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Another Murphy bed in You're a Big Boy Now, with Peter Kastner trapped underneath it.

Murphy Bed seen in
THE CUCKOOS (1930) starring Wheeler & Woolsey.

Did What Price Hollywood? make the list yet?

Murphy Bed seen in
CRASHING HOLLYWOOD (1931) - Educational short.

Murphy Bed seen in
MONEY ON YOUR LIFE (1938) - Educational short.

Yesterday I saw a panel truck on the street with "Murphy Bed Express.Com" on it.

Bob

Here's a first for me, a Murphy bunk bed in the classic Morton & Hayes short Society Saps.

Yesterday I saw a panel truck on the street with "Murphy Bed Express.Com" on it.

Bob

And here it is now. Hmmm. Nice.
http://www.murphybedexpress.com/" target="_blank

In my never-cessing quest to see all the classics, I have just discovered a Murphy Bed in the immortal Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. It shows up in Frankie Avalon's apartment.

Bob

Murphy Bed seen in
OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN (1944) - Columbia short starring Shemp Howard.

Murphy Bed in the chase scene of "I'll Show You The Town" (1925). The bed also rotates on its center axis, making it doubly useful in the slapstick chase.

I have spent the last hour cleaning up my dvd collection and am taking a look at the Chaplin mutuals. Watching 1 AM I wonder: what's the earliest recorded use of a Murphy bed in a comedy?


Bob

Here's a Murphy Bed ca. 1917 in "A bedroom Blunnder" with Mary Thurman, Charlie Murray and Pat Ford [Frank Terry} with thanks to Steve Massa for the ID

Dick Foran gets closed up inside a Murphy Bed by Joan Davis and Irene Hervey in the 1943 Universal feature HE'S MY GUY.

Murphy bed spotted in the 1937 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon TRAILER THRILLS, inside the trailer.

Bob

Murphy Bed seen in
COLD TURKEY (12-1-33) - Paramount short starring Joseph Cawthorn.

Another Murphy Bed spotted in THE AMAZING MR. WILLIAMS (1939) - Columbia.
Actually I haven't seen that one in quite a while, so I don't recall it exactly, but I just found that among several stills I have from it is one showing Joan Blondell pushing a Murphy Bed up into the wall. (It is still #54-141).

And here it is:

Add to the Murphy Bed filmography:

LOUD SOUP (March 16,1929) - Hal Roach/MGM (Two reels).

Here it is:

Murphy Bed in the film noir TRY AND GET ME (1950) (AKA THE SOUND OF FURY). Miss Weatherwax puts up the murphy bed whenever someone comes to visit early in the morning.

Murphy Bed in the film noir TRY AND GET ME (1950) (AKA THE SOUND OF FURY). Miss Weatherwax puts up the murphy bed whenever someone comes to visit early in the morning.

"Miss Weatherwax"??? Where do they come up with these names?

Where did you see Try and Get Me?

Jim

At the UCLA Festival of Preservation, with Czar of Noir Eddie Muller introducing the film.

Two more Murphy Beds recently spotted:

UNDER A SPELL (1925) - Universal short.
A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE (1940) - Warner Bros. feature.