Charley Chase
Also Known As: Charles Joseph Parrott, Charles Parrott, Charles Parrot, Charley Parrott, Charlie Chase, Charles Chase, Jimmy Jump
Biography: Charles Joseph Parrott (October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940), known professionally as Charley Chase, was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. Born Charles Joseph Parrott in Baltimore, Maryland, Charley Chase began performing in vaudeville as a teenager and started his career in films by working in film in 1912.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 19, 1893
Age: 131 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 20, 1940
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Dough and Dynamite
Overview: Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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Mabel's Busy Day
Overview: Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-13
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The Masquerader
Overview: Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-27
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Sold at Auction
Overview: This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything goes-quality one rarely sees in Mr. Roach's output. It stars Snub Pollard who is initially introduced as a baby left on a doorstep before we see him fully grown about 20 or so years later still in that basket! From there, he gets bumped car to car crossing the street prior to getting literally thrown through a window as an auction is taking place! Also appearing is James Finlayson as a man who's items accidentally get sold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-26
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A Coat's Tale
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-08
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Leaping Love
Overview: Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-22
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The King of the Wild Horses
Overview: A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-06
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Sons of the Desert
Overview: Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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'Curses!' They Remarked
Overview: Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-05
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Sweet Daddy
Overview: Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the station for a little girl. He takes one by mistake, narrowly escapes being arrested as a kidnapper and finally meets the niece, who is an over-dressed, ultra-modern young woman. The time between trains is spent in trying to hide the dog from the policeman, and when Jimmy puts his charge on the train, he feels that he has done a week's work in a day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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Her Dangerous Path
Overview: Her Dangerous Path
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-12
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The Perfect Lady
Overview: Jimmy Jump appears as a female impersonator in an amateur show who is forced to wear his costume home. He meets with varied experiences, and is such an attractive looking "woman" that the men all want to make dates with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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Position Wanted
Overview: Charley looks for a job position but is not anxious to find one. He ends up getting into all sorts of trouble at a masquerade ball.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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Long Live the King
Overview: A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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Love's Detour
Overview: Love's Detour is a 1924 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-09
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Why Husbands Go Mad
Overview: When Charley's wife buys a bulldog for his birthday present and has a special key made for the room in which she keeps it, trouble begins. He finds the key, and his suspicions are aroused. He storms about and makes trouble for all concerned until he learns that a dog, not a man, is behind the closed door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-13
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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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Bungalow Boobs
Overview: Jimmy Jump brings his bride to a new bungalow home, selected and furnished by him. All the neighbors come to call that first evening. The man next door is a builder who considers the construction of Jimmy's bungalow far below par. To emphasize his point he pulls down pillars, pokes holes in the floor and uproots the plumbing. When the guests depart the new house is a wreck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-26
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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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Hard Boiled
Overview: Charley Chase slapstick comedy short where he gets involved with a ventriloquist dummy among other wacky adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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What Women Did for Me
Overview: A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at -- a ladies' seminary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-14
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Are Brunettes Safe?
Overview: Are Brunettes Safe?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-06
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Merry Widower
Overview: Julius loses his wife to Rudy because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to meet with a fortune teller, Julius hatches a plan to win her back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-01
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Bigger and Better Blondes
Overview: Charley is mistakenly assumed to be a thief
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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The Lighter That Failed
Overview: For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools amidst his family all giving advice. Finally, he unwisely fuels it with gasoline, which gets it lit, but soon, so is his house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Many Scrappy Returns
Overview: Charley and his wife (Eugenia Gilbert) decide to teach a lesson to his brother (Eugene Pallette) who constantly battles with his wife (Anita Garvin). Through a misunderstanding, it isn’t long before the Chase’s knife-wielding barbarian of a cook (Bull Montana) thinks Charley has designs on his wife (Valentina Zimina).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-09
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All for Nothing
Overview: Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's wife later follows to apologize and unbeknownst to her and the friend, Charley uses costumes from the theater to pretend to be other people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-21
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Aching Youth
Overview: Aching Youth is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-17
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Imagine My Embarrassment
Overview: Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Never the Dames Shall Meet
Overview: Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-24
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Is Everybody Happy?
Overview: Is Everybody Happy? is a silent movie short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-29
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The Fight Pest
Overview: The Fight Pest is a silent movie short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-12
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The Family Group
Overview: Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-18
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The Booster
Overview: The Booster is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-24
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Off to Buffalo
Overview: Off to Buffalo is a comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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All Parts
Overview: All Parts is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-27
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Ruby Lips
Overview: Ruby Lips is a comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-19
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Loud Soup
Overview: Loud Soup is a comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-16
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Thin Twins
Overview: Thin Twins is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-13
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Great Gobs!
Overview: Charley and Edgar on shore leave in Mexico, fight for the affection of a pretty senorita.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
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On the Wrong Trek
Overview: Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in with two vagabond hitchhikers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-18
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The golf player
Overview: With all speaking French, Chase joins a golf club to win its president's daughter. The game descends into chaos when the other players conspire against him and he ends driving across the course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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The golfer
Overview: Charley Chase's golf film with all speaking Spanish.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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The soul of the party
Overview: An expanded, Spanish-language version of the two-reel comedy Thundering Tenors (1931).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-12
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Follies of love
Overview: Locuras de amor is a comedy short from Charley Chase with all speaking Spanish
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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The prince of the dollar
Overview: El príncipe del dólar is an American comedy short with all speaking Spanish
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-10-04
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Shy in spite of himself
Overview: Charley Chase comic short with all speaking French
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-08-23
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Gold Diggers
Overview: Chercheuses d'or is a American comedy short with all speaking French
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-04
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Keep the Bomb
Overview: Garde la bombe is the French speaking version of a Charley Chase comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Messing Around
Overview: Alternate-language version of Rough Seas (1931)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-08
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Across the Hall
Overview: Across the Hall
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-23
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Love and Salt Water
Overview: In this farce Charley and Minta frolic by the seaside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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Those Country Kids
Overview: Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-19
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A Gambling Rube
Overview: A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-15
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Hello, Mabel
Overview: Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-08
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Soldiers of Misfortune
Overview: Soldiers of Misfortune
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-27
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Such a Cook
Overview: Such a Cook
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-15
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Sophie of the Films #4
Overview: Thus far Sophie has failed completely as a motion picture actress. She has spoiled every scene, but through the general manager she is to be given one more chance. She is sent to the border to act in Mexican war pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-26
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Dash, Love and Splash
Overview: Dash, Love and Splash
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-19
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Where Hazel Met the Villain
Overview: Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-22
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Zip, the Dodger
Overview: Zip is a young man whose job is to dodge baseballs at a resort concession. To impress a young lady under a parasol he gets a friend to substitute for him while he pretends to be a young man of leisure. Trouble starts when the girl happens along later and discovers what Zip's job really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-17
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The Anglers
Overview: The Anglers
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-12
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Her Last Chance
Overview: Her Last Chance
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-29
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The Love Thief
Overview: Chester Conklin steals some hot dogs from the traveling vendor and brings the lady some flowers, then a chase ensues including a chase over roof tops and a lot of rapid-fire action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-22
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Only a Farmer's Daughter
Overview: Only a Farmer's Daughter
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-09
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The Plumber
Overview: This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues will not hold many surprises for those familiar with Keystone in this period, or, indeed, with the works of the Three Stooges, who often played inept plumbers. It is, nonetheless, very nicely performed, especially by Charles Murray who mugs it up freely and ineptly, as well as the pretty girl who plays the house's maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-09
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How Heroes Are Made
Overview: It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in appearance, falls desperately in love with the girl, but she spurns him. He bribes two young men to kidnap the girl, in order that he may play the hero and rescue her. However, he does not know that one of the "kidnappers" is the young man whom Mabel really is in love with, and his confidential friend, who, of course, delight in the deception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-14
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Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Overview: Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-24
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Other People's Business
Overview: Other People's Business
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-07
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A Favorite Fool
Overview: Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her place as trapeze woman in the show and get other work. She sends her brood to the poorhouse, and Foy, ignorant of her flock, makes love to her and is accepted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-14
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Droppington's Devilish Deed
Overview: Thinking he’s performing a good deed stagehand Droppington causes the breakup of the current show when he turns the full strength of the hose on what he supposes to be a fire in the theater. The fact of the matter is magician Mephisto was performing one of his tricks, hence the smoke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-05
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Playmates
Overview: A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Ship Ahoy
Overview: Charlie stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of crooks when a sea captain attempts to kidnap his landlady's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-15
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Chased Into Love
Overview: The will of T.W. Glutz provides that his bashful nephew, Hank, will inherit the entire estate if married by 2 P.M. of a certain date. Hank loves a girl who lives fifty miles away, but his uncle's executor, a lawyer, arranges a marriage with a somewhat antiquated home product. At 1 P.M. on the appointed day, Hank is sleeping off the effects of the night before. He wakens with a fever, a raging thirst, and an awful taste, when the lawyer enters and tells him the bride is waiting. "And my heart is fifty miles away," sadly muses Hank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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Her Tender Feet
Overview: Her Tender Feet
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-09
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Don't Rock the Boat
Overview: Snub Pollard and Sunshine Sammy Morrison are on a storm tossed ship that soon sinks leaving the pair stranded on a nearby island where comic situations ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-04
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Kids Is Kids
Overview: A young married couple volunteer to take charge of several orphans after the asylum has burned down. Of course they find their hands full with their troublesome charges.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-12
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Way Out West
Overview: Hank Mann heads Way Out West in this silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Live and Learn
Overview: Snub Pollard comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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Mystic Mush
Overview: Mystic Mush silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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In the Movies
Overview: In the Movies is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-28
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His Best Girl
Overview: His Best Girl is a silent film comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-27
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Moonshine
Overview: A Lloyd Hamilton slapstick comedy directed by Charley Chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-26
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The Stone Age
Overview: The Stone Age is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-06
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Jack Frost
Overview: Jack Frost is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-22
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Blue Sunday
Overview: Blue Sunday is a silent film comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-05
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The Hustler
Overview: The Hustler silent movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-04
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Overview: Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-05
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Fluttering Hearts
Overview: Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retrieve a compromising letter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-19
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Call of the Cuckoo
Overview: Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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Thundering Fleas
Overview: The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
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The Rounders
Overview: Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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His New Profession
Overview: Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-31
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His Musical Career
Overview: Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-07
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Mabel's Blunder
Overview: Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-12
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Bromo and Juliet
Overview: A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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When Comedy Was King
Overview: A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-29
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Mighty Like a Moose
Overview: After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
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Kelly the Second
Overview: A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-21
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Ambrose's First Falsehood
Overview: After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-12
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Leading Lizzie Astray
Overview: A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-30
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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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A Ten-Minute Egg
Overview: The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-19
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Seeing Nellie Home
Overview: The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by taking a pretty girl back home, wreaks havoc trying to get her in, then discovers that she's married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-26
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The 'Fraidy Cat
Overview: Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their father. He is terrified of Lem Tucker, who is his rival for the heart of Dorothy. Only when he mistakenly believes he is about to die does Jimmy find courage. But will it last?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-29
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Outdoor Pajamas
Overview: This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-13
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Arabian Tights
Overview: Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-02
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The Panic Is On
Overview: Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-14
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Hasty Marriage
Overview: It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-16
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Whispering Whoopee
Overview: Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-08
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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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The Rat's Knuckles
Overview: Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-03
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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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Long Fliv the King
Overview: This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-13
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April Fool
Overview: Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's Monday, April 1st and the paper's editorial staff has a great deal of trouble telling the difference between April Fool's jokes and real events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-18
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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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The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along with clips from many of the shorts that made the duo stars, it includes clips from a 1918 comedy starring Laurel on his own as well as scenes from three shorts Hardy made in 1917 and '18 with his original comedy partner, Billy West. To put the duo's work in context, the film briefly features other comedians who worked with producer Hal Roach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-26
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Forgotten Sweeties
Overview: Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-10
Popularity:
Young Oldfield
Overview: Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-22
Popularity:
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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Dog Shy
Overview: Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid getting married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-04
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A Versatile Villain
Overview: After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-29
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Love, Loot and Crash
Overview: A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-23
Popularity:
Tell 'Em Nothing
Overview: Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While explaining to one woman how to obtain a divorce by getting photos in a compromising situation...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-16
Popularity:
Be Your Age
Overview: Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-13
Popularity:
Now I'll Tell One
Overview: This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in the '90s. So half of the movie can be seen. It's a fast paced slapstick comedy with also a good comical story about a man (Charley Chase) who is being prosecuted for shooting his wife (Edna Marion).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-04
Popularity:
Mama Behave
Overview: A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his wife's fidelity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-27
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The Way of All Pants
Overview: A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-28
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The Glorious Fourth
Overview: It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-26
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Too Many Mammas
Overview: Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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Hollywood Party
Overview: Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending the party, they present a number of musical and/or dance performances to entertain the crowd. This set of performances also includes ethnic Chinese actress Anna May Wong modeling some fashions she brought back from her first ever trip to China. Through it all, one of the guests, already inebriated, is having a few problems mixing and serving the cocktails he wants.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-03
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Rough Seas
Overview: On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-24
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Girl Grief
Overview: Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-08
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All Wet
Overview: Charley Chase has car trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Limousine Love
Overview: On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-13
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High C's
Overview: The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-27
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He's In Again
Overview: A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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The Dumb-Bell
Overview: The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-16
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Accidental Accidents
Overview: Jimmy Jump gets rather wet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
Popularity:
The Pip from Pittsburg
Overview: Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-21
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Rolling Stone
Overview: A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-20
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Luncheon at Twelve
Overview: Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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Jubilo, Jr.
Overview: A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift circus.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-28
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The Real McCoy
Overview: Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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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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Dollar Dizzy
Overview: Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money. Charlie gets word that a rich uncle has died, leaving him millions. Attorneys advise him to repair to a resort and avoid gold diggers. Once there, word spreads among the single women, and several try to ensnare him. At first he's gullible, then he cottons on, so when Thelma, a wealthy young woman, mistakes him for a fortune hunter, he dismisses her as well. A manager's error puts Charlie and Thelma in the same suite, and both think the other is prospecting. A dressing gown, radio, bare feet, pistol, keyhole, fountain pen, bedcovers, and a suspicious hotel detective join the mix-up. But wait, was the inheritance a mistake?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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The Nickel Nurser
Overview: Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-12
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Fallen Arches
Overview: Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-04
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Poker at Eight
Overview: Charley Chase movie where Charley wants to go out to have a poker night with the boys but much to his chagrin his wife won't let him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-09
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The Great Toe Mystery
Overview: A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-25
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The Noise of Bombs
Overview: Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-19
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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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The Cracked Ice Man
Overview: Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-27
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In Walked Charley
Overview: Charley, a travel agent, finds himself in a situation where he has to humor an apparent lunatic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-22
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Rattling Romeo
Overview: Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling apart. He stops payment, and then must dodge repossesors as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-14
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Overview: Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-29
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Mabel at the Wheel
Overview: A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-18
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-21
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The Knockout
Overview: To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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Those Love Pangs
Overview: Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-10
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Fatty’s Faithful Fido
Overview: Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-19
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That Little Band Of Gold
Overview: A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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A One Night Stand
Overview: Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-22
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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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Fate's Fathead
Overview: Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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Movie Night
Overview: A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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Looser Than Loose
Overview: Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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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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The Awful Goof
Overview: A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-20
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The Heckler
Overview: An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Teacher's Pest
Overview: Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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South of the Boudoir
Overview: Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife. Meanwhile, the boss picks up Mrs. Chase and brings her as his dinner guest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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His Bridal Fright
Overview: Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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The Big Squirt
Overview: Soda jerk reads mystery stories, fancies himself a master detective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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The Wrong Miss Wright
Overview: Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Time Out for Trouble
Overview: Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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A Nag in the Bag
Overview: Two guys who own a restaurant get word of a sure thing at the races and bet all their money on that horse; unfortunately, they bet on the wrong horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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The Sap Takes a Wrap
Overview: Charley gives his girlfriend a mink coat he was supposed to be guarding for three showgirls; when the ladies want their coat back, Charley goes to great lengths to recover it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-10
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From Bad to Worse
Overview: Charley's honeymoon is upset by a woman and her jealous husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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The Nightshirt Bandit
Overview: A criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches up with the somnambulistic thief, it's not quite who he thought it would be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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Skinny the Moocher
Overview: Deep in debt, Charley must marry a wealthy society girl, and attends an afternoon party to announce the engagement. Trouble is, he's menaced by two thuggish creditors and must take his kleptomaniac butler along, passing him off as an uncle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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Man Bites Lovebug
Overview: To test his wife, Charley's friend puts him up to making a play for her, but she's on to it and pretends she's fallen for him, infuriating the friend.Charley must stay overnight, and unexpected complications put him in the wife's bedroom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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The Chump Takes a Bump
Overview: At a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Pie a la Maid
Overview: Charley falls for a waitress who mistakes him for a gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-25
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The Mind Needer
Overview: A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his wedding anniversary. Will he give his wife a present and avoid her wrath?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Many Sappy Returns
Overview: Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-19
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Calling All Doctors
Overview: Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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The Grand Hooter
Overview: Charley's wife accuses him of preferring his Hoot Owl Lodge over her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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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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Sittin' Pretty
Overview: When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time to receive the reward of $1,000.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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Love in Armor
Overview: Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-11
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Love, Speed and Thrills
Overview: After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. The Keystone Kops are also after Walrus.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-18
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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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Married to Order
Overview: Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the twin brother and all chaos follows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-29
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The Rent Jumpers
Overview: The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair is owned by the landlord of an apartment building and the other by one of his lodgers. The lodger also has a wallet that contains rent money except when it doesn't, and the wallet passes from one pair of trousers to the other at unexpected moments. But neither the landlord nor the owner of the wallet are the central figures here, for The Rent Jumpers is primarily a love story between the landlord's daughter, played by the ever popular Mae Busch, and the lodger's roommate, young Charley Chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-07
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Settled at the Seaside
Overview: Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him to re-tie his tie. He objects, so she returns the ring and walks away. An older couple has their own squabble: the middle-aged husband, who thinks himself a dandy, is happy to see his complaining wife roll away in a small, unattended carriage. He immediately approaches the younger woman. To make her ex-fiancé jealous, she takes up with the dandy and off they go to swim. What of the wife and the jilted beau? Can things be set right?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-28
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All Teed Up
Overview: Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-16
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Peanuts and Bullets
Overview: A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-12
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A Lucky Leap
Overview: A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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Colored Villainy
Overview: The Keystone gang all in blackface for this one-reeler!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-26
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The Big Squawk
Overview: Shy Charley tries to win his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-25
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Snappy Sneezer
Overview: Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-29
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The Count Takes the Count
Overview: Charley Chase' insurance company has a million dollar policy on Andrea Leeds' wedding coming off. When Andrea runs away and cons Charley into thinking she's a detective in pursuit of herself, there's no shortage of great laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-22
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Fifty Million Husbands
Overview: An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of their visit.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-23
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4 Clowns
Overview: Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse. Charley Chase is hampered by hiccups and a female professor, and he fleeces a drunken Oliver Hardy with a mannequin in a nightclub. The third part finds bachelor Buster Keaton desperately trying to get married by 7:00 PM in order to collect a $7-million-dollar inheritance. Keaton is pursued by money-hungry prospects in one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. Narration is provided by Jay Jackson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-01
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At First Sight
Overview: A man falls in love with a woman he thinks is a rich lady when in fact she is her maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-12
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Bad Boy
Overview: In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everything. His father wants him to act more manly, although Jimmy gets his sensitivity from his mother. He wants to wed his girlfriend, and so accepts a job at his father's iron foundry, but does not excel there. Next, Jimmy goes to a tough dance-hall to impress his girl. A highlight is his parody of an Isadora Duncan dance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-11
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First in War
Overview: Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a revolution there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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Young Ironsides
Overview: Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-02
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Midsummer Mush
Overview: Charley falls in love with Betty on a camping trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-20
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Nature in the Wrong
Overview: Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Charley suddenly believes he IS Tarzan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-18
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The Four Star Boarder
Overview: In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade as a boarder in his own home while his wife (Constance Bergen) pretends to be married to an old beau (T. Roy Barnes).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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The Chases of Pimple Street
Overview: In order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-22
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Nurse to You!
Overview: Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Big Game
Overview: While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-22
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Just a Real Good Car
Overview: Charley/Jimmy is a car salesman who takes an unruly family of prospective buyers for a picnic in the woods.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-27
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He Wouldn't Stay Down
Overview: A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-02
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One of the Family
Overview: Jimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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Powder and Smoke
Overview: A lightning rod salesman gets in the middle of a western shootout.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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Hard Knocks
Overview: A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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Don't Forget
Overview: A man arrives late at his own wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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Publicity Pays
Overview: Jimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up. He opens a publicity campaign by having her appear in public in spectacular costumes, with a monkey for a pet. The monkey gets away and Jimmy is elected to capture it. When peace once more descends upon them, the young wife decides to give up her career and devote her time to Jimmy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-04
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He Loved the Ladies
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-21
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Jeffries, Jr.
Overview: A man contacts a boxer in order to get in shape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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When Spirits Move
Overview: Silent Hank Mann comedy set in a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Another Wild Idea
Overview: Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
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Mr. Bride
Overview: Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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The Tabasco Kid
Overview: A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-30
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Thundering Tenors
Overview: Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
Overview: An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Hash House Mashers
Overview: A boy pines for the girl next door to the dismay of both their parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-16
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Little Daddy
Overview: Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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Big Red Riding Hood
Overview: Jimmy Jump is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purposes "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so he tries reading it at the book shop, something the owner doesn't like. But with a little help by the owner's wife it is not impossible, even when the book is bought by somebody else, put in a car and the car is stolen...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-26
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Stolen Goods
Overview: A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-29
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Fighting Fluid
Overview: Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around. This happens at his work when a co-worker sneaks off with the boss's daughter who just happens to be the crush for Charley. After accidentally getting loaded on bootleg whiskey, Charley gets some courage and goes out to get his woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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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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Mum's the Word
Overview: A widow has married rich, but didn't tell her husband about her son. And he's coming for a surprise visit. To hide his identity he is introduced as the husband's new valet, but still the husband has some doubts about a few strange scenes. And during the night, when the son tries to visit his mother, the husband always starts interfering, but the new maid also behaves strangely, trying to sneak into the husband's room...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-09
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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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Just a Minute
Overview: A car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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Southern Exposure
Overview: Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her lawyer husband, Jimmie, is a descendant of the Blue Grass State Chases. Assuming that they are now aristocratic heirs, they take a trip to visit their wealthy relations. They soon discover that Chaseville is a back-country hick town, and that their kin are dirt-poor illiterates who ambulate in bare feet. Nevertheless, Pappy (Charley Chase) could use Jimmie to defend him in a breach of promise lawsuit. Miss Lavinia Watkins sued him for not tying the knot, after pledging to marry her. The case is resolved as the courtroom becomes a dance floor, and everyone celebrates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Fatty's Magic Pants
Overview: 'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-13
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Girl Shock
Overview: Charley suffers a hysterical reaction whenever a woman touches him; a psychiatrist attempts to help him overcome his panicked reflex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-23
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Fast Work
Overview: Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an asylum escapee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-28
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April Fool
Overview: Sent as a missionary to cannibals, Lloyd Hamilton boards a ship, but encounters many problems along the voyage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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Four Parts
Overview: Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-17
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There Ain't No Santa Claus
Overview: Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-12
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Us
Overview: Short comedy about airplanes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-08
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Crazy Feet
Overview: Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-07
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Assistant Wives
Overview: Slapstick film about two married couples.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-04
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Something Simple
Overview: Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
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The Sting of Stings
Overview: Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivileged children out for a fun day at the carnival. Unfortunately, the children come from Juvenile Hall, and each one is more trouble than the last.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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All at Sea
Overview: Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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Cursed by His Beauty
Overview: Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-31
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Public Ghost # 1
Overview: Charley is hired to haunt a house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-14
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Neighborhood House
Overview: Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-09
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The lady from Chicago
Overview: This movie is the Spanish language version of THE PIP FROM PITTSBURG
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-22
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What a Bozo!
Overview: A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-07
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One of the Smiths
Overview: Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying multiple bulky instruments, boards a train and gives the conductor, the porter, and the passengers a terrible night as he tries to settle into his upper berth. Arriving at his rural destination of Beaver Dam, Charley masquerades as a hillbilly to track down the missing instruments. At the barn dance, he sings "Handsome Jim."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-23
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Skip the Maloo!
Overview: Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and disabuse his wife and daughter of any fondness for nobility.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-03
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The Golden Age of Comedy
Overview: A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Italian Love
Overview: Ethelyn Gibson has run away from daddy Ted Lorch because he wants to sell her to Leo White, King of Little Italy, for his music hall. So she dresses as a man and runs into Billy West in this scattershot burlesque.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-08
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Chasing Husbands
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-22
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Now We'll Tell One
Overview: Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-19
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His Silent Racket
Overview: James Finlayson manages to con Charley into becoming his partner in a failing dry cleaning shop that has been targeted by gangsters running a protection racket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-29
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A gray in the air
Overview: This here is the four-reel Spanish version of Charley Chase's Looser Than Loose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-11-21
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Sherman Said It
Overview: Although the war is over, Charley still can't seem to find his way out of France.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-02
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Stepping Out
Overview: Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-02
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The Nickel Snatcher
Overview: Hank Mann is the conductor of a horse-drawn trolley that carries a motley assortment of passengers to the beach at Venice in California, where the plot becomes involved with a bank robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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30 Years of Fun
Overview: Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-10
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Why Go Home?
Overview: 'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-01-11
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Mabel's New Job
Overview: A lost short film starring Mabel Normand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-16
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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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Hello Trouble
Overview: A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-25
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Modern Love
Overview: In order to keep her job, a young dress designer must keep her recent marriage a secret from her boss. An important client arrives from Paris and her boss decides to hold a dinner party for the man at the girl's house. When her husband finds out that the client wants to take her back to Paris so she can "study," he comes up with a plan to stop it, and it begins with his being the "server" at the dinner party.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-21
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Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
Overview: A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Life Hesitates at 40
Overview: Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-18
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A One Mama Man
Overview: Charley Chase on a boat with girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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I'll Take Vanilla
Overview: Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-05
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It Happened One Day
Overview: Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-07
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You Said a Hatful!
Overview: When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-13
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Okay Toots!
Overview: Charley Chase, a stockbroker, gets rich by mistake, has parking trouble, then at home finds his wife Toots seeing a psychic who apparently causes husband and wife to switch bodies!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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Manhattan Monkey Business
Overview: When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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Vamp Till Ready
Overview: Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-28
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Hey, skirts!
Overview: Alternate-language version of Girl Shock (1930)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-10-06
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