Fay Holderness
Also Known As: Fay MacMurray
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oconto, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: April 16, 1881
Deathday: May 13, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Salvation Jane
Overview: An ambitious tenement girl forced into a life of crime has a change of heart when her victim tries to kill himself.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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Ann Vickers
Overview: After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-26
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Playmates
Overview: A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Their Purple Moment
Overview: The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner at a snazzy nightclub and much trouble ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-19
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Call of the Cuckoo
Overview: Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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Night Owls
Overview: The story is about a rebellious rich daughter who, instead of buckling down in school, is man-crazy for Horace (Arthur Lake of the "Blondie and Dagwood" films).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-25
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Lonesome
Overview: Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-20
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Campus Cuties
Overview: Sailor-suited Billy Dooley must get a dress uniform from the captain's daughter, Vera Steadman. Miss Steadman is, of course, a student as a girl's school, with the usual watchdogs on duty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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The Flaming Disk
Overview: Criminals steal a death ray that concentrates the rays of the sun. The inventor's daughter and a government agent try to retrieve it. 18 episode adventure serial.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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The Secret Garden
Overview: A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's estate. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-12
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The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Fast and Furious
Overview: Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of "Mermaid" comedies Conley made for Educational and Jack White, is African-American character actor Spencer Bell. The chase in reel two lifts a number of gags from Buster Keaton films.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-11
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Bear Shooters
Overview: The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-16
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The Bargain of the Century
Overview: Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-08
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The Boy Friend
Overview: The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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Should Men Walk Home?
Overview: Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale. Mabel seems a little livelier in this film than in some of her other late works. In the very first scene we find her hitch-hiking, and she's forced to make a mad dash for cover when Hale's car nearly hits her. Soon they team up and crash a swanky party in a mansion to steal a jewel from the host's safe.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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The Last Man on Earth
Overview: An epidemic has killed off all of the fertile men on earth, except for Elmer Smith, a hillbilly who lives out in a cabin in the Ozarks, when he is discovered, every woman on the planet begins fighting over him.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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Babes in the Goods
Overview: Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-10
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Zenobia
Overview: A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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Music Is Magic
Overview: An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Hog Wild
Overview: First, Ollie can't find his hat. Then he and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-31
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Let Us Live
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Good Night Nurse
Overview: A woman commits her hard-drinking husband to a sanitarium that would drive any man to drink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-27
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Spring Parade
Overview: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Blind Husbands
Overview: An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-21
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Overview: Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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The Chaplin Revue
Overview: Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-01
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A Dog's Life
Overview: The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-14
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The Bank Dick
Overview: Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Up in Mabel's Room
Overview: Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Honky Tonk
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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The Mummy's Ghost
Overview: An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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Bright and Early
Overview: Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-14
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Hearts of the World
Overview: A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake the town.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-11
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Distilled Love
Overview: Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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Should Sailors Marry?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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Dick Turpin
Overview: In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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The Right to Happiness
Overview: The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-30
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Hello Trouble
Overview: A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-25
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