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Cooks and Crooks (1942)
Short | 18 min | Comedy, Short

Cooks and Crooks (1942)

Short | 18 min | Comedy, Short

This one is about as politically incorrect as any in the Edgar Kennedy series, since Edgar ends up in black face impersonating an applicant for a cook's job, Buelah Jackson, whom he had scared off for plot reasons, and who was last seen ...See moreThis one is about as politically incorrect as any in the Edgar Kennedy series, since Edgar ends up in black face impersonating an applicant for a cook's job, Buelah Jackson, whom he had scared off for plot reasons, and who was last seen doing the old feets-do-your-stuff routine. Edgar has become a mail-order Private Detective and a client soon knocks on his door with a job for Edgar. He is to go to a house and get the treasure hidden in a wall. But the residents, Vi and Danny, two crooks in hiding, won't let him in the house. Vi refuses to cook and Danny agrees to let her hire a cook, and makes it clear that all of Vi's other attributes (of which it is implied, with a heavy-handed smirk, there are many) more than offset her lack of culinary skills. Edgar encounters Beulah Jackson, an applicant for the job, outside the house and scares her away and she leaves her agency papers in her wake. Edgar then puts on black makeup, dons a dress, knocks on the door and is hired. And has soon made a shambles out of the house and his cooking assignment. Things get messy. Especially after the police show up and make Edgar take them to the man who hired him. Once there, his client gives Edgar another job... helping him paint an invisible fence. Written by Les Adams See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Edgar Kennedy Edgar, the Private Detective Edgar, the Private Detective See fewer	Duck Soup (1933)
Sally Payne Sally Kennedy, Edgar's Wife Sally Kennedy, Edgar's Wife See fewer	Man from Cheyenne (1942)
Dot Farley Sally's Mother Sally's Mother See fewer	The Red Kimono (1926)
Jack Rice Sally's Brother Sally's Brother See fewer	Blondie's Big Moment (1947)
Ann Summers Vi, a crook Vi, a crook See fewer	Dear! Deer! (1942)
Marten Lamont Danny, a crook Danny, a crook See fewer	How Green Was My Valley (1941)
John McGuire Detective Detective See fewer	Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Lew Kelly Edgar's Client Edgar's Client See fewer	The Lady in Scarlet (1935)
Lillian Randolph Beulah Jackson, fast-exiting job applicant Beulah Jackson, fast-exiting job applicant See fewer	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)