Gene Marsh
Also Known As: Gladys Devereaux Keller
Biography: Gene Marsh (born Gladys Devereaux Keller) was a silent screen actress during the mid 1910s (1914-1916).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 01, 1893
Age: 131 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 23, 1957
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His Prehistoric Past
Overview: Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-07
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Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
Overview: Luke, a street tramp, is taken to a dance contest by a pretty millionairess, but when he is ejected, he returns with a gun and wreaks havoc.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-29
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Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
Overview: Luke attempts to sell books to a businessman and his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-05
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Tinkering with Trouble
Overview: Sourball Joe gets the "can" for sassing the tenants, and Easy Otis supplants him. But the latter does not know an awful lot of the art of "janitoring" and soon gets into many and various jams with the people upstairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-17
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Pete, the Pedal Polisher
Overview: Pete is a discontented hostler. Hostlers are always discontented but Pete is a little more so. In fact, he is so sick and tired of his job as the mule's chambermaid that he is fast becoming desperate. He gives Maud her morning "Massage" and is interrupted by his "steady," a queen of the avenue, and a movie fan. She "coaches" and "wheedles" him in the naturally gentle, persuasive way of her class, in this wise: "Aw, loosen up. Separate. Give yourself another frisk," etc. As Pete finds himself unable to supply his "best" with the wherewithal to attend a movie, his discouragement becomes despair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-30
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Spit-ball Sadie
Overview: A young man promises his girl that he will get Spitball Sadie, a renowned female pitcher, for her all-girl baseball team. When he is unable to get Sadie to come, he dresses up as her and takes her place on the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-31
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Some Baby
Overview: Luke dreams of the good times that he will have with a young girl with the expense money he his given.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-20
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Fresh from the Farm
Overview: Farm youth goes to college, pursues the pretty co-eds and joins a fraternity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-04
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A Mixup for Mazie
Overview: Maisie Orpe is a dispenser of victuals in a second rate "beanery," and is the light of the lives of several of the town "swells". But Luke de Fluke, an all-round gay lad, and Shorty Magee, the local tough nut, seem to lead the field in Maisie's blue orbs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-06
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Close-Cropped Clippings
Overview: Punctual Pete prepares the "Shaved in Silence" shop for the day's business. He is as handy as a man with five thumbs. Gertie, almost a soubrette, looking for a job, decides that she is willing to try anything once. Seeing a sign in the barber shop window advertising for a lady barber she beats it home and brushes up on the tonsorial art.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-30
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The Masquerader
Overview: Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-27
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Laughing Gas
Overview: Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-09
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Getting Acquainted
Overview: Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-05
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Giving Them Fits
Overview: Lonesome Luke, working in a shoe store, has difficulty keeping his mind on business whenever a pretty girl is on the scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-01
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Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
Overview: Working as a pastry chef, Luke steals a watch from a customer, which results in a wild police chase throughout the store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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Peculiar Patients' Pranks
Overview: In pursuit of a pretty miss, Luke gets admitted to a hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-22
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Great While It Lasted
Overview: Luke lives the life of a millionaire until it is discovered that a mistake has been made and his inheritance belongs to someone else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-22
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Ragtime Snap Shots
Overview: Lucas and Larkin, his running mate, after looking for a job for some time, finally land one in a photographer's shop and immediately start to take possession of the place. They rule supreme in their own inimitable way until a bespectacled college graduate arrives to have his diploma, and incidentally himself, photographed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-29
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Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
Overview: This offering tells the tale of one, Oscar Weeban, a fellow deeply in love with a certain Maisie. He has promised to take her to the Garbage Gentlemen's Rally, that annual society event of the small town in which it is their fortune to reside, and she sends him a note to this effect. He is a rank outsider, but manages to inject himself into the spirit of the affair and enters into the sport of the occasion with a vim. It is at this event that the ashes throwing contest is held every year, and garbage men from all sections, trained to the minute, flock to the party to compete. The contest is at its height and one of the experts is trying for a world's record when Oscar crosses the range. Of course, he and Maisie manage to get in the way of the winning throw and spoil the record which is about to be made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-15
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A Foozle at the Tee Party
Overview: Luke lifts a wallet from a golfer and thereby gains entry to a golf course. Mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-08
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Luke Foils the Villain
Overview: Luke's courting of Maizie Nut is interrupted by a villain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-14
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Luke Lugs Luggage
Overview: As a baggage handler at a terminal, Luke is led on a merry chase by a billy goat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-12
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Lonesome Luke, Circus King
Overview: Luke opens a circus, but when local officials discover that his side-show attractions are fakes, trouble ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-29
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Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
Overview: Luke, stranded on a desert island, becomes chief of the natives. When he pursues the affections of a pretty white girl, he runs afoul of her sweetheart and has to swim back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-19
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