Kalla Pasha
Also Known As: Joseph T. Rickard, Kalla Pascha, Kala Pasha
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Birthday: March 05, 1879
Deathday: June 10, 1933
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Show People
Overview: Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-20
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West of Zanzibar
Overview: A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-24
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Seven Footprints to Satan
Overview: A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
Genres: Crime Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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Heads Up
Overview: Bored with his daily routine, Breckenridge Gamble accepts a secret mission from some oil magnates to deliver a message to President Losada of the South American Republic of Centralia. Upon his arrival, Gamble learns from Angela, the president's daughter, that her father has been imprisoned by Cortez, the leader of the revolutionaries. Gamble also is imprisoned but frees all the prisoners as well as himself by impersonating the prison comandante. After forming an army, Gamble delivers the message--a large money draft sufficient to pay the army and secure President Losada's government--and is rewarded with Angela's love.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-02
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Yukon Jake
Overview: Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-07
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Racing Hearts
Overview: Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-15
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Chasing Husbands
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-22
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Thirty Days
Overview: John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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The Quack Doctor
Overview: In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-04
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Hotsy-Totsy
Overview: Hotsy-Totsy is a 1925 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-20
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Call a Cop
Overview: Wacky shenanigans ensue when our gang of merrymakers "Call a Cop"!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-26
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Inbad the Sailor
Overview: Inbad the Sailor is a 1923 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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Scarem Much
Overview: Scarem Much is a 1924 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-23
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Wandering Waistlines
Overview: The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-05
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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The Devil Dancer
Overview: An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-03
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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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Hearts and Flowers
Overview: A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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Black Oxfords
Overview: In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-18
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A Deep Sea Panic
Overview: A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on board, disguised as a sailor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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Down on the Farm
Overview: The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-17
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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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Shanghaied Lovers
Overview: Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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On Patrol
Overview: Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-12
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A Good Scout
Overview: A snappy young book agent reforms and becomes a cook for a group of Boy Scouts.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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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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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Overview: Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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The Cat's Meow
Overview: Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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The Dove
Overview: Norma Talmadge plays a Mexican saloon singer, known as 'The Dove.' She is romanced by a young caballero and menaced by a Villa-like brute of a dictator, played by Noah Beery.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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His Supreme Moment
Overview: John Douglas, a down-on-his-luck engineer, takes his sweetheart, Sara Deeping, to a play starring Carla King, and he falls in love with the actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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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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Scaramouche
Overview: A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
Genres: History Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-15
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The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Overview: Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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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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Don Juan's 3 Nights
Overview: A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-04
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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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When a Man Loves
Overview: A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-21
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The Dictator
Overview: A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-25
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One More Chance
Overview: Bing Bangs (Crosby) is a salesman for "Magic" washing machines and his demonstration of the machine at the beginning of the film results in disaster. Crosby later gains a transfer from Hoboken to California and he drives his wife Ethel and her Uncle Joe (who dislikes Bing) in an open car on the journey having many adventures en route. Uncle Joe presses Ethel to divorce Bing and marry a more desirable suitor called Percy Howard. Ethel, Joe and Percy are dining in a California night club when the announcer refers to the sponsor, the Magic Washing Machine Company and introduces their singer. It is Crosby and he sings "Just One More Chance" and he and Ethel reunite.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-15
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The House of Flickers
Overview: The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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