Lyle Tayo
Also Known As: Lyle Minnie Shipman, Lyle Barton
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Elmdale, Kansas, USA
Birthday: January 17, 1889
Deathday: May 02, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Yes, Yes, Nanette
Overview: Nanette sends a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanette's former lover returns, and Hillory must confront him
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-19
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Small Talk
Overview: The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, gets adopted by a wealthy couple, while his older sister Mary Ann does not. The gang all comes to visit Wheezer in his new home, setting off an alarm that causes the police and the fire department to come over. At that time, Wheezer's new mother and father decide to adopt Mary Ann as well. The couple's friends all each adopt a child as well; even Farina is adopted by the maid at Wheezer's new home.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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Baby Brother
Overview: Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-26
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The Spanking Age
Overview: Mary Ann Jackson and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced to endure the cruelties of their stepmother and stepsister. The kids get even by rigging a few clever contraptions of their own. In the end the father sells a patent worth millions. Before that, the Our Gang kids bring out out the old "alum" gag, along with several other tried-and-true comedy bits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-15
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Little Mother
Overview: Little Mother is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Little Mother was the 87th Our Gang short to be released. A silent film, it followed Our Gang's first sound film, Small Talk, on the release schedule.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Bouncing Babies
Overview: With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-11
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Rainy Days
Overview: Jay and Wheezer are left alone on a rainy afternoon when Mom goes out to run errands. But when their friends drop by and trash the place, the boys must struggle to clean up before Mom returns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-12
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Movie Night
Overview: A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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Men Are Such Fools
Overview: An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Red Noses
Overview: Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-18
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Below Zero
Overview: Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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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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His Wooden Wedding
Overview: A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-19
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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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Dogs Is Dogs
Overview: Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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Sure-Mike!
Overview: Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she relies on her friendship with the store manager. But she is soon disillusioned as to where she really stands with the manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-23
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Shivering Shakespeare
Overview: The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-25
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Bigger and Better
Overview: On the train trip home from school, all the kids except Dave talk about taking a vacation trip to Lake Arrowhead; Dave wants a summer job. Alabam suggests that his uncle might hire Dave at a department store. The uncle likes Dave's attitude and tells Alabam and Mickey they should work there too. Reluctantly, Alabam takes a sales assignment in ladies' accessories, where he's charming but clueless. Mickey, lazy and on the take, sees the store detective helping himself to a chocolate bar, so he wants that job. Dave learns the hard way that the customer is always right, Mickey puts the cuffs on the wrong customer, and Lake Arrowhead looks very far away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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Should Married Men Go Home?
Overview: Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-08
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The Battle of the Century
Overview: Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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Outdoor Pajamas
Overview: This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-13
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The Knockout
Overview: When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-05
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At First Sight
Overview: A man falls in love with a woman he thinks is a rich lady when in fact she is her maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-12
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Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-26
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Readin' and Writin'
Overview: Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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Stage Struck Susie
Overview: Eddie Barry bewilders himself backstage at a show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-04
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You're Telling Me
Overview: In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-16
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No Father to Guide Him
Overview: Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to the beach. The mother-in-law pursues and comedy ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-05
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Publicity Pays
Overview: Jimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up. He opens a publicity campaign by having her appear in public in spectacular costumes, with a monkey for a pet. The monkey gets away and Jimmy is elected to capture it. When peace once more descends upon them, the young wife decides to give up her career and devote her time to Jimmy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-04
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For Pete's Sake!
Overview: The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-13
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Spooky Hooky
Overview: The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then have to get it back when they find out that the class was going on a field trip to the circus anyway.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-24
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