During the current Cruel & Unusual Comedy series at New York's Museum of Modern Arts, I have seen four new Fox comedy shorts from the 1920s, doubling the total in my collection. Few of them survive and no one quite knows why.
Two of the new ones have been the Fox Chimps. Who doesn't like chimpanzees working as models in dress shops and being sinister Chinese apes who kidnap the models -- and the humans seeing nothing odd about any of it? Well, Jean Arthur for one. During a period when she was struggling to establish herself in Hollywood, she appeared in this one as Madame Maxine, who owns the dress shop and employs two of the chimps. For some reason she left it off her resume, and the IMDb seems unaware of it. We'll see how long it takes before they accept my addition to cast.
Considering Miss Arthur worked for Harry Cohn, I don't understand why she wouldn't mention a few chimps. Well, some people have odd tastes.