Mai Wells
Also Known As: Mary Lavinia Wells, May Wells, Mae Wells
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 13, 1863
Age: 162 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 01, 1941
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The Skeleton
Overview: Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.
Genres: Comedy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-23
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The Breath of the Gods
Overview: While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-25
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Cactus Nell
Overview: Cactus Nell
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-03
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The Pilgrim
Overview: The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-19
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Honest Thieves
Overview: Honest Thieves is a silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-12
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Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Overview: Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-26
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If I Had a Million
Overview: An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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The Late Lamented
Overview: Slapstick shenanigans at an overcrowded boarding house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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A Muddy Romance
Overview: Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-19
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A Movie Star
Overview: The star of a film attends a public showing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-26
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Madcap Ambrose
Overview: Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-16
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Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Overview: Villains launch Fatty and Mabel's beachfront house into the ocean.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-09
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Gentleman Burglar
Overview: Baffles, Gentleman Burglar
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-16
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Slim Becomes an Editor
Overview: The editor of the Bungleville Bugle posts a sign on the door, informing the citizens that he is going to a better town. On his way he meets Slim and sees him trading his horse for the Bungleville Bugle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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The Gusher
Overview: Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-14
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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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His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
Overview: A wicked king has taken over the Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera follows two farmers placing a Scarecrow upon a pole in a cornfield. Pon rescues a Kansas girl named Dorothy from the evil witch Mombi, whom Princess Gloria has been taken to by King Krewl to freeze her heart so she will no longer love Pon. An Indian princess has a ceremony to bring the Scarecrow to life. Pon rescues the cold-hearted princess and they flee for help, discovering the Scarecrow, who promptly falls in love with the princess, and Button-Bright, a lost boy from America. They come to the castle of the Tin Emperor, Nick Chopper, and after oiling him, he falls in love with Gloria. After a bit of a chase aided by the Sawhorse and the Wizard, Mombi turns Pon into a Kangaroo, and a slough of Fred Woodward's animals battle it out.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-14
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The Magic Cloak of Oz
Overview: The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-28
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Blondes by Choice
Overview: Bonnie and Cliff meet cute when she gives him a lift after his car has broken down. Turns out she’s getting ready to open a beauty parlor and bleaches her hair platinum blonde to drum up business much to the chagrin of a local woman’s group. However, when Cliff’s wealthy mother invites Bonnie to be guest of honor at her yacht party things turn around both business and personally for the pair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Excuse Me
Overview: A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-19
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Lady Clare
Overview: A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-17
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Opened Shutters
Overview: When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-12
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The Grab Bag Bride
Overview: A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lovers. Lake is a pretty good stand-in for Mabel, but the husky young man who is supposed to be Arbuckle is pretty much of a nullity. Al is a money-hungry villain, up to no good and achieving no good end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-27
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