Charles Murray
Also Known As: Charlie Murray, Murray and Mack, Murray & Mack, James O'Hara, Charles Albert Murray
Biography: Charles Murray was an American vaudevillian and screen actor, as well as the director of five silent comedy shorts.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Laurel, Indiana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 21, 1872
Age: 152 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 29, 1941
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The Power of the Camera
Overview: Two convicts escape from the city jail and manage to elude their pursuers for quite a while, by contriving a fake motion picture machine and posing as picture producers. But, like many of us, they become over-confident and are finally apprehended by the guard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-17
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Highbrow Love
Overview: Fred was no highbrow, but in spite of all her primness and learning, he fell for Mary's undoubted charm. One day he was handed this communication: "Dear Freddie: I am going to Box Springs to be quiet and alone with by beloved Samuel Johnson, Lovingly, Mary Highbrow." Jealous rage stirred Fred's bosom for his new found rival. He followed, blood in his eye. Mary, the highbrow, however, explained matters to both Fred and Blacksmith Johnson, but Fred at the time was a little worse off for his experience.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-26
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His Honor the Mayor
Overview: Charles Murray is running for mayor. Opponent Eddie Baker has a young woman go into his shoe shop and, while changing stockings, say things that will alienate the women voters; Baker tells her it's a practical joke, and he'll get her boy friend out of jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-22
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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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Breaking the Ice
Overview: The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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The Silent Lover
Overview: The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds while intoxicated; and after spending his last penny on a dancer, he contemplates suicide but is persuaded to enlist in the Foreign Legion. Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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Fools Highway
Overview: Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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The Head Man
Overview: Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-08
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Paint and Powder
Overview: Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy Evarts (Theodore Von Eltz). Jimmy gets in a fight with an East Side tough and finds a wallet on him belonging to a big theatrical manager. Jimmy, however, is accused of being the one who stole it and is thrown in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-16
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Maggie's First False Step
Overview: Maggie's First False Step
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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That Night
Overview: There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor, Trask and Murray, two entertainers, all race to her home with the idea of marrying her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-16
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Percy
Overview: Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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Mismates
Overview: "Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the accustomed luxury and deserts his wife and child. On false information provided by the boy's mother and substantiated by himself the wife is sent to jail and the child kidnapped by the husband. This is where the drama kicks in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-26
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-12
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White Fang
Overview: Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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Soldiers of Misfortune
Overview: Soldiers of Misfortune
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-27
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Such a Cook
Overview: Such a Cook
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-15
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The Anglers
Overview: The Anglers
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-12
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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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Courting Trouble
Overview: When the story begins, Charlie (Charlie Murray) is fighting with his overbearing mother-in-law. The old battleaxe lives with Charlie and his wife and she orders Charlie about as if she's his wife. Charlie wants to go out to the lodge meeting with his pals...and the mother-in-law insists he stay home. An argument (which is way overdone) results but Charlie is able to get away thanks to a friend who pretends to be a cop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-28
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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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Her Friend the Bandit
Overview: A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-04
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For the Son of the House
Overview: In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist the sordid way of poverty and sin. The woman's indulged son, overcome by his weakness and debt, robs his mother. It is then the girl saves the home from disgrace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-20
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The Mothering Heart
Overview: A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beautiful woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his lady friend, remorse drives him to find his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-21
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Red Hicks Defies the World
Overview: Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the champion, O'Shea, the fighting Irishman, to make soft putty of the world famous pugilist, but on the day of the fight there was no O'Shea. The supposition was he did not have the price: and other domestic difficulties interfered. O'Shea's trainer, however, solved the problem and Bed Hicks found his Waterloo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-09
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The Crossroads of New York
Overview: A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-22
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Here We Go Again
Overview: When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-15
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Hard Knocks and Love Taps
Overview: When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-24
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My Son
Overview: A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New England fishing village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-19
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Cinema Circus
Overview: Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-27
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Luck
Overview: A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-01
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Sundown
Overview: Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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Love and Bullets
Overview: Charlie is trying to impress Minnie, who is interested in another fellow, but having trouble with his flirting, so he goes to see a 'Trouble Mender'. The trouble mender-a man who spends his time moving through sliding panels, materializing hillbilly henchmen and himself-comes up with a radical solution, he will kill him. No more life, no more problems! But then Minnie throws over the other guy and Charlie must find a way out of his bargain!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-04
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Fatty Again
Overview: Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the girl's parents. When the truth becomes known that he is really a sideshow barker, they again turn on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-03
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Overview: Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-15
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Flickering Youth
Overview: Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-27
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Her Painted Hero
Overview: A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-20
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The Boob
Overview: To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-17
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The Plumber
Overview: This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues will not hold many surprises for those familiar with Keystone in this period, or, indeed, with the works of the Three Stooges, who often played inept plumbers. It is, nonetheless, very nicely performed, especially by Charles Murray who mugs it up freely and ineptly, as well as the pretty girl who plays the house's maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-09
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Clancy in Wall Street
Overview: Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners for twenty years; but when Clancy accidentally buys some shares on margin, MacIntosh's Scotch thrift rebels and their partnership breaks up. In the meantime, their children are in love...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-14
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Radio Dough
Overview: Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-05
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Circus Girl
Overview: A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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The Hollywood Kid
Overview: A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-19
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McFadden's Flats
Overview: Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock, meets and falls in love with McFadden's daughter Mary Ellen. McFadden, having increased his store of worldly goods, sends his daughter to a finishing school, to young Jock's dismay. McFadden also provokes frequent outbursts from McTavish, whose outlook on life is the antithesis of his own. McFadden's ambition to complete a flat building is well underway when he suddenly finds himself in financial straits; when McTavish secretly helps him out, all eventually works out well for the friends and the young lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-06
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Running Hollywood
Overview: Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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Because of a Hat
Overview: Skelley buys a seat in the orchestra and determines to get his money's worth. No use. Mrs. Van Snoozeheim refused to remove her big hat. But it came off. Skelley did it. That started something with Mrs. Van Snoozeheim's escort. Over the stage they fought, and into the Rathbone Café, and into Higgin's saloon. He took them over to his arena. There were two rounds to the finish.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-16
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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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Where Hazel Met the Villain
Overview: Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-22
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Scotland
Overview: The Cohens and the Kellys travel to Scotland to buy plaid in the hopes that a prince will start a new fashion trend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-01
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The Lady in Black
Overview: Behold in this film the villain up to his dirty work again, but if you watch the persistent young hero carefully, you will see him gallantly rescue the lady in black about to be burned at the stake, while at the same time he saved the fair heroine from the mad ambition of her father about to marry her to the dastardly ex-governor of Utah.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-11
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Almost a Wild Man
Overview: Rooly, Pooly and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity. Consequently they were "canned" by the management. A brilliant idea; one would play the wild man in the village square, a real live show of their own. Rooly and Pooly then basked in the society of fair country belles, but Dooly at length was rescued by Miss Smart, looking for excitement. She was not disappointed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-19
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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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Don't Weaken!
Overview: A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa
Overview: Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-21
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A Bedroom Blunder
Overview: A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-07
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Hypnotized
Overview: A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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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 Girl in the Limousine
Overview: Tony and Freddie, who have been rivals all their lives, vie for the hand in marriage of their childhood sweetheart. Big Freddie has the upper hand when Tony gets himself kidnapped by a ring of muggers whose M.O. is to have one of their members dress up as a woman to lure men into the back seat of their limousine, where they are beaten up and robbed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-20
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Paradise
Overview: After a daredevil demonstration of aviator stunts, Anthony Fortescue-Stirling, more familiarly known as Tony, is cast adrift by his father. He meets Chrissie, of vaudeville fame, at a fancy-dress ball and falls in love with her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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The Life of Riley
Overview: Silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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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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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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The Fire Patrol
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-14
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Sweet Daddies
Overview: Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events. This film is lost.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-06-12
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The Poor Nut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-06
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The Gorilla
Overview: An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-13
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Mike
Overview: A Modest Comedy Drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-10
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Getting Rid of Trouble
Overview: The Newlyweds move into their new flat and prepare to entertain their uncle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-05
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Her Fame and Shame
Overview: A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-24
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The Pill Pounder
Overview: Charlie is a small town druggist trying to wait on trade and play a social game of poker in the back room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-23
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Their Social Splash
Overview: Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the minister shows up, Charles Murray and a drunken Polly Moran manage to cause quite a fuss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-26
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The Devil's Circus
Overview: In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Overview: In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
Genres: Horror Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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Irene
Overview: Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New York City to seek fame and fortune. She gets a job as a dressmaker's model and becomes involved with Donald, the scion of a wealthy family. Donald's mother doesn't approve of Irene and sets out to discredit her in Donald's eyes.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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The Feathered Nest
Overview: Keystone-Triangle comedy starring Louise Fazenda and Charles Murray.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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Trying to Get Along
Overview: Café de Luxe's owner comes back to his restaurant after a vacation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-05
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Overview: The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-27
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Riley's Decoys
Overview: A short comedy about two competing pensions. One is doing well because are two cute girls are staying there, so the owner of the other pension goes also goes looking for two other girls so as to attract customers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-15
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A Barber Cure
Overview: A comedy in which a barber shaves off only half of a customer’s beard and moustache, because that customer has gone on a date with his beloved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-30
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The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Hogan the Porter
Overview: A porter works hard in an understaffed hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-08
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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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From Patches to Plenty
Overview: A poor man finds a bag with a lot of money resulting in a change of lifestyle. But not without complications...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-06
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Oh, Sammy!
Overview: Romance blooms between two Jewish employees in a sweatshop.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-15
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Painted People
Overview: Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their fortunes. Ellie wishes to become a lady so that she can marry Preston Dutton, a society chap, and Don becoming infatuated with Stephanie Parrish, daughter of a wealthy man. Ellie becomes a leading actress and Don the author of her first play. Ellie refuses Dutton’s suit when she learns he is after her money, and Stephanie returns Don’s engagement ring. Ellie and Don go back to the factory town disillusioned. They realize that they love each other and in reality had not bettered themselves for someone else but for each other. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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Rolling Along
Overview: Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-30
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Fishing for Trouble
Overview: George and Charlie go fishing - but things don't turn out exactly as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Stable Mates
Overview: Two bankers, thrown out of work by the Depression, find jobs on a western ranch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-05
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Plumbing for Gold
Overview: George and Charlie get jobs as plumbers assistants; on their first assignment, they reduce a house to shambles in search of a lost ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-29
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Ten Baby Fingers
Overview: Two men find a baby they think is abandoned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Back to the Soil
Overview: Two friends decide to become gold prospectors, and wind up discovering an outlaw's buried treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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His Old Flame
Overview: Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid love letters to his wife if he does not withdraw from the campaign.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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Vamping Venus
Overview: A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-05-13
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Why Women Love
Overview: An oil tanker burns at sea, and Molla Hansen, the captain's daughter, is the only survivor. Her rescuer, lighthouse-keeper Silas Martin, is fatally burned, and begs Molla to look after his daughter, Pearl. Meanwhile, Captain Rodney O'Malley, Molla's grief-stricken fiancé, departs on a long cruise. Two years later, Pearl is seduced by rum-runner Charley Watts, although she blames engineer Ira Meers. Molla learns of Pearl's pregnancy and holds Ira at gunpoint in the lighthouse. When Pearl discovers that Charley is already married, she locks him in the lighthouse tower, floods it with gas, and hurls a lighted lantern at him. Pearl and Charley are killed, but Ira recovers. The explosion signals Rod's ship, and he and Molla are reunited. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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Hogan Out West
Overview: After arriving in a hostile Western town, Hogan meets the Wild West head-on. A shack loaded with dynamite aids his return to urbanity. "Plenty of western color helps to make the production an attractive one apart from its comic attributes. In this film Charles Murray as Hogan is his usual comical self." -The Moving Picture World, March 13, 1915.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-27
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Hogan's Romance Upset
Overview: Charles Murray out romancing in the park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-13
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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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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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A Small Town Idol
Overview: Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-13
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The Four Orphans
Overview: A childless couple hire 4 orphans to scare off a visiting uncle who don't like kids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-28
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Overview: This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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The Reckless Lady
Overview: Set amidst French resorts and featuring gambling casinos and an automobile race, a mother and wife develops a mania for gambling, much to the dismay of her husband and daughter. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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Subway Sadie
Overview: A New York fur saleswoman falls for a man she meets on the subway and must decide if she wants to accept a much dreamed for work transfer to Paris, or stay and get married.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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The Masked Woman
Overview: Baron Tolento lusts for Diane Delatour, his physician's wife, and donates money to their favorite charity, a children's home, in hope of gaining her favor. When Delatour is called away, Tolento inveigles Diane into attending a party at his house. There he threatens to ruin her husband if she does not submit to his demands within three months. Diane retaliates by showing him a letter proving that Tolento has only three months to live, according to a specialist. Delatour learns of his wife's presence at the party from one of the baron's women, and when Tolento makes Diane heir to his fortune, he becomes convinced of her infidelity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-16
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Empty Hearts
Overview: Milt Kimberlin is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging Clara Bow), doesn't care -- she turns down the fancy jewelry offered by oily Frank Gorman for a wedding ring from Kimberlin. Even though his finances never improve, Rosalie sticks by her husband only to sicken and die in a garret. Kimberlin's luck changes almost overnight and he becomes incredibly wealthy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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The Mine with the Iron Door
Overview: This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the cabin belonging to Sonora Jack, a notorious bandit. The girl, Marta, grows to womanhood.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-02
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Up in Alf's Place
Overview: Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-12
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Dangerous Waters
Overview: While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-10
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Around the Corner
Overview: 18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-25
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Bright Lights of Broadway
Overview: An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-06
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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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Lilies of the Field
Overview: A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-29
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Overview: Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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The Cohens and Kellys
Overview: Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerheads, feuding over anything and everything. Kelly's son, Tim, and Cohen's daughter, Nannie, fall in love despite the bickering of their parents; when they cannot get parental consent for their marriage, they secretly wed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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A Fatal Flirtation
Overview: This typically rambunctious Keystone comedy features Charlie Murray as a French count who challenges a rival to a duel over the affections of his secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-25
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Who Cares
Overview: Who Cares is a 1925 silent film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring Dorothy Devore. It is preserved in the Library of Congress's collection. It is based upon a novel by Cosmo Hamilton which had been previously filmed in 1919 as Who Cares? Real-life husband and wife, actors Vera and Ralph Lewis, play grandparents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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A Missing Bride
Overview: A lost comedy short starring Mabel Normand in an unconfirmed role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-18
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