Elsie Tarron
Also Known As: Elsie Maud Tarron
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: September 30, 1903
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 24, 1990
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A Close Shave
Overview: An inept window washer becomes an equally inept barber.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-23
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The Lion's Whiskers
Overview: Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a building. This stunt is funny and rather realistic. Second, Billy looks in a keyhole at what he THINKS is a lady taking a bath--and she's soon joined by a man!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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Lizzies of the Field
Overview: There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-07
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The Hollywood Kid
Overview: A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-19
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Tight Cargo
Overview: Charles Puffy and the cannibals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-15
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The Phoney Express
Overview: Silent western comedy starring Charles Puffy
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-08
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The Extra Girl
Overview: Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Overview: An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-14
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Ice Cold Cocos
Overview: Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Run, Girl, Run
Overview: A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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The Hansom Cabman
Overview: Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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Picking Peaches
Overview: A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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One Cylinder Love
Overview: A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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Not Guilty!
Overview: Puffy and his girlfriend want to get married by a judge at the courthouse. However they go to a wrong door and he's mistaken for a defendant in a murder trial.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-27
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Hop Along
Overview: Part of Universal's series of one-reel Bluebird Comedies, this one stars Arthur Lake as a student who's confined to his dorm room to study on the night of a big costume party. When Professor Wise (George B. French) comes to check up on him, he finds Lake in a bathrobe, book in hand. As soon as the prof leaves, Lake rips off the robe to expose his Scots costume.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-24
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Sky High Saunders
Overview: Sky High Saunders is a 1927 American silent action film directed by Bruce M. Mitchell. The film stars Al Wilson, Elsie Tarron and Frank Rice. Sky High Saunders was one of a series of films that showcased the exploits of the stunt pilots in Hollywood.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-06
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The Campus Vamp
Overview: Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-25
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The Campus Carmen
Overview: A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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Motorboat Mamas
Overview: Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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