Molly Malone
Also Known As: Violet Isabel Malone
Biography: From Wikipedia Violet Elizabeth Malone (stage name Molly Malone) (December 7, 1888 – February 14, 1952) was an American actress of the silent film era. She appeared in 86 films between 1916 and 1929. Her father, Lewis Malone, was a metallurgist for mining companies. Her mother was Violet St. John, born in Nebraska to immigrant parents from England. She started her movie career at the relatively late age of 29 but soon caught the eye of comedic actor and director Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle who cast her in a number of his shorts including Back Stage and The Garage plus his feature film The Round-Up. She also appeared in films directed by John Ford and Clarence Badger. Her last film was the Universal-Stern silent comedy short The Newlyweds' Pest in 1929.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wisconsin, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 07, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 14, 1952
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Sure Fire
Overview: The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-05
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Back Stage
Overview: Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-07
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The Hayseed
Overview: Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-26
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The Garage
Overview: Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-11
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Bucking Broadway
Overview: On a ranch in Wyoming, one of the cowboys, Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey), falls in love with his boss's daughter. But she decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton, a wealthy visitor to the ranch. She quickly discovers that life in the city is not what she expected. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiancée, decides to go to the city to find her, and in the end rescues her from the grips of Captain Thornton and from the extravagant and decadent way of life in the city.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-24
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Stop Thief
Overview: When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell poses as a maid to gain entrance to the household. Soon after, articles begin to disappear and Madge's father, a kleptomaniac, begins to feel guilty, while the groom almost suspects himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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Never Let Go
Overview: Campbell is disgraced and removed from the service. He saves the girl who was being carried off and rounds up the crooks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-27
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The Jaws of Steel
Overview: The Jaws of Steel is a 1922 Silent Western.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-10
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The Old Nest
Overview: A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely without them. Then when one of the children has a surprise to announce, they all return home to be with their mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-28
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Straight Shooting
Overview: Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-27
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The Trail of Hate
Overview: On a trip East, Silent Kerry falls for pretty Mary Stockdale. Later, by coincidence, she just happens to show up in his neck of the West. Her father is at the mercy of the usual gang of rustlers, and there's a jealous dance hall girl, Carmencita, who complicates matters for Kerry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-30
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Chase Yourself
Overview: Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but, in his haste to escape, Two-Gun drops a monogrammed pipe. Jimmie picks it up. Molly, on a nearby ranch, is having troubles with her foreman who, when he sees the pipe, thinks Jimmie is the outlaw and gets real peaceful. Impressed, Molly offer Jimmie the ranch-foreman's job. But they haven't seen the last of Two-Gun Joe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-26
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The Freshie
Overview: Convinced by a vacationing professor that he should get an education, Charles Taylor abandons his cowboy life for college. He finds that higher education involves more than books, however, when the sophomores select him as an ideal subject for hazing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-19
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Blaze Away
Overview: 'Tuck' Martin, a crooked rancher, plots to acquire possession of the neighboring ranch belonging to 'Pop' Melody, whose daughter, Molly, is in love with 'Big Boy.' Bill Lang, the Melody ranchman, is in league with Martin and succeeds in rendering Melody helpless, although he had originally intended to have him killed. An attack on the cottage discloses the double dealing of the foreman, who is finally brought to justice, with nothing but happiness left for 'Big Boy' and Molly.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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His Angel Child
Overview: A man believes that the baby in his livingroom is the "surprise" his wife messaged him about, and must contend with the real father's attempts to get his daughter back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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The Soul Herder
Overview: Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when the man is killed in an Indian raid, Harry takes care of his little daughter, later puts on the minister's frock and reforms a town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-07
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A Marked Man
Overview: Bandit Cheyenne Harry reforms because of the faith placed in him by Molly Young and her father. Soon, however, Harry is lured from the straight and narrow when he meets his old friend Ben Kent and consents to participate in Kent's plan of robbing a stagecoach.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-29
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Thieves' Gold
Overview: Cheyenne Harry tries to help his outlaw friend Padden evade arrest after Padden has drunkenly shot another man. In the end, the two mismatched friends fight it out, leaving Padden dead. In a romantic subplot, Harry's fiancée Alice leaves him, but finally returns.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-18
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Wild Women
Overview: Cheyenne Harry (Carey) and his pals, bent on helping their friend Rawhide Jack, attend a rodeo with the intent to win the prize for roping steers and to hand the winnings over to Jack.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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The Scarlet Drop
Overview: "Kaintuck" Ridge (Carey), refused admission to the local militia to fight on the side of Union in the American Civil War, joins a gang of marauders and at the end of the conflict finds himself a fugitive with a price on his head.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-22
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The Phantom Riders
Overview: Dave Bland, head of a band of cattle rustlers operating in Paradise Valley, is defied by Cheyenne Harry who has driven his heard into the valley to graze. Bland calls his phantom riders together, routes Harry's cattle, and then seeks their owner intent on taking his life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-28
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A Woman's Fool
Overview: Cowboy Lin McLean's restlessness takes him to Denver, where he becomes enamored of a waitress named Katie. Intending to marry her, Lin accompanies Katie back to the ranch, but a traveling rainmaker arrives in the little town, and Katie departs with him after revealing that he is her husband. Visiting Denver for Christmas, Lin adopts Katie's abandoned son Billy, and soon afterwards, the cowboy meets and falls in love with the new station agent, Jessamine "Jessie" Buckner. Lin and Jessie marry, and the little family is happy until Katie, determined to be rid of her neglectful husband and marry Lin instead, appears and drives Jessie away. Realizing that Lin does not love her, Katie poisons herself, and Jessie returns to Lin and Billy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-17
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Whoa, Emma!
Overview: When wild horse Emma (Trixie the Horse) keeps opening the gates and freeing horses, ranch owner Molly (Molly Malone) hires Jimmie (Jimmie Adams) to deal with the problem. When he tames Emma, however, jealous ranch hands tie him up and kidnap Molly, so it's Emma to the rescue!
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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Adventurous Ambrose
Overview: Ambrose and his wife are going to take charge of a seabeach hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-17
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Battling Bunyan
Overview: A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-11
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Stork Mad
Overview: A baby is dumped on a couple's doorstep, neither knows how to take care of the child, and funny situations arise. But things get more complicated when the husband receives a letter informing him that his mother is sick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Daring Deeds
Overview: William Gordon, Jr. is the rebellious heir to a million dollar airplane business. He leaves home in search of adventure, and falls in love with Helen, the daughter of an eccentric, destitute inventor. William enters an air race using a souped-up plane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-30
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Red Courage
Overview: Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Joe Reedly. The pair give the editor $100 and get a bill of sale for the newspaper, only to find out later that Reedly holds a mortgage of $200 against it. This they pay off and start a campaign to clean up the town. They meet with considerable opposition until they enlist the services of Judge Fay.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-10
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Court Plaster
Overview: Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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Fair But Foolish
Overview: The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off the ship. Arrested at customs, he manages to escape but gets caught again as he tries to rejoin his girl whose father is trying to remove her from his influence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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For Sadie's Sake
Overview: Chaos behind the scenes at a show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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The Car of Chance
Overview: In his will, Mr. Baird leaves his son Arnold just one seven-passenger auto and a hundred dollars to keep it filled up and in good repair. When James Bennett hears of this, he insists that Baird do something to make his fortune before he can marry his daughter Ruth. Bennett begins by using the car to start a jitney-bus line. This is not terribly impressive to Bennett -- who owns a trolley company -- and he decides he would rather see Ruth married to his controller, William Mott-Smith.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-09
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The Rescue
Overview: After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea for help from childhood chum Nell Jerrold begging Anne to save Nell's daughter Betty from marrying Kent, the ex-Mrs. Wetherall decides to journey to the Jerrold's home in the town of Wheaton to investigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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The Pulse of Life
Overview: Lisetta, the daughter of a fisherman, lives with her father and brother on the island of Capri. When Serrani, an Italian who has grown wealthy in New York, visits the island, he induces Lisetta to accompany him to America. There he abandons her and she becomes a dancer in an underworld café owned by "Dago" Joe, where she meets the artist Stanford Graham, who employs her as a model. Meanwhile, Lisetta's brother Domenic comes to New York to avenge his sister's dishonor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Lure of the Circus
Overview: Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-18
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A Poor Relation
Overview: Slaving to perfect an invention, Noah Vale tries to keep two orphans--Rip and Patch--and himself by peddling books and is helped by Scallops, a girl who occasionally brings them food. He appeals to Fay, a wealthy relative, for help in marketing his invention and arouses the interest of Fay's pretty daughter. Sterrett, Fay's partner, steals the model but returns it when he discovers it to be worthless. Johnny Smith, Fay's secretary, is fired when he proposes to the boss's daughter; and visiting Vale's attic, he is comforted by his epigrams. Johnny takes them to a newspaper editor, and they are so successful that both Smith and Vale are hired. Vale decides to give up inventing for writing, and Johnny marries Miss Fay despite her father's opposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-30
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Made in Heaven
Overview: William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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The Phantom's Secret
Overview: At the death of Count de Beaulieu, his daughter Jeanne learns that her father had been the arch-criminal known as The Phantom. The only other person who knew her father's identity was his lieutenant, Franz Leroux, who now demands that Jeanne marry him in return for his silence.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-14
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Little Johnny Jones
Overview: Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart in order to make Johnny throw the race. Will he succeed?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-12
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It's a Great Life
Overview: At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-29
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The Golden Stallion
Overview: The search for a lost gold mine hinges on a secret branded onto the neck of a great horse, White Fury.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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Not Guilty
Overview: A drama of a fugitive from justice and a fugitive from love.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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A Desert Hero
Overview: A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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The Bank Clerk
Overview: The Bank Clerk is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-05
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Across the Dead-Line
Overview: Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-09
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The Spite Bride
Overview: Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her partner Trixie Dennis' insistence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-21
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Hell Bent
Overview: A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-29
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