Wally Van
Also Known As: Charles Wallace Van Nostrand
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Hyde Park, New York, USA
Birthday: September 27, 1880
Deathday: May 09, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Feudists
Overview: The Craigs and Smiths, next-door neighbors, are the best of friends until Smith builds a chicken house. Their two gardens are connected and their children fraternize as if all belonged to one large family. Sidney Craig manages to set loose Smith's chickens, who get into Craig's garden and work havoc among his pet seedlings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-23
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Fanny's Melodrama
Overview: Although deeply in love with his wife, Smith is intensely jealous of her and when she receives a note from her cousin, Tom, to the effect that they have decided to give the melodrama, "The Wicked Earle," as a surprise to Mr. Smith on his birthday.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-22
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Lillian's Dilemma
Overview: Lillian dresses as a man to gain access to a boy's school. (from Performing Queer Female Identity on Screen: A Critical Analysis of Five Recent Films)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-10
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Mixed Identities
Overview: Edna and Alice, the twins, get positions as stenographers in the offices of Mr. Redman and Mr. Carter. Redman is short and fussy, Carter, stout and nervous. They happen to be friends, and exchange phone confidences about their new stenographers. Both flirt with the girls. Redman invites Alice to dinner and gives this as a reason in refusing Carter's invitation to the Club. Carter, not to be outdone, dispatches a note to Edna who has gone home, asking her to meet him at Stanley's restaurant. While he waits, Redman enters the restaurant with Alice. Carter, believing her to be Edna, follows, but they have disappeared into a private dining room. Edna arrives and is perplexed at not finding Carter. She enters and meets him in the hallway, to be accused of having just entered with another man. She denies it. They get a dining room where they enjoy an excellent meal. Alice leaves Redman to phone her mother. Carter leaves Edna to get a cigar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-20
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Those Troublesome Tresses
Overview: Farce in which two neighbouring couples test each other's jealousy. The women decide to make the men jealous and vice versa. The men buy horse hair to make the women believe it is hair of another woman; the women pretend to have received love letters. Final match result: women seem more jealous than men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-18
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Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Overview: Cutey tries to make an impression on a couple of chorus girls. He attends the burlesque show with his friends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-09
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When the Press Speaks
Overview: Comedy of a bachelor who succumbs to the charms of love and deserts 'the boys' who had given him up as a hopeless case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Bunny's Honeymoon
Overview: Bunny's niece has a beau who is so addicted to drink that her father will not permit her to marry him. He has given the lad a chance, but when he comes upon him drink again, he orders his daughter to break it all off. She goes to Uncle Bunny, who thinks up a scheme to cure the drunkard. In pursuance of this, he brings the lad, so drunk that he can't see straight, to his home and by dressing up in woman gear, and by borrowed kids, makes him think he has married a fat widow with many children. The poor lad is so greatly worried that when he wakes up next morning, he really swears off. So. in the end, the lovers are happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-06
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Cutey Plays Detective
Overview: Seeing Cutey play the part of a maid of all work at a college play, Alys Trevor seeks an introduction to him and they soon become good friends. She takes him with her to present him to her mother, whom she finds talking to a stranger, Lord Goodbluff. Mama does not seem very pleased to meet Cutey. Later Cutey calls at the Trevor house to see Alys and meets Goodbluff there, who soon quarrels with him. Mrs. Trevor, entering in the midst of the dispute, requests Cutey to leave the house and apologizes to Goodbluff for the young man's behavior. Then she sends a note to Cutey, telling him that her daughter is no longer free to receive his calls. By a strange occurrence, Cutey's suspicions of Goodbluff are aroused and he determines to watch him. Noticing an advertisement in the paper for a maid of all work, inserted by Mrs. Trevor, he obtains the necessary disguise and applies for the position, which he gets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-27
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Slave of Desire
Overview: Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-04
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East Side - West Side
Overview: Poor, decent young woman Lory (Percy) avoids moral pratfalls after she is employed by a rich family. She falls in love with the son (Harlan) but the couple is separated by his cruel, class-conscious mother. Lory stays true to her spirit and does not compromise her integrity when the mother attempts to pay her off. Later, a tragedy might open the door the broken hearted young woman to find happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-29
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The Common Law
Overview: Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn't approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won't marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-30
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Bunny's Dilemma
Overview: John Bunny gets into an awful stew when he hears from his Aunt Eliza that she is coming to visit him and that she is bringing along her cousin, Jean, whom she wishes him to marry. He doesn't at all like the idea of abandoning his bachelor life and appeals to his friend, Jack Holmes, for aid. Jack is persuaded to masquerade as Bunny, whom his aunt has never seen, while Bunny himself gets into feminine garb and poses as the cook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-19
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Putting Pep in Slowtown
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-13
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Disciplining Daisy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-07
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Barriers Burned Away
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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