Take 'em and Shake 'em

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| name = Take 'em and Shake 'em

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| director = Fatty Arbuckle
(as William Goodrich)

| producer = Lew Lipton

| writer = Beatrice Van

| starring = June MacCloy

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| cinematography =

| editing = John F. Link Sr.

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released = {{film date|1931|9|28}}

| runtime = 18 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Fatty Arbuckle and starring June MacCloy. The film has 2 reels{{Cite book |last=Couderc |first=Jean-Jacques |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7mcAEQAAQBAJ&dq=Take+'em+and+Shake+'em+fatty&pg=PA167 |title=Les petits maîtres du burlesque américain: 1909-1929 |date=2000-01-01 |publisher=FeniXX |isbn=978-2-402-62254-7 |language=fr}} and is a sound short.{{Cite book |last=Bradley |first=Edwin M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7vwCQAAQBAJ&dq=Take+'em+and+Shake+'em+fatty&pg=PA267 |title=The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 |date=2015-06-14 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0684-2 |language=en}}

Premise

Three girls are occupying the apartment of a rich Frenchman and have no intention to leave.

Cast

Reception

The Hollwyood Reporter described the shirt as "20 minutes of unbelievable hokum."

The Motion Picture Herald calls it "a comedy effort that contains a fair deal of slapstick."{{Cite book |last=Quigley Publishing Co. |url=http://archive.org/details/motionpictureher105unse |title=Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1931) |date=1931 |publisher=[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.] |others=MBRS Library of Congress}}