The Good Bad Egg

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The Good Bad Egg
Directed by	Jules White
Written by	Elwood Ullman
Produced by	Jules White
Starring	Joe DeRita Dorothy Granger Emil Sitka Vernon Dent Victor Travers
Cinematography
Edited by
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	March 20, 1947 (1947-03-20)
Running time	17:16
Country	United States
Language	English

The Good Bad Egg was an American comedy short released by Columbia Pictures on March 20, 1947, starring Joe DeRita, who later joined The Three Stooges and became "Curly Joe" DeRita, and featuring Dorothy Granger, and Norman Ollestead. This was the second of four shorts in the Joe DeRita series produced by Columbia from 1946-1948; all entries were remakes of other Columbia shorts.^[1]

Plot[]

Joe Priggle (Joe DeRita) is an inventor staying at a rest home where he tells the story to its proprietor (Vernon Dent) his strong dislike, eggs. It all starts when he fouls up one of his inventions to a client (Emil Sitka) when he finds an egg with an address written on it, the address belongs to a single woman Florabell (Dorothy Granger). He ends up marrying her, but soon finds out that she has an obnoxious brat of a son Rudolph (). He causes nothing but trouble for Joe by shooting him in the rear end with a slingshot, a BB gun and gets blown to bits by a miniature cannon. Meanwhile, Joe is busy working on his latest invention, a state-of-the-art dishwasher. The first time he uses it, it destroys all of Florabell's fine chinaware.

Cast[]

• Joe DeRita as Mr. Priggle the Inventor
• Dorothy Granger as Florabelle Priggle
• as Rudolph Priggle
• Symona Boniface as Member of Board of Directors
• Bobby Burns as Minor Role
• Lew Davis as Minor Role
• Vernon Dent as Priggle's Neighbor
• Frank Mills as Wedding Guest
• Frank O'Connor as Member of Board of Directors
• as Minor Role
• Al Thompson as Minor Role
• Victor Travers
• Emil Sitka as Client

Production notes[]

The Good Bad Egg is a remake of the Andy Clyde short film (1937).^[1]

DeRita did not think highly of his output at Columbia Pictures, once commenting, "My comedy in those scripts was limited to getting hit on the head with something, then going over to my screen wife to say, 'Honey, don't leave me!' For this kind of comedy material, you could have gotten a busboy to do it and it would have been just as funny."^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• The Good Bad Egg at IMDb
• The Good Bad Egg at threestooges.net

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