Jobyna Ralston
Also Known As: Jobyna Lancaster Raulston, Juliana Ralston
Biography: Jobyna Ralston (born Jobyna Lancaster Raulston, November 21, 1899 – January 22, 1967) was an American stage and film actress. She had a featured role in the first Oscar-winning film, Wings in 1927, but is perhaps best remembered today for her on-screen chemistry with Harold Lloyd, with whom she appeared in seven movies.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Pittsburg, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: November 20, 1899
Deathday: January 23, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
Overview: Hollywood on Parade was a series of short subjects produced by Paramount Pictures between 1932 and 1934. They showcased the studio's stars both in newsreel-type footage (glimpses of Hollywood figures at premieres, parties, the races, etc.) and in new material such as sketches or musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-17
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Girl Shy
Overview: Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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Wings
Overview: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
Genres: Drama Action War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-12
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Why Worry?
Overview: A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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The Freshman
Overview: Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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For Heaven's Sake
Overview: An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-05
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Hot Water
Overview: Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-26
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A Racing Romeo
Overview: When Red Walden loses out in the annual town motor race, Aunt Hattie Wayne and her niece Sally advise him to pay more attention to his garage.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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The Kid Brother
Overview: The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn't have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-17
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Ball Bearing, But Hard Running
Overview: A previously lost short also known as His Nimble Twist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-02-29
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Shine 'Em Up
Overview: Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-04
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Humor Risk
Overview: Harpo played the hero, a detective named Watson who "made his entrance in a high hat, sliding down a coal chute into the basement". Groucho played an "old movie" villain, who "sported a long moustache and was clad in black", while Chico was probably his "chuckling [Italian] henchman". Zeppo portrayed a playboy who was the owner of a nightclub in which most of the action took place, including "a cabaret, [which allowed] the inclusion of a dance number". The final shot showed Groucho "in ball and chain, trudging slowly off into the gloaming". Harpo, in a rare moment of romantic glory, gets the girl in the end. This film is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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The Power of the Press
Overview: The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-30
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Are Parents Pickles?
Overview: James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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Shoot Straight
Overview: SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in this predecessor to Tex Avery toons of the 1940s, and in a series of inventive gag sequences fails to capture squirrel, rabbit, chinchilla, bobcat, duck, and bear all in one reel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-10
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Blaze Away
Overview: Paul is practicing the art of being a cowboy. He consults a book before firing his gun, climbing onto a saddle on top of a chair and then falling off and dressing his wounds. He then gets back on his 'saddle' and fires his gun again, this time in the direction of another man who has just entered the room. Paul leaves abruptly and rides into town on a horse, and straight through a crowded saloon. A town marshal sees this as act act of bravery and rewards Paul with a sheriff's badge immediately. A fearful rival makes his mark when he lights his cigarette by tossing it into the air and shooting at it to ignite it!
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-03
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Harvest Hands
Overview: Paul, a great college athlete, is sent to his uncle's farm to be developed, but turns against the continual round of chores. And at the table he is continually elbowed aside by the huskier farmhands, until he gives up in disgust. But a last attempt to understand the intricacies of the tractor results in his demolishing the house, and the farmer's daughter aids his escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-19
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Gigolo
Overview: The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother, now broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband....
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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The Golf Bug
Overview: The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-30
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Special Delivery
Overview: The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, Eddie stumbles upon a gang of crooks who are planning a large-scale confidence scam. He exposes the villains and wins the love of heroine Madge (Jobyna Ralston). Though Cantor was a fine physical comic, he didn't truly score in films until the arrival of talkies allowed his fans to hear as well as see him. Special Delivery was directed by "William Goodrich," who in reality was comedian Fatty Arbuckle, hoping to stage a comeback after the sex scandal that destroyed his career.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-06
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The Night Flyer
Overview: Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mullins, is engineer of the new mail train scheduled to make a competition run. When Mullins overturns the new train, Bradley completes the run and earns the contract for his company by delivering the mail in record time on No. 99. A promotion to engineer helps him win Kate.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-05
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Jailed and Bailed
Overview: A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-11
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Sweet Daddies
Overview: Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events. This film is lost.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-06-12
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Shiver and Shake
Overview: A landlord is attending his new tenants' rollicking and well-attended housewarming party. As midnight arrives, a ghostly apparition appears outside the window--and our frightened hero immediately breaks out the shotgun to fend off the phantom menace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-22
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Touch all the Bases
Overview: After many difficulties getting into a baseball game with his girl, Paul is pressed into service as a pinch hitter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-13
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Watch Your Wife
Overview: A James Parrott comedy short.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-07
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The Landlubber
Overview: Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-09
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Take Next Car
Overview: In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the streetcar operator (played by Paul Parrott) and his girl friend (who happens to be the boss's daughter; portrayed by Jobyna Ralston) try to save the day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-29
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Bone Dry
Overview: Paul plays at being a detective until dad, who is a revenue officer, sends him out to prove his worth by rounding up some desperate moonshiners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-17
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Rough Waters
Overview: A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-06
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The Three Must-Get-Theres
Overview: In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-22
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Fashion News
Overview: Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-06
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The Toilers
Overview: The Toilers (1928)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-01
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Tight Shoes
Overview: The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-25
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Don't Butt In
Overview: James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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The College Coquette
Overview: Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1929-08-05
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Little Mickey Grogan
Overview: The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-27
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The Big Hop
Overview: Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-31
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Dogs of War!
Overview: The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Lightning
Overview: A film adaptation of the Zane Grey novel of the same name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-15
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Face the Camera
Overview: Hapless photographer James Parrott attempts to shoot a bathing beauty pageant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
Overview: Hilarious scenes from his silent and sound films as compiled and produced by Harold Lloyd himself.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-04
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