Swiss Miss 🐭🧀 Laurel and Hardy 🦍🌉

Stanley and Oliver, ambitious mousetrap salesmen, dream of making their fortune in Switzerland but find themselves duped by a cunning cheesemaker. Struggling to repay their hotel debt, they work off their dues while Oliver finds himself smitten with Anna, a chambermaid. Unbeknownst to them, Anna is a renowned opera singer covertly keeping an eye on her composer husband, Victor, as he crafts his latest opera. Tasked with relocating Victor's piano to a remote treehouse, Stanley and Oliver find themselves in a precarious situation on a shaky rope bridge suspended high above an Alpine ravine, unexpectedly encountering a gorilla midway.

1. Charles Gemora played the gorilla and previously portrayed Ethel the Chimp in L&H short The Chimp (1932)
2. The film features a famous comedy scene of Laurel and Hardy moving a piano across a bridge; originally, there was a bomb subplot.
3. Anita Garvin was not retired, as often claimed, and appeared in multiple films between 1936 and 1940
4. "Swiss Miss" was the most expensive L&H feature with a $700,000 budget.
5. Rumored to be filmed in color but processed in black and white; no color print has been found
6. Hal Roach's daughter, Margaret, and Stan Laurel's daughter, Lois, both appeared in uncredited parts.
7. Grete Natzler, aka Della Lind, had her final film appearance in "Swiss Miss"
8. L&H also had difficulties moving a piano in their 1932 short The Music Box.
9. An 18-minute version, "Alpine Antics," primarily featured the brandy/St. Bernard and rope bridge/gorilla sequences.
10. Isabella Knotter filed a plagiarism suit against Hal Roach Studios and others, claiming her story was infringed upon.
11. The film was first telecasted in various cities between 1948 and 1949 as part of a newly acquired series of Hal Roach features.
12. Laurel and Hardy were paid in worthless currency in "Swiss Miss" and "Hollywood Party."
13. Lyricist Arthur Quenzer argued that Walter Woolfe King and Della Lind were the real stars, with L&H serving as comic relief