Katherine Grant
Also Known As: Kathryn Grant, Katherine May Grant, Katherine Kerr
Biography: Katherine Grant appeared in fifty silent-screen era comedy films between 1923 and 1926 after being discovered in a beauty pageant.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: May 01, 1904
Deathday: April 02, 1937
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Ridin' Thunder
Overview: When Bill Croft, a notorious gunfighter, is bushwhacked, innocent rancher Frank Douglas is accused of the crime on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to be hanged. Jack Douglas, Frank's son, sets out to prove his father's innocence with the help of Jean, the murdered man's daughter; Jack eventually apprehends the killer and forces him to confess, but the sheriff is unable to stop the execution without an official pardon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-14
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Why Men Work
Overview: A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-31
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The Royal Razz
Overview: A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-21
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Hard Boiled
Overview: Hard Boiled comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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The Family Entrance
Overview: Jimmy Jump and his family go to the movies for their regular Saturday evening recreation. Jimmy likes the picture, but his small daughter is bored and keeps him busy taking her for drinks of water. Mrs. Jimmy can't find a seat that suits her and by the time she has tried half in the theatre, and the little girl has emptied the water cooler, the show is over and the Jumps go home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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White Wings
Overview: Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-12
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Oranges and Lemons
Overview: After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-12
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Innocent Husbands
Overview: Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-01
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His Wooden Wedding
Overview: A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-19
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Kill or Cure
Overview: Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain't sayin' much. I should point out that this movie dates from 1923, the shank of Prohibition. During Prohibition, quite a lot of Americans purchased patent medicine if it had (ahem!) 'medicinal' properties, so -- if Knox-All contains alcohol.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-14
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The Uncovered Wagon
Overview: Hal Roach short is a spoof of the 1923 Western COVERED WAGON, which was a huge hit for Paramount. In this film a group of people are heading out West to Hollywood so they pack up their "wagons" and head out where they must battle various elements including crossing a dangerous river and battling Indians. The "wagons" are actually cars with a cover on them and the Indians even ride in on bicycles so you can tell the type of humor that Roach is going for.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-07
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Frozen Hearts
Overview: In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father. When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about. As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-27
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Under Two Jags
Overview: Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his affections.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-02
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The Noon Whistle
Overview: Stan is a lazy employee at a lumber company. Much of the first portion of the film has to do with Stan trying to sneak into work late--past the violent and rather insane supervisor. Later, however, Stan walks into a plot to steal the company away and frame the owner for a crime he did not commit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-28
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Should Husbands Be Watched?
Overview: Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework. Circumstances cause Mrs. Jump to suspect that Mr. Jump is cavorting with the new maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-14
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Scorching Sands
Overview: The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-09
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Charley My Boy!
Overview: A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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Just a Good Guy
Overview: A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-24
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Isn't Life Terrible?
Overview: Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-05
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No Father to Guide Him
Overview: Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to the beach. The mother-in-law pursues and comedy ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-05
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Is Marriage the Bunk?
Overview: Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think he's a drip--as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up--and loses face once again with his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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Wild Papa
Overview: The story revolves around two brothers-in-law as business partners in a cloak and suit establishment with a ravishing model as go-between. The married member of the firm scoffs at his partner's declaration that the beautiful model vamp is in love with him. He is soon proven otherwise when he sees her enter the room.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-17
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The Uneasy Three
Overview: Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a dimwitted trio of thieves who plan on stealing a priceless jewel.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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Papa Be Good!
Overview: The innocent flirtations of the two couples living in a city tenement eventually lead to a zany showdown in the court room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Gas and Air
Overview: Stan is Phillip McCann, a gas station attendant who arrives at his job by chauffeur and donning a fur coat over his work clothes. After being dropped off, he puts his sign on the doorframe and wanders off to a nearby cafe where waitress Katherine Grant serves him an egg, medium rare, and a cup of tea, well done....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-28
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What's the World Coming To?
Overview: Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Katherine Grant goes tomcatting around town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-16
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The Poor Fish
Overview: Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the housework. Having never done something like this in his life before, he starts a chaos, something his mother-in-law was expecting...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-07
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The Caretaker's Daughter
Overview: The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced by the prolific Hal Roach, the film stars the great Charley Chase in a case of multiple incarnations!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-10
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Laughing Ladies
Overview: Lucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the patients. On this occasion when a girl arrives at his office with an aching molar, he administers even more than the usual quantity. Under the influence of the laughing gas, she leaves the office and trips blithely along through all kinds of dangerous traffic, makes love to a married man while his wife looks on and succeeds in getting herself into several difficulties. In the meantime the dentist pursues with a restorative.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Hello Baby!
Overview: Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) and his wife find a baby left at their door. They happily take the baby in but find themselves at a loss when they want to sleep but the baby cries all night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-18
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Looking for Sally
Overview: Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses up in rags to meet her. But his way of introduction causes more confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-10
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What Price Goofy?
Overview: Jamison has a very jealous wife. Mrs. Jamison has a very gossipy friend. When the friend spots Jamison on the street talking to an attractive young woman, she reports back to Mrs. Jamison that her husband is obviously having an affair. Mrs. Jamison storms out, and a few minutes later a guest arrives for a visit -- a Professor Brown. Jamison doesn't realize the professor is a woman, and Mrs. Jamison, who has returned, doesn't realize the woman is Professor Brown. She presumes she has caught her husband with his mistress. A dancing butler, a game-playing dog, and a very accommodating burglar complicate the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-06
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Join the Circus
Overview: 'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Take the Air
Overview: James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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Collars and Cuffs
Overview: Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Roughest Africa
Overview: Two bungling adventures go on a big game hunt in Africa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-29
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The Soilers
Overview: During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-24
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Plain and Fancy Girls
Overview: Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eventually he realizes he is better off with his no-frills girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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Pick and Shovel
Overview: Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-16
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A Man About Town
Overview: A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-15
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