Marvin Loback
Also Known As: Marvin Lobach
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tacoma, Washington, USA
Birthday: November 20, 1896
Deathday: August 18, 1938
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Off His Trolley
Overview: Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-14
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White Wings
Overview: Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-12
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Uncivil Warriors
Overview: Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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Newly Rich
Overview: Newly Rich is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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A Prodigal Bridegroom
Overview: Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-25
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Masked Mamas
Overview: A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-30
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Hot Cakes for Two
Overview: Hot Cakes for Two is a silent film comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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Meet My Girl
Overview: Ralph is the poor inventor of an automobile motor with revolutionary claims. Marvin is the wealthy and one time college pal. Unknown to either of them, they both seek the hand of a charming young lady whose creditor-hounded parents' desires are for a well-to-do son-in-law. However, the girl's affection leans toward Ralph. In the meantime Ralph enlists the aid of his wealthy pal in the matter of financing the motor factory. Thus assured of success, he hastens to his sweetheart with matrimonial plans all set. All is well until the four meet at a restaurant party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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Hooked at the Altar
Overview: A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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A Harem Knight
Overview: A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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Peaches and Plumbers
Overview: To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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A Small Town Princess
Overview: A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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Cured in the Excitement
Overview: Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-12
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Hard Knocks and Love Taps
Overview: When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-24
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Here We Go Again
Overview: When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-15
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Isn't Love Cuckoo?
Overview: An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-22
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Flickering Youth
Overview: Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-27
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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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Holding His Own
Overview: After a fight with his neighbor over their Model Ts, Ben's tuxedo is ruined. Unfortunately, the suit he gets as a replacement doesn't hold up too well.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-22
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Here Comes a Sailor
Overview: Sailor Snub and his buddy meet two lovely ladies while on shore leave. They rent a car to impress them and drive the ladies to the park, where one by one they end up in the lake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-22
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The All-American Kickback
Overview: Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-29
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Black Oxfords
Overview: In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-18
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A Rainy Knight
Overview: Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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The Golf Bug
Overview: The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-30
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Smithy
Overview: After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-19
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Hatta Marri
Overview: Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her devotees steal Gribbon's trusty steed, Trixie. Gribbon cannot wed until he recovers Trixie, so he goes in search of her. Five years later, he is in the Foreign Legion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-10
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Jailed and Bailed
Overview: A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-11
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Gymnasium Jim
Overview: Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-09
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Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
Overview: A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-13
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The Fatal Glass of Beer
Overview: The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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Springtime Saps
Overview: Snub Pollard and Marvin Loback find comic situations as bums, night cops and seance attendees in this silent short.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Hey There
Overview: In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-28
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Thick and Thin
Overview: Roommates unable to pay the rent take to the streets in search of easy cash and free food.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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No Kidding
Overview: Snub and Loback try to hide a baby they’re watching from their landlord.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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On Patrol
Overview: Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-12
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A Studio Rube
Overview: Al attempts to sneak inside the studio to keep a date with an actress. He finally exchanges places with a dummy and lands within the walls of the studio, finds the girl and is promptly thrown out when he spoils several scenes and nearly causes a riot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-19
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It Happened One Night
Overview: A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-22
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The Landlubber
Overview: Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-09
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Speedy
Overview: Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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Men About Town
Overview: A Snub and Fat short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-07
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Good Morning, Nurse
Overview: Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-30
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The Cat's Meow
Overview: Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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Bashful Jim
Overview: Shy Ralph Graves is inspired by a movie hero to go after the girl he loves (Alice Day). A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-07
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Mitt The Prince
Overview: The film begins with Snub and Fat (yes, that IS the politically incorrect and cruel name given to Snub's partner in this and several other films made for the Weiss Brothers) want to make a few bucks. The film begins with them doing some maintenance sort of work--with Fat on a ladder and Snub sweeping outside. When this doesn't work out, a random stranger just happens to walk up to them and offer them HIS MOTHER'S CAR and asks them to make a delivery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-28
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Double Trouble
Overview: "Snub" and his much larger dancing partner, "Fat" (Marvin Loback), struggle with each other in the room they share, try to crash the local vaudeville house and end up having to repossess a piano from their former landlord.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-28
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Breaking the Ice
Overview: Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-04
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Sing, Bing, Sing
Overview: After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-23
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Join the Circus
Overview: 'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Heavy Seas
Overview: Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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Once Over
Overview: A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-20
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Sock and Run
Overview: Wacky Frenchman Alphonse (Snub Pollard) competes in an American boxing match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-20
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Don't Butt In
Overview: James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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Smith's Customer
Overview: Eighth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Bubbles is up to mischief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-06
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Hands Off!
Overview: Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves Ramona's sister from a stampede, and is then awarded a job on the Wadley ranch. The obligatory showdown features Pete and the gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-03
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The Smile Wins
Overview: James Parrott as a very persistent book salesman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-08
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Speed in the Gay Nineties
Overview: It's 1890. Inventor Ed Martin has long believed and has openly stated that man will someday be able to fly. As such, many people, including the mayor, believe Ed is crazy and want to have him committed. Ed plans to prove them wrong about his mental capacity by winning the upcoming horseless carriage race at the speedway using his 2-cylinder engine machine which he predicts can travel 15mph, twice the speed of other machines. But for Ed to be able to do so, he has to elude the mayor and his gang and get to the speedway in time for the race. And there still is the small matter of whether his prediction will come true, all his other predictions which have not come to fruition... yet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-03
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Nip and Tuck
Overview: Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-11
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