Babe London
Also Known As: Jean Glover, Ruth Glover, Jean London
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Babe London (born Jean Glover, August 28, 1901 – November 29, 1980) was an American actress and comedian, most remembered for her onetime-only partnership with Oliver Hardy, in the 1931 Laurel and Hardy two-reeler Our Wife. London began her screen career as a teenager, making her film debut in The Expert Eloper in 1919. She then appeared in A Day's Pleasure, performing opposite Charlie Chaplin. London appeared in more than 50 silent films, including The Perfect Flapper, The Boob, and the 1928 version of Tillie's Punctured Romance starring W. C. Fields. She worked with many of the funny men of the day, including Harry Langdon and Chester Conklin. At the height of her career London weighed 255 pounds. Later, a heart condition necessitated a loss of 100 pounds, and her movie offers declined along with her weight. She never regained her earlier success. In the late 1950s London began a second career as a painter and devoted the last 20 years of her life to depicting on canvas the early years of Hollywood. She titled the series The Vanishing Era. London willed 75 of her paintings to the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, along with her personal belongings.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 28, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 29, 1980
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Call the Wagon
Overview: Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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Nearly Married
Overview: Monty Banks comedy produced by Warners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-11
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The Balloonatic
Overview: Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-22
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Our Wife
Overview: Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-16
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Done in Oil
Overview: Jimmie, an oil stock salesman, is roughly handled by a couple of shrewd promoters who have stolen a well from a poor girl. The latter saves our hero, who in turn gets the well back for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-14
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Scrambled Brains
Overview: Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-07
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Mr. Dynamite
Overview: A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Golden Dreams
Overview: Oil is discovered on the Countess de Elberca's estate in a mythical Spanish American country. Mercedes McDonald, her niece, falls in love with Sandy Buchanan, a young Scotch engineer hired by the countess. Don Felipe, a neighbor in need of money to avoid arrest for embezzlement, conspires with his nephew, the Duke of Othomo, for the latter to wed Mercedes. The aunt approves the suit. Felipe and Othomo attempt to kill Mercedes' sweetheart, but Buchanan, with the aid of her brother and a traveling American circus, foils their plans. Felipe and Othomo are killed by the circus animals, and the aunt consents to Mercedes' marriage to Buchanan.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-11
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When Romance Rides
Overview: Lucy Bostil, daughter of a Colorado ranch owner, is led by a dog to his master, Lin Slone, who is exhausted from a struggle to capture a wild horse; she revives Lin and they christen the horse "Wildfire." The Bostils have entered Sage King in a race, but Lucy agrees to tame and train the wild horse, since Buckles, her favorite colt, has been stolen. When Joel Creech, a half-witted stable hand, is discharged, he becomes a tool of the Cordtses--who also have entered a horse (Buckles) in the race--in drugging Sage King. Lin and Lucy enter Wildfire under the Bostil colors, and she rides him to victory, When Cordts is disgraced and discovered to be a horse thief, he persuades Joel to abduct Lucy. Joel does so, but first he kills Cordts. Warned by his dog of Lucy's danger, Lin pursues and rescues the girl.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-16
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Stay Single
Overview: After Felix Valle helps rescue next door neighbor Dorothy Devore's dog from the over-zealous dog catcher, she agrees to help him get a raise in salary by pretending to be his wife. Meanwhile, her jealous husband is bringing home Felix' boss for a deal...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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The Boob
Overview: To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-17
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New Moon
Overview: New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-23
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Scrambled Eggs
Overview: Two "correspondence romance" suitors prepare to meet their respective partners for the first time; mixups ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-24
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Go West
Overview: With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-03
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Jonah Jones
Overview: This two-reel Lloyd Hamilton comedy. Set in the bucolic countryside, the opening sequence introduces Ham and his girlfriend Babe London as "the hired man and his three acres of love.". Ham encounters an attractive, prosperous-looking young lady who is having car trouble. After gallantly fixing her flat tire and when he realizes that the young lady has left her purse behind with her address inside he sets out to return it, no doubt hoping for a reward, either monetary or romantic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-20
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The Judge Steps Out
Overview: A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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Winter Has Came
Overview: A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the aged folks from being driven out into the blinding snowstorm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-06
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Overview: A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-18
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When the Clouds Roll By
Overview: Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist. Through various means of control, the mad scientist drives Daniel to think he's losing his mind, but ultimately introduces him to the lovely Lucette.
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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A Day's Pleasure
Overview: A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-15
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Jackass Mail
Overview: An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Red Pepper
Overview: An ordinary day - so an eventful one - of Tom Katt, a young man who works as a drugstore owner's assistant: his - very acrobatic - bike ride to his place of work; the - fanciful - way he performs his job; the - ingenious - subterfuge he finds to help his employer, who has money problems; the - swift - way he escapes the cops chasing him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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Why Worry
Overview: George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a young man -- he is supposed to have been in his mid-fifties when this movie was made, but if so, he could have passed for 30 -- who heads over to a sanitarium filled with the usual crazy types, falls in love and runs off with the leading lady, all without doing anything that might be called in the least funny.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-11
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A Hula Honeymoon
Overview: Henry Murdock & Babe London go on Honeymoon to Hawaii.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-18
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Scared Silly
Overview: The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-13
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This Time for Keeps
Overview: A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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Sex Kittens Go to College
Overview: Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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The Princess from Hoboken
Overview: To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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Dancing in the Dark
Overview: Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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The Good Humor Man
Overview: Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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The Weak-End Party
Overview: A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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The Handy Man
Overview: A 1923 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-12
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Grandpa's Girl
Overview: A 1924 Jack Duffy comedy. Jean manages to be expelled from college to be able to go to Europe with her grandfather. When he learns about that, grandpa disinherits Jean and starts looking for a grandson to replace her. Jean dresses as a boy, Oswald. Grandpa then tries to marry Oswald and test his new grandson’s strength.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-15
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Kidding Katie
Overview: A 1923 Christie comedy starring Babe London and Dorothy Devore. Queenie (London) has sent a picture of her sister Katie (Devore) to her pen pal as if it was her. Now that the pen pal is in love and coming to meet Queenie in person, Katie has to pretend she is a child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Getting Gertie's Goat
Overview: Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-09
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Hollow Triumph
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
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The Rent Dodgers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-07
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Sauce and Senoritas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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Public Pigeon No. 1
Overview: Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-17
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The Awakening
Overview: A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-17
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