oliver try to save her, but Stan is too drunk and both are arrested. Just as Arline is stripped in order to be lashed, she is rescued in time by Arnheim, who recognises a medallion she wears and a family birthmark, and both try to rescue Stan and Oliver. It is too late though: Laurel and Hardy had already been worked over in the torture chamber: Hardy emerges stretched to a height of eight feet, while Stan has been crushed to only a few feet tall and the constable just stands yelling and moaning.

Cast

Stan Laurel as Stan

Oliver Hardy as Ollie

Julie Bishop as Arline as an adult

Darla Hood as Arline as a child

Mae Busch as Mrs. Hardy

Antonio Moreno as Devilshoof, Mrs. Hardy's lover

William P. Carleton as Count of Arnheim

James Finlayson as Finn, Captain of the Guard

Zeffie Tilbury as old Gypsy Queen

Mitchell Lewis as Salinas, Gypsy Queen's advisor

Harry Bowen as Laurel and Hardy's first victim (the drunkard)

Sam Lufkin as Laurel and Hardy's second victim (the innkeeper)

Eddie Borden as Laurel and Hardy's third victim (the nobleman)

James C. Morton as the officer who arrests the nobleman

Harry Bernard as bell ringer

Thelma Todd as singer of "Heart of a Gypsy"

Felix Knight as singer of "Then You'll Remember Me"

Casting and production details

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wanted to cast a talented newcomer as Arline. Hal Roach cast Darla Hood, who had just begun appearing in Roach's Our Gang comedies, as young Arline and Julie Bishop as adult Arline.