If "Mad World" was made earlier?

Let's say "Mad World" had been made earlier, say in the late 30's/early 40's. Who would you have wanted in the cast?

- Capt. Culpepper - Wallace Beery
- J. Russel Finch - Jack Haley
- Melville Crump - Bert Lahr
- Benjy and Ding - Laurel and Hardy
- Mrs. Marcus - Kathleen Howard
- Lennie Pike - Edgar Kennedy
- Algernon Hawthorne - Arthur Treacher or Edward Everett Horton
- Otto Meyer - W.C. Fields
- Sylvester Marcus - ?
- Emeline Finch - ?
- Monica Crump - Paulette Goddard
- Cabbies - Jimmy Finlayson (first cabbie), Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (second cabbie), Shemp Howard (third cabbie)
- Smiler Grogan - Jimmy Durante (in 'older' make-up)
- Aloysius - William Demarest
- Biplane Pilot - Andy Clyde
- Tyler Fitzgerald - Arthur Housman or Jack Norton
- Detectives at the crash site - Edward Gargan and Tom Kennedy
- Ray and Irwin - Frankiln Pangborn and Johnny Arthur
- Sergeant - Vernon Dent
- Lt. Matthews - Bud Jamison
- Fire Chief - Harold Lloyd
- Col. Wilberforce - Billy Gilbert
- Nervous Man - Harry Langdon
- Miner - Max Rosenbloom
- Eddie - The Our Gang kids
- Fire Chief - Harold Lloyd
- Firemen - Moe, Larry, and Curly