Alice Howell
Also Known As: Alice Florence Clark
Biography: "The scream of the screen". One reviewer likened her to a "sort of Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Max Linder." All this was compressed into "one more or less diminutive package of femininity". Sometimes called "the girl Charlie Chaplin", she worked for Mack Sennett and later L-KO Kompany. Her early comedies were often produced by Universal Pictures.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Birthday: May 19, 1886
Deathday: April 12, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Laughing Gas
Overview: Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-09
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A Coat's Tale
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-08
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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 Junior Year
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-03
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Caught in the Rain
Overview: When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-04
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Pirates of the Air
Overview: The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress discovered the workshop where the proprietor was having the model duplicated and she was bribed not to say anything about what she saw. She started out with the bribe money to buy some gewgaws for herself, but she got in the road of a passing auto. Unfortunately, the auto contained the young Secret Service agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-28
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Bombs and Bangs
Overview: Bombs and Bangs is a 1914 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-17
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The Pride of the Force
Overview: The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-11
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Lover's Luck
Overview: A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-15
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Cinderella Cinders
Overview: Alice Howell plays a working girl who breaks into society through no fault of her own when asked to pose as royalty at a posh party. Spiked punch adds to the hilarity of the proceedings. A silent film inspired by the character of Cinderella, but with the contemporary setting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-01
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The Great Toe Mystery
Overview: A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-25
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Shot in the Excitement
Overview: Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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Neptune's Naughty Daughter
Overview: A Century Film comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-02
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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's Married Life
Overview: Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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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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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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Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Overview: When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-10
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Hoot Toot
Overview: Magnolia Milkshake, having a husband who is exempted because of possessing a disease which might be called "too much fat" is desirous of helping the boys across the ferry mop up Bill Hohenzollern's place, tries very hard to join the Red Cross. After various tests she is finally rejected. Since this plan didn't work out she decides to join the kaiser-killers herself and so enters the recruiting station right next door. Here she is again rejected because of a flat head. Having failed twice she goes home feeling that she needs a little training and uses poor delicate little hubby as the goat. While Magnolia is still hard at work training with some dummies, hubby gets a note from Nicholas Nutmeg inviting him to a game of poker, but also inviting his little bank roll. Magnolia sees the note, becomes furious, and here follow some lively chases which end with hubby in jail and Magnolia trying hard to enlist in the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-28
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Shipwrecked
Overview: Larry O'Neil, a ship's cook, finds and befriends stowaway Lois Austin, who is a fugitive from a murder charge. The ship's captain, Klodel, also finds her and forces her to do his will as he has received a cablegram and knows she is hunted.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-09
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That's the Spirit
Overview: Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-01
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He Loved the Ladies
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-21
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Under a Spell
Overview: When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of things.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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One Wet Night
Overview: It's raining heavily, but at first the young husband and wife are not concerned about it. But the husband gets soaked on the way home from work, and then finds that the butler has left all of his suits hanging outside in the rain. Next, when some friends come to visit, they find that their troubles with water are just beginning.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-13
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Cursed by His Beauty
Overview: Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-31
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Silk Hose and High Pressure
Overview: It all starts when the actress-wife gives a midnight party to her former associates and Bill and Mr. Jowlish try to horn in on the revelry...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-08
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Father was a Loafer
Overview: A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets, who chases him down and exacts comic justice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1915-02-10
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Under New Management
Overview: Web of office romance entanglements lead to slapstick hijinks at a fly paper company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-13
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How Stars are Made
Overview: Comedy short starring Alice Howell
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-14
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In Dutch
Overview: Comedy short starring Alice Howell
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-26
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Distilled Love
Overview: Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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His Wooden Legacy
Overview: A woman played by Alice Howell receives an inheritance from her grandfather of his wooden leg.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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Her Lucky Day
Overview: Alice Howell comedy short
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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A Convict’s Happy Bride
Overview: Alice and Phil's happy home is disrupted when their furniture is being repossessed by a huge bullying workman. To placate him, they try being nice and inviting him to dine with them, but fighting breaks out and the bully pretends to be murdered when a cop shows up, and Phil is sent to jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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The Winning Five
Overview: Chapter 2 of the second series of the Universal Pictures silent serial "The Collegians".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-26
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Their Last Haul
Overview: Both crooks, on the pleading of the girl, determine to turn square but with the provision of turning just one more trick. The first could not foresee that the second had placed a time bomb in the safe when he went to rob it. Likewise, the second could not foresee the other was going to pay a visit to the booty after he had planted the explosive. But worse, neither could foresee that a gang of burglars were contemplating carrying off the safe and that there were police loitering nearby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-21
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Dangerous Pleasure
Overview: This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-11
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Lunatics in Politics
Overview: Two female candidates for Chief of Police live across the hall from each other, and their political rivalry follows them home, leading to plenty of hi-jinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-14
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