Madge Kirby
Also Known As: Madge Whitehead
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Norfolk, England, UK
Birthday: December 30, 1883
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Hopping Bells
Overview: The misadventures of a hotel bell hop played by Hank Man
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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Hot Dogs
Overview: Born in Russia, vaudeville acrobat Hank Mann acrobat accustomed without efforts towards American film comedy to become a star comic for several studios. Like Ben Turpin, his trademark was a brush moustache, too large, even for comedy standards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-05
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The Hungarian Nabob
Overview: After Count John Karpathy, belovedly known as the Nabob, falls ill while entertaining the peasants of his estate, his dissolute nephew and sole heir, Count Bela, comes home from Paris to acquire his inheritance. The Nabob recovers and, after hearing Bela's plan to squander the money, resolves not to give Bela anything while he lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-01
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Overview: A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-31
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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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Mystic Mush
Overview: Mystic Mush silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Way Out West
Overview: Way Out West silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The New York Hat
Overview: To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-05
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Heredity
Overview: Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the Trevors suffer severe financial reverses, and Nedda is yanked from the luxury of her ancestral home in Britain to be raised on New York's Lower East Side. Ten years later, the grown-up Nedda stands accused of the murder of her mother.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-04
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Dunces and Dangers
Overview: Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and everything and eventually chase the pair up onto the room—where various stunts occur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-04
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The Painted Lady
Overview: A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she is awakened by a noise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-24
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The Janitor
Overview: A mild-mannered, well-meaning but bumbling janitor gets unwittingly involved in a battle between two opposing political groups, with each side trying to use him to destroy the other, and the secret police--who have already thrown him out of their office when he worked there--watching all of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-07
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Romans and Rascals
Overview: The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-27
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Bertha, the Buttonhole-Maker
Overview: The boss, a villain, intends to have the beautiful buttonhole-maker for his own. He fires her sweetheart, and by a flimsy pretense, gets Bertha alone with him in the factory. After many exciting scenes the hero rescues his love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-04
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An Auto Nut
Overview: A crooked lawyer sells his car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Gum Riot
Overview: The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid the keen eye of an officer of the law, holds a bottle of liquor so that its contents drop into a vat in which the gum is being prepared. It is when the gum is finished and ready to chew that the riot starts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Naughty Nurses
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Broken Bubbles
Overview: A poor chap, with only fifty cents, hesitates whether to buy a meal with it or visit a fortune teller. He chooses the latter, and gazing into a crystal globe, he is told to follow the horses. He is then shown working around a racing stable, and, of course, rides the heroine's horse to victory. That night they decide to celebrate in a cabaret, where several amusing complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs
Overview: A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-22
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When Spirits Move
Overview: A 1920 Silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The One She Loved
Overview: Roy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more of their married life is one of bliss, made all the sweeter by the arrival of their first-born. The little trio, father, mother, baby, are bound together by love, until unreasonable jealousy possesses the young couple. While at work in his studio, the young author is visited by his wife just as he is complimenting his stenographer on her valuable aid, and from this the wife sees grounds tor suspicion. On the other hand, the young husband, seeing his wife talking to a stranger, becomes suspicious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-21
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My Baby
Overview: When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to leave her father, but soon she too is departing for a new home. Then comes a cold hard fact of life. The son-in-law claims his right to make a home alone for his wife. In his bitterness and anger, the father denies them both the house. Several years later the lonely old man meets at the gate a babe in arms. When he learns whose baby it is, heart hunger craves another sight, and sought, brings with it the only natural result.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-14
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The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Overview: D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robber has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-06
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The Noodle Nut
Overview: Whoever can make the sale of an order for noodles exactly five feet long to the customer in the black beard and white carnation gets to marry the boss' beautiful daughter, Madge Kirby
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Flash of Fate
Overview: When his father commits suicide after being ruined by dishonest stockbroker Abner Hinman, Randolph Shorb resolves to gain revenge and rebuild his fortune by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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Bears and Bad Men
Overview: Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-07
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J-U-N-K
Overview: A Hank Mann slapstick comedy where he plays a Junk Dealer's Helper.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-08
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A Harem Hero
Overview: A Hank Mann Arrow comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-11
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