During the 1930s, the team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were among Hollywood’s top comedy stars, headlining 21 features during an eight-year span. But whereas other comedy teams of the 1930s such as Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers found new fans in later generations, Wheeler and Woolsey fell into obscurity.
By 1970, film critic Leonard Maltin’s book “Movie Comedy Teams” declared the duo has been “generally forgotten today.” While their films have since become available on DVD and online, many people are still unfamiliar with them.
