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Crazy to Act (1927)
Character: Mrs. St. John
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
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Save The Ship (1923)
Character: Mother-in-law
'Save the Ship' is a plotless silent short film which has the 33 year old Stan Laurel acting in a run of the mill production to pay his bills and as a token by Hal Roach.
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A Man About Town (1923)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
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Bashful Jim (1925)
Character: Theatregoer
Shy Ralph Graves is inspired by a movie hero to go after the girl he loves (Alice Day). A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short.
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The Campus Carmen (1928)
Character: Woman in Balcony
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
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Family Life (1924)
Character: Mother Duff
The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.
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The Rodeo (1929)
Character: Mabel's Mother, Jimmy's Mother-in-Law
The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
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Free and Easy (1921)
Character: N/A
Campers on a vacation have all the comforts of home fitted into their Ford car. Eggs are fried on the hot engine, and coffee is percolated in the radiator.
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The Lion's Whiskers (1925)
Character: Victoria's Mother
Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a building. This stunt is funny and rather realistic. Second, Billy looks in a keyhole at what he THINKS is a lady taking a bath--and she's soon joined by a man!
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Honeymoon Hardships (1925)
Character: Farmer's Wife
A newly married couple go to spend their honeymoon far out in the country with demented relatives who laugh off even the worst disasters. The couple are forced to sleep apart,The beds are rock hard, the food is inedible,and the farmhouse leaks in the middle of a fierce rainstorm. On top of everything else, a hick uncle with a large family pay a sudden visit.
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His Unlucky Night (1928)
Character: Hotel Manager's Wife
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.
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Smith's Baby (1926)
Character: Mabel's Mother, Jimmy's Mother-in-Law
Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.
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Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
Character: Wedding Guest
Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the uncle's valet, Briggs (William Demarest). until such time as Elmer marries, and that he appears at the office of the probate judge (Douglas Gerrard), at 5 P.M. on an appointed day. Complications arise as a result of the valet's determination to ruin the arrangement, and the equal determination by Elmer and his sweetheart Annie (Louise Fazenda) to see that he doesn't.
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From Rags to Britches (1925)
Character: Aggie O'Malley
Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
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Over Thereabouts (1925)
Character: Mrs. Mooney
Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
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Peaches and Plumbers (1927)
Character: The Plumber's Mother
To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
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Love's Last Laugh (1926)
Character: Ruth's Mother
Ruth Hiatt is the object of Raymond McKee's affections, but her mother, Sunshine Hart, and a bogus Baron, Kewpie Morgan, are providing him reasons to be uneasy in his courtship. Most of the action is set around a swimming pool on a ship.
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Galloping Bungalows (1924)
Character: Olive Palmer - Diana's Mother
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
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The Hollywood Kid (1924)
Character: Self
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
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My Best Girl (1927)
Character: Ma Johnson
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.
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Syncopating Sue (1926)
Character: Landlady
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to complain about her loud piano under him, and she haughty replies that if he gives her a chance on stage, she will do it.
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A Scoundrel's Toll (1916)
Character: The Daughter's Maid (as Miss Sunshine)
Slapstick comedy about a poor and unlucky life of a inventor.
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The Best Man (1928)
Character: The Bride's Mother
A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
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Isn't Love Cuckoo? (1925)
Character: Mrs. Dodge - Peggy's Mother
An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged.
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The Girl from Nowhere (1928)
Character: N/A
Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.
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The Burglar (1928)
Character: Mabel's Mother, Jimmy's Mother-in-Law
A man, accidentally locked out of his house is mistaken for a burglar as he attempts to re-enter the house. The gag is that the person mistaking him, is an actual burglar thinking the man to be a rival to his score.
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When a Man's a Prince (1926)
Character: Katinka - Queen of Jestphalia
The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by J.J.Balaber, called Grand International Pictures, acquired 1,300,000 feet of Mack Sennet films with the intentions of editing 26 short comedies from them. The first of these was a 13 minute short edited from "When a Man's A Prince" and released on June 18,1947 as the first of the "Americana Comedy Film Classic Series."
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A Sea Dog's Tale (1926)
Character: Wedding Guest
An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.
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Wall Street Blues (1924)
Character: The Fat Woman with the Dog
A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
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