Edgar Kennedy
Also Known As: E. Livingston Kennedy, Ed. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Ed Kennedy
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film character actor, known as "Slow Burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper. Kennedy is best known for a small role as a lemonade vendor in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup, as well as the many Hal Roach films he appeared in. Kennedy became so identified with frustration that practically every studio hired him to play hotheads. He often played dumb cops, detectives, and even a prison warden; sometimes he was a grouchy moving man, truck driver, or blue-collar workman. His character usually lost his temper at least once. In Diplomaniacs, Kennedy presides over an international tribunal, where Wheeler & Woolsey want to do something about world peace. "Well, ya can't do anything about it here", yells Kennedy, "this is a peace conference!" Kennedy, established as the poster boy for frustration, even starred in an instructional film titled The Other Fellow, in which loudmouthed roadhog Edgar always vents his anger on other drivers (each one played by Kennedy as well), little realizing that, to them, he is "the other fellow." Perhaps his most unusual roles were as a puppeteer in the detective mystery The Falcon Strikes Back and as a philosophical bartender inspired to create exotic cocktails in Harold Lloyd's last film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947). He also played comical detectives opposite two titans of acting: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century (1934) and Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours (1948); in the latter, he tells conductor Harrison that "Nobody handles Handel like you handle Handel." Kennedy died of throat cancer at the Motion Picture Hospital, San Fernando Valley on 9 November 1948. His body was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Monterey, California, USA
Birthday: April 25, 1890
Deathday: November 09, 1948
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Gender: Male
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Duck Soup
Overview: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-12
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It Happened Tomorrow
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
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The Ghosts
Overview: Juanito gets locked out of his house in the middle of a windy night. Spanish language version of When the Wind Blows (1930)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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Blondie in Society
Overview: Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-17
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Double Wedding
Overview: A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
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Dough and Dynamite
Overview: Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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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 Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Overview: Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Overview: A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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Li'l Abner
Overview: Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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My Dream Is Yours
Overview: Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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A Star Is Born
Overview: Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-27
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Twentieth Century
Overview: A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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The Rural Third Degree
Overview: Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The bride samples it in Si's absence, and being unaccustomed to drink, is overcome and falls on the table in a stupor. Si discovers her just as a party of neighbors are coming to congratulate the young couple and hides her in the yard, laying her on a bench. An inquisitive visitor finds her and reports to the constables that Si has killed his wife, and he is apprehended.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-06
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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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The Trouble With Wives
Overview: William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but hopelessly gauche pal, Al Hennessy (Sterling). Dagmar, a Parisian shoe designer (Esther Ralston) has come to town to meet with Hyatt and Hennessy, and Hennessy describes the situation to Grace in the worst possible manner, convincing her that her husband is having an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-28
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In Old California
Overview: Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-31
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Air Raid Wardens
Overview: Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-04
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Hollywood Hotel
Overview: After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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The Falcon Strikes Back
Overview: The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Our Gang Story
Overview: Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Chinese Parrot
Overview: The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Overview: Mabel has two suitors, Smith and Jones. Smith is an elderly man who impetuously sweeps everything before him, and his dashing ways win Mabel's heart. Poor Jones is downcast when he learns that Mabel is to marry Smith, and follows Smith home. He learns that Smith is already married and has ten little children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-12
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It's a Wonderful World
Overview: Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Whose Baby?
Overview: Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-08
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The Fight Pest
Overview: The Fight Pest is a silent movie short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-12
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The Family Group
Overview: Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-18
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The Booster
Overview: The Booster is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-24
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All Parts
Overview: All Parts is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-27
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Imagine My Embarrassment
Overview: Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Is Everybody Happy?
Overview: Is Everybody Happy? is a silent movie short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-29
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Chasing Husbands
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-22
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Off to Buffalo
Overview: Off to Buffalo is a comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Great Gobs!
Overview: Charley and Edgar on shore leave in Mexico, fight for the affection of a pretty senorita.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
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Night Owls
Overview: Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been happening on his watch or else he will get the sack. He persuades vagrants Stan and Ollie to rob the chief's house so he can regain his reputation by catching them. The policeman promises to later get the boys off. Things do not go as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-04
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The Love Thief
Overview: Chester Conklin steals some hot dogs from the traveling vendor and brings the lady some flowers, then a chase ensues including a chase over roof tops and a lot of rapid-fire action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-22
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Perfect Day
Overview: Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-10
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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 Finishing Touch
Overview: Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants his money back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-25
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Leave 'Em Laughing
Overview: Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mistake. Under the influence of laughing gas, they leave and cause much commotion on the road annoying a traffic cop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-28
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Bacon Grabbers
Overview: Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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Two Tars
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered motorists. A minor collision sets off an escalating series of retaliations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-03
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Unaccustomed as We Are
Overview: Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-04
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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 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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Twenty Minutes of Love
Overview: Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-20
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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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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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A Thief Catcher
Overview: Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-19
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Giggle Water
Overview: Edgar Kennedy and family builds a boat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-27
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Penguin Pool Murder
Overview: New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-09
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Overview: In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
Genres: Action History Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-17
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Little Big Shot
Overview: A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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Son of the Border
Overview: An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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When Comedy Was King
Overview: A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-29
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Small Town Girl
Overview: Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Little Orphan Annie
Overview: Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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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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Racing for Life
Overview: Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with embezzlement.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-08
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Tillie and Gus
Overview: Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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The Cowboy Millionaire
Overview: Englishwoman falls for dude ranch cowboy but goes back to England when she thinks he's only pretending. But he follows her to England.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1935-04-25
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True Confession
Overview: A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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Flirting with Danger
Overview: Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Three Men on a Horse
Overview: A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-21
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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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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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Mad Holiday
Overview: A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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The Girl from Monterrey
Overview: Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-04
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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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The Marines Are Coming
Overview: Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-19
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Good Housewrecking
Overview: Edgar Kennedy and his family open a home decorating service, even though they have no clue what they are doing. The day of their first job, they make the mistake of going to the wrong house. The man of the house is not pleased with all the noise they are making and spends most of his time punching Edgar throughout the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-15
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Art in the Raw
Overview: Aspiring artist Edgar, with family in tow, relocates to Greenwich Village - according to his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law the right environment for him to be inspired.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-23
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The Golden Princess
Overview: A story of greed and lust driven by gold fever. Rapacious Kate Kent abandons her daughter Betty to run off with Tom Romaine, her husband’s killer during the Gold Rush. A quindecinnial later Betty heads to California and partners with Tennessee, a freind of her father’s, in the Golden Princess Mine. Kate and Romaine try and dupe Betty into believing he is Betty’s father to get control of her portion, but Tennessee reveals the truth and after an attempt on their lives all works out as it should.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-05
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The Sky Pirate
Overview: The Sky Pirate is a 1914 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-18
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Love and Bullets
Overview: Love and Bullets is a 1914 Comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-04
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Super-Sleuth
Overview: A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Money Means Nothing
Overview: At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-14
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A Blasted Event
Overview: Mrs. Kennedy tries to convince Edgar that he would make a good father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-06
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Thieves
Overview: Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-01-07
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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 Merchant of Menace
Overview: Edgar and his family buy and run a department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
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Algy on the Force
Overview: Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a frock coat. A woman reports the theft of her watch by a thief with a soft hat and a frock coat and Algie goes out looking for the thief. He meets the chief of police and arrests him after a chase and a fight, and handcuffs his prisoner to a telegraph pole while he goes for assistance. The Captain's consternation can be imagined when he arrives with his men and finds his chief a prisoner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-05
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Hey! Hey! USA
Overview: While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. Upon landing on the American coast Twist takes up work as a professor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Overview: Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-29
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Fatty’s Plucky Pup
Overview: Four bad men have kidnapped Fatty's girlfriend and plan to kill her. Fatty's dog knows where she is, but Fatty doesn't and he was crying. However the dog came back to get Fatty, and they and the Keystone Cops went to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-27
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Will Power
Overview: Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a fake heart attack. Then, while he is supposed to be recovering, he taps into a source of mystical will power to do the rest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-05
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Dumb Daddies
Overview: Max mistakes his son's acting for reality. When the play calls for the son to commit a murder (on a mannequin), Max winds up trying to hide the body from the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-03
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Overview: Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Moan & Groan, Inc.
Overview: The gang goes digging for treasure in an old abandoned house against Kennedy the Cop's wishes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-07
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Overview: When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Living on Velvet
Overview: A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-02
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Something for Nothing
Overview: 16th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-09
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The Other Fellow
Overview: Comedian Edgar Kennedy teaches a driving safety lesson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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He's a Honey
Overview: Harry Barris wants to get married to Eleanor Hunt, but there's an impediment in the way, so he tells her he'll sing "I Surrender, Dear" during his broadcast if they can be wed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-17
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Professional Sweetheart
Overview: Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-09
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Tramp Trouble
Overview: Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. At the train station Edgar intervenes, keeping another man from beating a young man named Frankie, and Edgar takes Frankie home with him, even though the stranger warns Edgar that the young man is nothing but trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-07
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Remedy for Riches
Overview: A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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The Better 'Ole
Overview: The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-23
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We're Rich Again
Overview: A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Now's the Time
Overview: In this short, Mary Carlisle is in love with Harry and they have a fight and she storms off. At the same time, Mary's father (Edgar Kennedy) has recently remarried and he's sick of his wife talking about how great Harry Barris is! And, on top of that, when Edgar meets Harry it ends very badly for Edgar!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-12
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The Little Girl Next Door
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-28
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The Great Alaskan Mystery
Overview: The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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Beaux and Errors
Overview: To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them. In addition to getting worn out playing golf, Edgar overhears a phone call that makes him think Vivien is arranging to run off with his hated rival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-05
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Dumb's the Word
Overview: Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for having it!! This is because President Franklin Roosevelt has actually campaigned Congress to make gold ownership illegal in order to force people off the gold standard as well as to try to get more currency into circulation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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Gridiron Flash
Overview: A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-06
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When's Your Birthday?
Overview: Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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The Silver Streak
Overview: A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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Wrong Direction
Overview: Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) gets a call from the studio to come in and direct the last scene of a film in production. But, before he can leave the house, his wife Florence (Florence Lake) and her Mother (Dot Farley) make him dress the part with riding breeches, a beret, an ascot, a crop and riding boots, and this rig is met with much derision by both cast and crew when he arrives at the studio. Carol (Jean Fontaine), the star of the movie doesn't want Edgar as the director and makes things difficult for him, especially after she hears the producer (Nat Carr) tell him he is limited to making no more than two shots on any scene. Meanwhile, Florence, Mother and Brother (Billy Eugene)decide to drop in on the set and watch Edgar at work. Because of his relatives or Carol, Edgar is forced to shoot the same scene over and over.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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When the Wind Blows
Overview: Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burglar, a local policeman is called, but he seems incompetent to catch either the phony burglar or the real one who has shown up in the meantime
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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Woman Wanted
Overview: Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Overview: Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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There's One Born Every Minute
Overview: A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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The Bride Comes Home
Overview: A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Limousine Love
Overview: On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-13
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Private Snuffy Smith
Overview: A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Anchors Aweigh
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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The Gangsters
Overview: An amusing burlesque of gang fighters. The police go after them, one by one, and each guardian of the peace is caught and despoiled of his clothing and compelled to return to the station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-29
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The First Seven Years
Overview: Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-01
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Peeping Pete
Overview: This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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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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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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Safe in Jail
Overview: Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-07
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Rastus and the Game Cock
Overview: Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-03
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Love and Rubbish
Overview: Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-14
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A Noise from the Deep
Overview: Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-17
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The Riot
Overview: When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-07
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Mabel's New Hero
Overview: Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-27
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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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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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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 Ride for a Bride
Overview: A Ride for a Bride is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Virginia Kirtley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-08
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A Flirt's Mistake
Overview: When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-12
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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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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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In the Clutches of the Gang
Overview: In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-17
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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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A Bath House Beauty
Overview: Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a charming and delightful dance. Unfortunately, the bathing beauty has a husband with pistols...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-12
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Scarlet River
Overview: Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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The Great Vacuum Robbery
Overview: A couple hatch a novel plan to rob a bank: they'll crawl down a heating duct and use a vaccum cleaner to suck the money out of the vault.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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The Battling Fool
Overview: William Fairbanks stars in this fighting feature about a rural rube who enters the ring to earn prize money to help a crippled girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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The Wrong Mr. Wright
Overview: Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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The Black Doll
Overview: Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-31
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Going Ga-Ga
Overview: Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-05
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A Pair of Tights
Overview: Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get the ice cream even close to the car where the rest are waiting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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Diplomaniacs
Overview: Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-28
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Trent's Last Case
Overview: Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-31
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Westward Passage
Overview: A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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Fatal Lady
Overview: On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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Captain Tugboat Annie
Overview: This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-17
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Overview: Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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The Real McCoy
Overview: Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Their First Execution
Overview: A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first execution. The victim, with careless disregard for their feelings, makes his escape from the prison. The sleuth goes in pursuit, and finding the discarded convict's garb dons it as a disguise, hoping to meet the hunted man and ingratiate himself. Prison guards capture the sleuth, and disliking to disappoint the waiting crowd, decide to execute him. He is placed in the chair and the current turned on, but he stubbornly resists death. The current is doubled and trebled, to no avail. Meanwhile the real criminal has been captured, and he is brought back in time to save the sleuth from his perilous position.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-14
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Dollar Dizzy
Overview: Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money. Charlie gets word that a rich uncle has died, leaving him millions. Attorneys advise him to repair to a resort and avoid gold diggers. Once there, word spreads among the single women, and several try to ensnare him. At first he's gullible, then he cottons on, so when Thelma, a wealthy young woman, mistakes him for a fortune hunter, he dismisses her as well. A manager's error puts Charlie and Thelma in the same suite, and both think the other is prospecting. A dressing gown, radio, bare feet, pistol, keyhole, fountain pen, bedcovers, and a suspicious hotel detective join the mix-up. But wait, was the inheritance a mistake?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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Bangville Police
Overview: A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-24
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Moonlight and Monkey Business
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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The Noise of Bombs
Overview: Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-19
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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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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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Yours for the Asking
Overview: Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-23
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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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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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Hearts and Flowers
Overview: A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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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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Mabel's Busy Day
Overview: Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-13
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Mabel at the Wheel
Overview: A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-18
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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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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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Fatty’s Reckless Fling
Overview: Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-04
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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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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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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Overview: Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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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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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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Love Fever
Overview: An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-11
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The Head Guy
Overview: Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-11
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The Big Kick
Overview: Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fellow with a cheery and spunky girlfriend. A shootout between treasury agents and the gang - they transport the hooch in manikins seated in a touring car - takes place in front of Harry's filling station. While Harry's gal stays outside, Harry carries the liquor-filled dummies into the station. Will there be a reward for the heroics of Harry and his honey?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Heat Lightning
Overview: A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Baby Daze
Overview: Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he discovers that his wife is about to have a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-18
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Rendezvous at Midnight
Overview: There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who actually confessed to the killing before it was committed.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-11
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They Had to See Paris
Overview: Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-18
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Hurdy Gurdy
Overview: A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring. The tenants are a cross section of melting-pot culture: Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian dialetcs create a rich aural mix on the sound track. As small talk is exchanged among the residents of different floors, an off-camera hurdy-gurdy supplies an often ironic counter-point to the action
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-10
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King for a Night
Overview: A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Overview: A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-05
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Quiet Please!
Overview: In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot find peace on the Pullman train he is traveling on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-10
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Gasoloons
Overview: While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it themselves - but they aren't very good at it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-03
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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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Looser Than Loose
Overview: Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Ladies Last
Overview: The boys boycott the girls when they insist that the boys wear tuxedos to a big dance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-06
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Doctor's Orders
Overview: Alabam is lovesick. He tells Mickey how he can't get close to the girl of his dreams; he's overheard by Dave, a smooth operator, who insists that Alabam leave everything to him. He contrives to have Alabam and Mickey wreck Alabam's car in the girl's front yard, then he arrives, posing as a doctor, asking the residents of the house if they'll let the injured boy come inside while the doctor examines him. Meanwhile, Mickey gets a look at the girl's cousin and feigns injury so that now both lads are in beds upstairs while Dave, the doctor, conjures foul-tasting treatments. The fly in the ointment is the girl's crusty uncle, who may stand between the lads and their true loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Everything's on Ice
Overview: Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-05
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Wall Street Blues
Overview: A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-09
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Feed 'em and Weep
Overview: Anita and Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max's diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the passengers fill the diner and all want meals immediately. This film only survived in parts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-08
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Mutiny in the County
Overview: 53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-03
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Gangs Of The City
Overview: Heiress Bonnie Parker, tired of newspaper stories about her society high-life, gives a false story to energetic reporter Bill Raymond, who has frequently pestered her for a scoop. When Bill is dismissed for the phony item, Bonnie realizes that she carried the prank too far.....
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-30
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The Big Squawk
Overview: Shy Charley tries to win his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-25
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Kid Millions
Overview: A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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Stepping Out
Overview: Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-02
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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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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Overview: Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-30
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Little Billy's Triumph
Overview: Little Billy wants to buy some ice cream with the dime his mother gave him, but the neighborhood bullies have other plans for that dime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-28
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Angora Love
Overview: Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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Cross Fire
Overview: Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-28
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Oh! What a Nurse!
Overview: Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Ruth Miller, Gayne Whitman, Matthew Betz, Edith Yorke, and David Torrence. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 7, 1926.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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Hold 'Em Jail
Overview: Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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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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My Old Dutch
Overview: The story that inspired Albert Chevalier to write his immortal Costermonger song, 'My Old Dutch', is the story this picture tells of London's quaint and sturdy tradesmen - her humble vegetable peddlers
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-23
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Rough on Rents
Overview: Comedy Short
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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$1,000 a Minute
Overview: Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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The Quarterback
Overview: A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-15
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Margie
Overview: Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to snag "banana king" Gomez (Mischa Auer) for a lucrative radio contract. The old 1920s tune "Margie" is heard throughout the proceedings, frequently fitted out with ludicrous new lyrics ("Bananas! We're Always Thikin' of Bananas!" etc.) by a zany songwriting team (Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-01
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Sandy Is a Lady
Overview: Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-21
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It's Your Move
Overview: Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-10
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Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Overview: Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-14
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Unfaithfully Yours
Overview: Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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Carnival Boat
Overview: Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants Buck to take over when he retires. Buck is in love with Honey, a show-girl on the carnival boat, but she won't live in a lumberjack camp.
Genres: Adventure Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-19
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All Teed Up
Overview: Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-16
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Madame Q
Overview: An attractive young woman on trial for murder employs her feminine wiles to charm the judge and jury.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-08
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Dad's Day
Overview: A middle-aged dad gets no respect from his ungrateful family at home, so he goes to the beach for the day. The family decides to go too, bringing the daughter's obnoxious boyfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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Quick Millions
Overview: A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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High Gear
Overview: The gang is out for a drive on a Sunday afternoon. When it starts to rain, they take shelter in an abandoned building. Unbeknownst to them, it is actually a gangster's hideout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-28
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Fifty Million Husbands
Overview: An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of their visit.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-23
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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Next Door Neighbors
Overview: Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-28
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Poisoned Ivory
Overview: Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she accidentally poisoned Edgar instead of giving him his real medicine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-16
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Edgar Hamlet
Overview: A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-04
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An Apple in His Eye
Overview: Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien's charity bazaar with predictable results.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-06
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Drafted in the Depot
Overview: Edgar Kennedy's hunting trip with his single buddies is kiboshed when his wife, Vivien, has made other arrangements for their vacation time. One of Edgar's friends thinks he has a way for Edgar to go hunting with them. He should pretend to join the National Guard, who are holding a two week camp. In reality, Edgar will have only rented a uniform to convince Vivien that he has joined. Two things may threaten Edgar's plan. First, Vivien, regardless of if she trusts her husband or not, may want to see him off at the train station, which would force him onto the train going to the guard camp. And second, if he can fool Vivien that he is joining the National Guard, he may have also convinced the National Guard that he has joined for real. But in carrying out his plan, Edgar may get into even bigger trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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High and Dry
Overview: Comic antics with Clyde Cook and buddy Edgar Kennedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-24
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In Love at 40
Overview: Edgar falls in love with another woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-29
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Laugh It Off
Overview: Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Murder on the Blackboard
Overview: There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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Paths to Paradise
Overview: Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-28
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Variety Time
Overview: Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-21
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The Guide
Overview: Clyde Cook working as a guide at a snowy mountain resort.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-11
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Hotter Than Hot
Overview: Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-17
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He Loved the Ladies
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-21
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All of Me
Overview: A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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Puppets of Fate
Overview: Gabriel Palombra, a Venetian Punchinello Street show operator decides to move to America leaving his wife, Sorrentina, behind, with a promise to send for her. In the United States, disillusioned, he takes a job as porter in a barbershop, but when he is rewarded for returning a lost pocketbook, manicurist "Babe" Reynolds persuades him to bet on a winning horse. Under her influence he rises to wealth. Meanwhile, Sorrentina arrives in New York and takes work as a flower girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-28
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Hold Your Temper
Overview: When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-05
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I'll Fix It
Overview: Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-07
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Westward Ho-Hum
Overview: Edgar, his wife and his brother-in-law are riding through the desert in a convertible to see a restaurant that Edgar has purchased sight unseen. They camp in a ghost town and Edgar sees a "Gold Nugget Restaurant" sign and it dawns on him that is his purchase. Inside, Edgar runs into two outlaws who force him to drive them to the next town. Unknown to Edgar, Sally lassos the renegades out of the back seat, while Edgar drives on in his (usual) blissful state of ignorance.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-15
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Heaven Only Knows
Overview: Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot. The angel has been sent from Above to save Donlevy's soul, and to that end encourages the one-time villain to squire a minister's daughter (Jorja Curtwright) rather than his usual dance-hall girls. Donlevy is also given tips on winning against his enemies without resorting to gunplay. The gambler finally redeems himself with Heaven by rescuing the angel from a lynch mob (how can you lynch an angel?) Heaven Only Knows deserves an "E" for Effort for bringing a fresh twist to the venerable western genre.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Hitler's Madman
Overview: In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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San Francisco
Overview: A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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Rockabye
Overview: A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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'Curses!' They Remarked
Overview: Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-05
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'Taint Legal
Overview: Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wife Vivien who tell him about their engagement and elopement. Then Viviens father tells them that according to a law he has found in a law-book, they aren't legally married. After a series of misadventures, they learn that the law is a new one and that the Kennedy marriage is legal.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-25
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Girl Shock
Overview: Charley suffers a hysterical reaction whenever a woman touches him; a psychiatrist attempts to help him overcome his panicked reflex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-23
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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Overview: Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-21
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Dummy Ache
Overview: Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Ears of Experience
Overview: In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rough edges, but when he becomes to insistent about giving his master a bath, the always-irritable Kennedy throws the valet in the hot tub, clothes and all. Meanwhile, his father-in-law has been putting the squeeze on Edgar's boss, telling him that Edsgar has fallen heir to so much money he is going to buy out the business and fire his boss. So the boss comes to Edgars's home and fires him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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Sunk by the Census
Overview: Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to support him. All Pop wants to make him happy is a cow. When Edgar comes home with both a cow and a phony rich widow, the results are not what Edgar planned for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-06
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Clock Wise
Overview: Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Love on a Ladder
Overview: Florence wants to recapture the romance in her marriage and talks a reluctant Edgar into redonning his navy uniform and serenading her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-18
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Prunes and Politics
Overview: Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-07
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A Quiet Fourth
Overview: Edgar decides the 4th of July fireworks celebration in town is too much for his nerves, and he and his wife Sally and her brother will take a nice drive out into the countryside and have a nice, peaceful picnic. His first mistake is inviting the sons of his neighbor to go with them, and his second is picking an Army artillery firing range as the location of the picnic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-19
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Scandal Street
Overview: Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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Crazy Feet
Overview: Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-07
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Vocalizing
Overview: Edgar is pressed into taking a singing lesson late at night - which leads to hijinks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-23
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Fish Feathers
Overview: Edgar's mother-in-law claims that Edgar can't fish. Edgar is determined to prove her wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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A Clean Sweep
Overview: Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to work everyday. He answers a want-ad for a job selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He makes no sales, especially after he fills an apartment hallway with trash to demonstrate his cleaner and then finds there is no electricity to run the machine. He comes to a house where a bridal shower is being held, with his wife in attendance, and she thinks Edgar has brought the cleaner as gift for her friend. Edgar has to take the last of their money out of the bank to pay for the demo model he had. The bank manager shows up at Edgar's house to offer him his bank job back, but Edgar's wife won't let him go back, as she has found the prefect job for Edgar... selling vacuum cleaners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Brick-a-Brac
Overview: In this episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series, Edgar Kennedy lays bricks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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A Trailer Tragedy
Overview: Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance company, who repossess the trailer for non-payment. Edgar discovers that Pop had failed to mail the money order he had given him for the payment. He also finds some other items Pop failed to take care of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-17
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Bad Housekeeping
Overview: Edgar Kennedy's wife decides he should do the housework for the day, the same day the piano tuner Franklin Pangborn comes by.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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His Luckless Love
Overview: His Luckless Love, starring Edgar Kennedy, has some funny moments as confusion surrounds the maid’s new beau.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-18
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A Scoundrel's Toll
Overview: Slapstick comedy about a poor and unlucky life of a inventor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-17
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Cooks and Crooks
Overview: A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-05
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Duck Soup
Overview: Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Help Wanted, Female
Overview: A new housekeeper, her son, and two not-too-bright burglars wreak havoc at a doctor's office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-11
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Welcome Danger
Overview: A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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Four Times Foiled
Overview: Snooky continually rescues a couple of small children from the depredations of adults.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-11
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Hot Foot
Overview: Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his best-laid plan takes another direction. His mother-in-law gives him a foot bath in a tub with what turns out to be quick-setting cement. His pal Sam drills a hole in the cement to blow the cement off with explosives, with a typical-Kennedy result... disaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-15
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Crazy House
Overview: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Bad Company
Overview: A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-16
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Going Crooked
Overview: A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-12
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Feather Your Nest
Overview: Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the scene, Edgar reluctantly pays for an engagement ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-23
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Radio Rampage
Overview: When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house doing this simple project is a foregone conclusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-28
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Across the Pacific
Overview: Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
Genres: Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-02
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Sandy Gets Her Man
Overview: A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Pardon My Stripes
Overview: Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-26
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Finger Prints
Overview: A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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The Golden Age of Comedy
Overview: A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Maid to Order
Overview: Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-27
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Edgar & Goliath
Overview: Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the tractor he won at the county fair. But his neighbor demands some of the tree money as some leafs are hanging over his property. Edgar, on the tractor, ruins a warehouse, smashes a fire hydrant, wrecks a streetcar and tears up the concrete road pavement. Edgar is hauled to court and has to pay the damages. At home, when he yanks the tree out of the ground, it crashes down upon his car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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Kennedy the Great
Overview: A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life of the party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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What, No Cigarettes
Overview: There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and reluctantly with Florence's mother and brother. Without Edgar's consent, Florence, mother and brother have decided that Edgar will temporarily move in with brother, while mother will temporarily move in with Florence, giving mother's room to her visiting brother, Wilbur. Uncle Wilbur, an entrepreneur, promises to set brother up in one of his companies, making Edgar's dream come true of getting brother out of his house. But chain smoking Uncle Wilbur vows to renege on his promise unless Edgar can get him some cigarettes after he himself runs out. Edgar may have some problems as there is a cigarette shortage, every smoker clamoring for what few supplies there are. If Edgar can't get cigarettes, he may have to resort to Plan B, which may not be as easy as he imagines. Regardless, lazy brother may do whatever he can to thwart Edgar's plans if only to remain unemployed and in Edgar's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-13
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Why Is a Plumber?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-30
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You Drive Me Crazy
Overview: Edgar lets his brother-in-law borrow his car (mistake no.1), and soon gets a call from Brother that the car won't start. Edgar borrow's his neighbor's car (mistake no.2) to go haul in his stranded vehicle, and immediately wrecks it. He then goes to buy a replacement car for his neighbor from "Miracle Sam - The Used Car Man" (mistakes no.3 through no.8) and drives off without insurance. Meanwhile...Brother has gotten Edgar's car started, and anybody not anticipating the upcoming two-car wipeout collision between the cars driven by Edgar and Brother are watching their first Edgar Kennedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-07
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The Big Beef
Overview: Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems and several slow-burns. The double-take slow-burn comes when the meat arrives in the form of a live, 1000-pound steer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Overview: A henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-14
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The Gas Station
Overview: Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Motor Maniacs
Overview: Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is coming to claim his bride. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law (Jack Rice) has bought an interest in an outboard motor that is supposed to run all day on a cupful of gas. The suitor says he will finance it if the test is a success. Edgar is accidently pulled into the lake with the motor and it works well, but the "rich" beau says he will finance it as soon as he can find somebody to finance the drilling of his first oil well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-26
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Trouble or Nothing
Overview: Edgar's brother-in-law persuades Edgar to indulge in a little betting at the race track, and Edgar loses $900. While entertaining a banker to get on a loan, for a supposed worthy purpose, the bookie's henchman shows up demanding to be paid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-25
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I'll Build It Myself
Overview: Edgar Kennedy, never the one to spend money on a project when he can do it himself and spend twice the money with disastrous results, forgoes hiring a builder to add a new room on the family abode, and contracts himself and family members to do the job. Edgar, doing any job is a recipe for failure, and when his ditsy wife, daffy brother-in-law and domineering mother-in-law are part of the construction crew, failure turns to catastrophe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-18
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Bombs!
Overview: A World War 1 slapstick comedy from Keystone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-07
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Little Accident
Overview: A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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The Bowling Match
Overview: An amusing bowling match between Messrs. Sauer and Kraut. The balls and pins are manipulated by an electric magnet and perform some queer antics. There is, of course, the usual roughhouse finish, with Ford and Mabel in the important parts. Good fun, without offense.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-29
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Do or Diet
Overview: Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections, put him on a strenuous reducing program that nearly kills him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-10
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An Incompetent Hero
Overview: Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-12
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Zuzu, the Band Leader
Overview: A comedy short with Ford Sterling impersonating a band leader and a flirtatious Mabel Normand creating trouble between her admirer, Caesar, and the leader.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-24
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Brother Knows Best
Overview: Edgar, not willing to admit to Florence (Florence Lake) that they are broke, is forced by her to give Brother (Jack Rice) a $1000 check. Edgar, in an effort to get the money to cover the check, decides to pawn Florence's diamond bracelet. Edgar doesn't know that Brother (a real jewel) has already hocked the bracelet and substituted a paste one in its place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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Dig That Gold
Overview: Edgar has an argument with his next door neighbor concerning a spite fence the neighbor is building between the two properties, Then Edgar gets the idea that there is buried treasure on the neighbor's side of the fence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-25
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Contest Crazy
Overview: Florence (Florence Lake) has entered and won a radio contest sponsored by the company Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) works for, but the contest has a rule against employees or family members winning. Florence, determined to collect her prize, schemes to get Edgar fired.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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She Loved Him Plenty
Overview: “ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-11
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What Fur
Overview: 1933 film short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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The Wandering Two
Overview: 13th episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-28
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Inferior Decorator
Overview: Edgar and his family go into business as interior decorators.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-13
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The Stolen Triumph
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-11
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All's Swell on the Ocean
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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The Night Message
Overview: The Lefferts-Longstreet feud is renewed when young Harney Lefferts is shot accidentally by Lem Beeman, telegraph operator and suitor of Elsie Lefferts. Evidence points to Lee Longstreet, Elsie's true love, and Beeman does not confess until Lee is tried, convicted, and sentenced to die.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-17
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