Billy Gilbert
Also Known As: William V. Campbell , William Gilbert, Little Billy Gilbert
Biography: *** FYI: NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH ACTOR BILLY GILBERT (born William Gilbert Barron) WHO LIVED FROM 1894 TO 1971. *** Billy Gilbert (born William V. Campbell; September 15, 1891—April 29, 1961) was involved in more than 150 American films between 1913 and 1936, working as either an actor, extra, or director. Gilbert spent his entire career working almost exclusively in shorts, often uncredited. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 15, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 29, 1961
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Dynamite Allen
Overview: Betty, a blind girl, is the sole "witness" to the murder of a mine owner and whose mistaken testimony convicts Sid Allen her own benefactor. Years later, the adult Betty returns to the mining town, her sight restored. Fearing that she may remember the truth, the real murderer, "Bull" Snide has the girl kidnapped.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-20
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Those Country Kids
Overview: Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-19
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Motorboat Mamas
Overview: Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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The Bees' Buzz
Overview: Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-06
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Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Overview: Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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The Soapsuds Lady
Overview: The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-22
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Flirty Four-Flushers
Overview: With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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Peaches and Plumbers
Overview: To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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The Jolly Jilter
Overview: Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-13
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A Small Town Princess
Overview: A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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For Sale, a Bungalow
Overview: For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-30
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Fatty and Minnie He-Haw
Overview: Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-20
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Fickle Fatty's Fall
Overview: Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-14
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A Sweet Pickle
Overview: A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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Movie Mania
Overview: Part of a short-lived "Izzie and Lizzie" series named after the male and female ingénues in two comically contrasted families living next door to one another, this slapstick adventure finds Lizzie Murphy (Bess True) "going Hollywood." Having won a beauty contest, she's invited to travel west for a film test. Both Izzie Cohen and the Murphy menfolk are soon in hot pursuit, having belatedly realized that (according to a lurid tell-all book) Tinsel Town is the ruin of many a virtuous maiden. When they arrive, Lizzie is already starring in a movie and the wide-eyed family folk are fast wreaking havoc on the lot at "Paramet Studio."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-13
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His Bitter Pill
Overview: Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-30
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Whispering Whiskers
Overview: Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with classic physical comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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Ice Cold Cocos
Overview: Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Smith's Uncle
Overview: Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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Crazy to Act
Overview: Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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The Pride of Pikeville
Overview: Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Smith's Pony
Overview: The Smith's visit San Francisco to attend a horse show only to have their precocious daughter cause some minor comical mishaps and their over-sized canine refusing to obey commands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-17
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Fiddlesticks
Overview: Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-27
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The Rodeo
Overview: The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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All Wet
Overview: A slapstick comedy featuring Bud Duncan & Billy Gilbert.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-08
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Stuck Up
Overview: Bud Duncan comedy produced by Schiller and distributed by Reelcraft.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-11
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
Overview: A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-08
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Mother's Boy
Overview: Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-25
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A Quiet Little Wedding
Overview: The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-23
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The Speed Kings
Overview: Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-30
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Fatty at San Diego
Overview: Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river. Here he rescues a little boy and becomes a hero. He goes home to wife in a bedraggled condition, tells of rescue and is set upon a pedestal. Wife, as a reward, takes him to the movies at night and sees husband flirting and fighting in the fountain, where some enterprising cameraman caught him. That explaining, as she thought, the bedraggled state in which he arrived home, she turns and beats him all the way home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-03
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Fatty Joins the Force
Overview: Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-23
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He Would a Hunting Go
Overview: Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-29
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Rebecca's Wedding Day
Overview: Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-24
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Making a Living
Overview: A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-02
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
Overview: A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-09
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A Film Johnnie
Overview: The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-02
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Tango Tangles
Overview: In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-09
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His Favorite Pastime
Overview: A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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Cruel, Cruel Love
Overview: This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-26
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The Star Boarder
Overview: A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-04
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Caught in a Cabaret
Overview: Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-27
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A Busy Day
Overview: A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-07
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The Knockout
Overview: To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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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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The Rounders
Overview: Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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Those Love Pangs
Overview: Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-10
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Overview: Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-29
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His Musical Career
Overview: Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-07
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His Trysting Places
Overview: On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-09
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-21
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Leading Lizzie Astray
Overview: A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-30
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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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Ambrose's First Falsehood
Overview: After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-12
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Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
Overview: Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-17
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Love, Speed and Thrills
Overview: After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. The Keystone Kops are also after Walrus.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-18
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Fatty's New Role
Overview: Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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That Little Band Of Gold
Overview: A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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A One Night Stand
Overview: Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-22
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Wished on Mabel
Overview: Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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Mabel’s Wilful Way
Overview: Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-01
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Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
Overview: When a rich 'mothball magnate' checks into a hotel with his family, the mashers come out of the woodwork to woo his daughter (Fatty Arbuckle). The scene shifts to the beach where the buxom heiress becomes stranded on a rock, where she is sunbathing, when the tide comes in; An hilarious rescue effort ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-14
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A Hash House Fraud
Overview: A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-10
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A Submarine Pirate
Overview: A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-26
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Overview: In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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Hogan Out West
Overview: After arriving in a hostile Western town, Hogan meets the Wild West head-on. A shack loaded with dynamite aids his return to urbanity. "Plenty of western color helps to make the production an attractive one apart from its comic attributes. In this film Charles Murray as Hogan is his usual comical self." -The Moving Picture World, March 13, 1915.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-27
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Smith's Baby
Overview: Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-25
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Smith's Landlord
Overview: Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate member of the Smith family, has a starring role in this episode, digging up the garden and stealing the landlord's hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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Smith's Fishing Trip
Overview: Twelfth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family gos fishing while their house is renovated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-29
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Give Us This Night
Overview: After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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Smith's Army Life
Overview: 19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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The Campus Carmen
Overview: A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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