Harry McCoy
Also Known As: H. McCoy
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 09, 1889
Age: 135 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 01, 1937
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The Masquerader
Overview: Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-27
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
Overview: A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-09
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A 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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Heads Up
Overview: Bored with his daily routine, Breckenridge Gamble accepts a secret mission from some oil magnates to deliver a message to President Losada of the South American Republic of Centralia. Upon his arrival, Gamble learns from Angela, the president's daughter, that her father has been imprisoned by Cortez, the leader of the revolutionaries. Gamble also is imprisoned but frees all the prisoners as well as himself by impersonating the prison comandante. After forming an army, Gamble delivers the message--a large money draft sufficient to pay the army and secure President Losada's government--and is rewarded with Angela's love.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-02
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Mike and Jake as Heroes
Overview: By deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-17
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Hello, Mabel
Overview: Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-08
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Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Overview: Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-24
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How Heroes Are Made
Overview: It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in appearance, falls desperately in love with the girl, but she spurns him. He bribes two young men to kidnap the girl, in order that he may play the hero and rescue her. However, he does not know that one of the "kidnappers" is the young man whom Mabel really is in love with, and his confidential friend, who, of course, delight in the deception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-14
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Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Overview: Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-16
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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 Face on the Barroom Floor
Overview: A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-10
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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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His New Profession
Overview: Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-31
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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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Mabel's Blunder
Overview: Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-12
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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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Stick Around
Overview: A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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Dirty Work in a Laundry
Overview: After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-19
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A Village Scandal
Overview: Hitchcock comes to a small town, where the chickens and pigs run about the streets as numerous as the people. His purpose is to amuse and entertain the populace by wonderful feats of magic and sleight-of-hand. His plans are all set awry by his sudden infatuation for Flora Zabelle, who plays the hotel waitress and sweetheart of Fatty Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-12
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Fatty's Magic Pants
Overview: 'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-13
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Merely A Married Man
Overview: A Keystone slapstick comedy Harry McCoy & Mae Busch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-11
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Those Bitter Sweets
Overview: Harry takes girlfriend Mae out for a ride in his Chevy but has to contend with romantic rival Dell, another one of Mae's suitors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-07
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Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance
Overview: Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-07
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Fatty and Minnie He-Haw
Overview: Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-20
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Taming the West
Overview: The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and Ferdie (Neely Edwards) buy themselves a couple of cowboy suits, then head out west. They flirt with the pretty bar maids, knock out the local banditos with golf balls and play some poker. It's slight, low-key and amusing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-15
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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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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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Her Birthday Present
Overview: Two thieves burgle a necklace from a policeman, but then begin to quarrel between themselves, leading to a shootout.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-14
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A Movie Star
Overview: The star of a film attends a public showing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-26
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Saved by Wireless
Overview: Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up headquarters in an underground refuge from which they direct their operations. They are engaged in an effort to steal a valuable code book from Prime Minister Cogley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-21
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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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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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Cinders of Love
Overview: Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-26
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Her Torpedoed Love
Overview: A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-13
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The Regeneration
Overview: At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-12
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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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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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The Property Man
Overview: Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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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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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 Faithful Fido
Overview: Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-19
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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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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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That Little Band Of Gold
Overview: A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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A One Night Stand
Overview: Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-22
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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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For Better - But Worse
Overview: Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pants, and Mae Busch's outfit certainly suggests Mabel's usual urban outfits -- although hers was fairly standard at the time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-21
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Put and Take
Overview: The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-07
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High & Dry
Overview: Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-12
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Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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His One Night Stand
Overview: Film directed and starring Harry McCoy
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Peanuts and Bullets
Overview: A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-12
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A Lucky Leap
Overview: A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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After the Dough
Overview: The boys, applying for free bread, find that the sign is used as a stall by a bootlegger who is dispensing hooch hidden in the loaves. After breaking one, they finally get another, and preparing to drink it they run afoul of a policeman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-05
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A Bear Affair
Overview: Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-28
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Ambrose's Lofty Perch
Overview: King Ambrose chooses a queen from among the maidens of his kingdom. After they are married, Robin, a young man the queen had known earlier, attempts to steal her from her royal husband. Robin shoots arrows with notes attached and the queen initially runs away with him. The queen, however, rejects her former suitor in favor of the king after Ambrose saves her from a snake. Her rejected suitor plots with the jester to bomb the palace but their plot backfires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-02
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Ambrose's Fury
Overview: A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-24
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Because He Loved Her
Overview: Sam Bernard in the kitchen cooking up something for his loved one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-16
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His Second Childhood
Overview: This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father falls for him, needless to say and there is another suitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-26
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The Garage
Overview: Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-11
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A Hoosier Romance
Overview: Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her life of drudgery is brightened by John, the hired hand, but when he asks for her hand in marriage, the old man flies into a rage and discharges him. Soon an aged but wealthy widower courts Patience, and although she still loves John, "Old Jeff" orders her to marry the widower, claiming that a father's will is the law.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-18
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Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
Overview: Mabel Normand stars in this comedy short in which she has a world of trouble with her rival lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-05
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Mabel’s Nerve
Overview: Mabel attempts to master a bucking horse as it speeds towards a cliff with Mack hot on her trail!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-16
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Her First Kiss
Overview: Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minnie Spuds, the gawky farm girl who Chester tries to swindle. Whether dangling from a ladder, teetering over a cliff in a horse-and-buggy, or wielding a mop, Minnie may be from the sticks but never misses a beat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Project, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2013.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-30
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His Cool Nerve
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-12
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The Doctored Affair
Overview: Harry and Tillie are preparing to elope when her dad appears and boots his would-be son-in-law out of the house. Tillie is locked up in her room, and to regain her liberty feigns illness and apparently swoons. Dad is troubled and telephones for a doctor. Harry, who is hovering around the corner, sees the doctor coming and bribes him to help him in a scheme to see Tillie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-27
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A Tangled Affair
Overview: Two young men are aspirants for the hand of Mabel, Henry and Ned, Ned, walking through the park, accidentally bumps into a gouty old gentleman who furiously resents the shock, and Ned amuses himself by tapping the gouty foot with his cane and keeping out of reach of the lunges of the old man. When he calls at Mabel's home he finds to his consternation that the old gentleman is Mabel's father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-24
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Hubby’s Job
Overview: Hubby is out of work, and wifey is working as a stenographer, posing as a single woman, in an employment agency. The boss is in love with the pretty typist. He tells her he wants a man right away, and she telephones her husband to come down. He gets the job, which is that of porter. While hubby sweeps the floors and cleans the cuspidors, the boss is holding wifey's hand in the private office. Another suitor, who, also, does not know the stenographer is married, tries to see her and is kicked out by the boss. He tells his troubles to the porter, and then rushes off to tell the boss's wife, for revenge. Hubby listens at the door and is caught by the boss, who tips him to stop spying. The boss's wife, a two-hundred-pounder, arrives just as hubby has gotten up his courage to heat up the boss, and a lively scrimmage ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-19
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Nobody's Sweetheart
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-04
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Sweet Dreams
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-06
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Some Tomboy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-22
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Snappy Eyes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-01
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Her Fortunate Face
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-06
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Her City Sport
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-23
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