Dot Farley
Also Known As: Dorothea Farley, Dorothy Farley, Mrs. Farley
Biography: From Wikipedia Dot Farley (February 6, 1881 – May 2, 1971) was an American film actress. She appeared in 280 films between 1910 and 1950. Mainly known for her roles in short comedies, prolific with Mack Sennett in the silent days; she was later notable as the Mother-in-law of Edgar Kennedy in most of his series of short films at the RKO studios. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in South Pasadena, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 05, 1881
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 02, 1971
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Getting a Raise
Overview: First in a series of shorts based on J. P. McEvoy's Tuttle Family characters. Pa Tuttle (Lucien Littlefield), with three kids to feed, strives to talk his skin-flint boss, (Dell Henderson), of a raise. Boss has an attitude that faithful employees should be happy just to be working for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-17
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Love Your Neighbor
Overview: After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-12
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Radio Kisses
Overview: Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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Swell People
Overview: A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-24
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Young April
Overview: Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-11
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Why Leave Home?
Overview: Fox musical.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-01
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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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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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A Rented Riot
Overview: While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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Fixing a Stew
Overview: Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until he decides to sober up permanently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Brooding Eyes
Overview: Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out about this, they conspire to cheat her out of her inheritance by passing off one of the gangster's girlfriends as the real daughter. Unbeknownst to the gang, however, their leader isn't dead and finds out what they're up to. Complications ensue.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-15
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Rugged Water
Overview: After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-17
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Astray from the Steerage
Overview: While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-23
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A Punch in the Nose
Overview: A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-03
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The Girl from Everywhere
Overview: Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-11
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The Bicycle Flirt
Overview: Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother, Henry, puts pressure on his sister to leave Billy, telling her to find a man who is more industrious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-18
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The Girl from Nowhere
Overview: Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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Hubby's Weekend Trip
Overview: Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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The Stranger from Arizona
Overview: A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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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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Peril of the Plains
Overview: The first Warner Brothers production. The production was shot in St. Louis, Missouri.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-16
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Calling Hubby's Bluff
Overview: Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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Love Past Thirty
Overview: When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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A College Chicken
Overview: A College Chicken tells the story of a chicken that is stolen multiple times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1910-08-03
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Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
Overview: Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-08
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Pitfalls of a Big City
Overview: Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-02
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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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Weak But Willing
Overview: Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal, including a seductive Jean Harlow who tries to pick him up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Overview: Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-30
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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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Harmony at Home
Overview: This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-12
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Murphy's I.O.U.
Overview: Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's jewelry. She thinks she has been robbed and reports the matter to the police lieutenant. Amusing complications result in which Murphy's duplicity is exposed, and his wife administers punishment for his offense.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-17
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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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False Pretenses
Overview: A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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His Chum the Baron
Overview: Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-28
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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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The Paperhangers' Revenge
Overview: Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-30
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The Little Irish Girl
Overview: Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-06
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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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Traffic Tangle
Overview: A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-02
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
Overview: Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-22
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Too Many Wives
Overview: An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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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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The Signal Tower
Overview: A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-19
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He Trumped Her Ace
Overview: He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-23
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A Woman of the World
Overview: A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-28
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Wine
Overview: Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-13
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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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Some Nerve
Overview: Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-25
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Slander House
Overview: Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-04
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Road to Paradise
Overview: Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-20
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The Overland Stage
Overview: At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wizard with the lariat.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-31
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The Code of the Scarlet
Overview: Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang. Through a ruse, Kenton manages to infiltrate the gang, which is holed up in the lawless community of Caribou Flats. While in the employ of villainous trading post operator Jack Blake, Kenton discovers that Blake is not only the leader of the gang but also the man who murdered Helen's brother.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-01
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Disappearing Enemies
Overview: A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies. Both are coming over to visit and spend the night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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On His Wedding Day
Overview: When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-31
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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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A Fishy Affair
Overview: A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-24
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A Strong Revenge
Overview: Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-09
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The Garden of Eden
Overview: Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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While Paris Sleeps
Overview: To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-08
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Bright Eyes
Overview: An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-24
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We Have Our Moments
Overview: A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-28
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Picking Peaches
Overview: A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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Wanted: Jane Turner
Overview: Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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They Won't Believe Me
Overview: On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-16
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The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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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: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-03
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Curtain at Eight
Overview: An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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One Cylinder Love
Overview: A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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The Red Kimona
Overview: A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-16
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Big Money
Overview: In the fifth of WB's Potter Family series, based on the characters created by J.P.McAvoy, Pa Potter (Lucien Littlefield) gets a job as a professional divorce-case correspondent. He is hired by a lawyer to make love to the wife of a man seeking a divorce. The problem is that Pa forgets to tell Ma (Lucille Ward) it is all make-believe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-30
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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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The Law of the Tong
Overview: A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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Looney Lions and Monkey Business
Overview: The adventures of an escaped convict.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-23
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-03
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The Ranchman's Vengeance
Overview: Lorenz Pedro, a Mexican half-breed, owns a small sheep ranch, and lives happily with his wife Marie and little daughter Lois. One exceedingly hot afternoon, Tom Flint, riding across the ranch looking for work is overcome by the heat, and Pedro, acting the part of a good Samaritan, takes him to his home, where Marie, through careful nursing, soon has him quite himself again. Pedro is out daily with his flock, leaving Marie and Flint together, offering an opportunity which Flint ungratefully takes advantage of, resulting in his completely winning Marie's love. Manuelito, Marie's father, is suspicious and comes upon them while Flint is declaring his love.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-14
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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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Lawless Valley
Overview: After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-03
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Celebrity
Overview: Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-10
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So Big
Overview: After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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Trapped in Tia Juana
Overview: An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-14
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Golf Widows
Overview: Women won't let potential son-in-law marry her daughter unless he can get her husband to quit golfing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-12
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Love Is News
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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San Fernando Valley
Overview: A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-15
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His First Flame
Overview: Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-02
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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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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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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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An Elephant on His Hands
Overview: In this two-reel silent short, Mack gets a letter telling him about a gift/inheritance from India, and it turns out to be two elephants.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-27
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Lawyer Man
Overview: Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Matrimony Blues
Overview: Short film about the title subject played for laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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Breaking the Ice
Overview: Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-04
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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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Down to Their Last Yacht
Overview: Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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A Deaf Burglar
Overview: The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-13
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The Shamrock and the Rose
Overview: The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-14
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I Stole a Million
Overview: A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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The Road to Reno
Overview: An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Little Accident
Overview: On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-03
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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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Bridal Bail
Overview: When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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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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Money Talks
Overview: Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-10
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Obliging Young Lady
Overview: A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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The Acquittal
Overview: When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-19
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The Enemy Sex
Overview: A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-25
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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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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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The Poor Rich Cleaners
Overview: Bud Duncan & Kewpie Morgan take a job as cleaners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-09
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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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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Overview: Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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The King of Kings
Overview: The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-19
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Overview: While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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His Unlucky Night
Overview: Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-12
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Overview: A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-04
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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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Memory Lane
Overview: Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-01
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Cat People
Overview: A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Genres: Mystery Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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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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A Life in the Balance
Overview: A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-14
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Lady Be Good
Overview: Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-06
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The Family Upstairs
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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Even Unto Death
Overview: Dorthea Gordon comes to a fishing village with her ill-tempered brother, Walter. She rows out to a rock to sketch the seals, but her boat drifts away and the rising tide sweeps her into the water. Her predicament is seen by Jack Livingston, the fisherman son of the village minister, and he rescues her. The pair begin seeing one another, but Walter thoroughly disapproves. When a gossip implies that Livingston's attentions are less than honorable, Walter confronts him and is killed in the ensuing struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-01
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The Climbers
Overview: The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-03
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Boy of Mine
Overview: A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and heavy-handed treatment; she leaves and takes Bill with her. The father must decide what's more important--maintaining his iron discipline over his family, or his family itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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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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Look Who's Laughing
Overview: Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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Marquis Preferred
Overview: Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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Tea- With a Kick!
Overview: The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Overview: Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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So This Is Paris
Overview: Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-31
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The Third Alarm
Overview: The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-16
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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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When Knights Were Cold
Overview: Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by an army of knights, but both he and his pursuers ride music-hall half-horse costumes in lieu of real steads. He proceeds to fight, Fairbanks-like, dozens of swordsmen at once, and defeats his rival one-on-one, leaving him to marry the princess in a state ceremony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-12
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Divorce Made Easy
Overview: When his aunt disapproves of his marriage to Mabel Deering and threatens to disinherit him, Percy elicits the aid of his buddy Billy Haskell, who is engaged to Eileen Stanley. It is arranged that Billy and Mabel be found together in compromising circumstances by Percy and his aunt, but matters are complicated by the arrival of Billy's uncle in the city, and Aunt Emma becomes very fond of him. All is subsequently explained and thoughts of "divorce" are smoothed away as Uncle Todd couples up with Aunt Emma, and Billy and Eileen, and Percy and Mabel, reinstitute their carefree engagements.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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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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Sammy's Scandalous Scheme
Overview: Sammy can't get any attention from his girlfriend Dot because all she can think of is Charlie Chaplin. She sends Chaplin an enticing letter and Sammy a rejection, but the two get mixed up, so Sammy dresses up like Chaplin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-01
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What Fur
Overview: 1933 film short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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Counselitis
Overview: Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Vanity's Price
Overview: Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater. She is introduced to Henri De Greve, a millionaire who might help her, but she recognizes him to be her former husband, the father of her son, Teddy, and therefore refuses to have anything to do with him. The shock of seeing him is hard on Vanna, and fearing the loss of her youthful beauty, she visits a physician in Vienna to be rejuvenated. Vanna returns thoroughly changed and even invites the attentions of De Greve when she realizes his interest in Sylvia Grayson, Teddy's sweetheart. Teddy turns against his mother, Sylvia attempts to drown herself, and Vanna lures De Greve to her boudoir, where she discloses his past and gives him a beating with a riding crop. Sylvia and Teddy are reunited and forgive Vanna, who now recognizes the folly of vanity and accepts the proposal of long-time admirer Richard Dowling. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-07
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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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Hail the Conquering Hero
Overview: Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-09
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The Still Alarm
Overview: Lucy Fay leaves her husband, Richard, a fireman, for a suave politician, Perry Dunn. Richard compensates for the loss by adopting Drina, a baby girl whose mother perished in a fire. Drina develops into a beautiful young lady and becomes a model at a modiste shop owned by Dunn and managed by Lucy. Dunn is attracted to Drina and plots to get her alone by giving her a drugged drink. An untimely fire interferes with his plans, leaving Drina drugged and trapped by flames in Dunn's room, where she is sleeping.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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Motorboat Mamas
Overview: Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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Love and Pain
Overview: Jones is engaged to a jealous girl, Ethel. His stenographer has a fainting spell in his office and Jones attempts to revive her. Ethel walks into the office and sees the girl in Jones' arms and bounces out. She sends Jones a note breaking her engagement, and in despair he attempts to commit suicide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-17
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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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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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Nobody's Widow
Overview: Roxanna is married to British official John Clayton, but when she catches John in the apparent embrace of another woman, Roxanna leaves England and goes to visit her friend Betty in America. There she tells people that her 'beloved' husband is dead. Betty's friends take to Roxanna, especially Ned, for whom Betty has strong feelings. Further complications arrive in the presence of John Clayton, who has followed Roxanna and now pretends to be the Duke of Morebay and another potential suitor for 'widowed' Roxanna.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-12
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