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Dining Out (1930)
Character: N/A
Comedy about a man who, reluctantly, spends an evening with his wife at home rather then going out drinking with his friend. When that friend later mistakes the wife for the girl he's been carousing with, it all gets a bit messy.
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The Overland Limited (1925)
Character: Violet Colton
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful Olive Borden.
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The Angel of Broadway (1927)
Character: Goldie
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army girl and attends mission meetings on the East Side for atmosphere. There she meets Jerry Wilson, an honest truckdriver and friend of the Army captain. Although the act is a success, Babe is disillusioned to find Lonnie, a fellow worker who has been romancing her, stealing her money and making overtures to Big Bertha, the hard-boiled club hostess.
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The Lion's Den (1919)
Character: Dorothy stedman
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy grocer in the process.
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Should a Woman Tell? (1919)
Character: Meta Maxon
A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns to her home feeling sullied and ashamed. A young man who had once sought her hand returns from years away in Europe and reiterates his suit.
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The Price of Success (1925)
Character: Ellen Harden
Directed by Tony Gaudio. With Alice Lake, Lee Shumway, Gaston Glass, Florence Turner.
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Runaway Girls (1928)
Character: Agnes Brady
Runaway Girls is a lost 1928 silent film drama directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Shirley Mason and Hedda Hopper. It was produced by Harry Cohn and distributed by his Columbia Pictures, then a fledgling studio.
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The Hurricane (1926)
Character: The Wife
"Hurricane" Jack Foster is a smuggler who ignores his wife and child in order to pursue Marguerite Blair, the unhappy wife of the Chief Ranger of the North West Mounted Police. Foster lays plans for his final theft, after which he will elope with Marguerite, although Blair lays his own plans to thwart his rival. Dispirited over Blair's lack of attention, Marguerite nonetheless calls his office before running away with Foster in a last effort to reconcile with her husband. Marguerite cannot reach Blair but does receive a message that his remoteness has been due to his job rather than "another woman." When Foster then attempts to carry out his plan and knocks out Blair in the process, Marguerite does not hesitate to shoot Foster. With Foster and his gang rounded up, the Blairs reconcile.
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Shore Acres (1920)
Character: Helen Berry
Martin co-owns a farm and its lighthouse on the rocky coast. Banker Josiah induces him to speculate in oil where he loses everything but the banker is willing to forget Martin’s debt in exchange for the latter’s daughter in marriage.
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I Am the Law (1922)
Character: Joan Cameron
Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love with schoolteacher Joan Cameron when he saves her from an attack by Fu Chang.
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The Golden Gift (1922)
Character: Nita Gordon
Nita, a former singer, loses her voice and husband. To support her child, she becomes a cafe dancer. When her husband dies, she leaves her child at a mission. Nita regains her voice, becomes an opera star and reunites with her child.
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The Mystery of the Empty Room (1915)
Character: The Slavey
Ruth and her father stay at an inn run by the malicious Scroogles. The Scroogles rob Ruth's father, throw his seemingly dead body over a cliff, and deny he was ever there when Ruth asks. Ruth seeks help from artist Richard Foster. Together, they find evidence, confront the Scroogles, leading to a struggle where Mr. Scroogles accidentally kills his wife before being shot and dying himself. Ruth and Foster (now engaged) find her father alive but dazed; he recovers, and adopts a mistreated girl from the inn. The traumatic "empty room" incident leaves a lasting impression on Ruth.
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The Grab Bag Bride (1917)
Character: The Girl
A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lovers. Lake is a pretty good stand-in for Mabel, but the husky young man who is supposed to be Arbuckle is pretty much of a nullity. Al is a money-hungry villain, up to no good and achieving no good end.
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The Picture Idol (1912)
Character: N/A
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her parents want to teach her a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.
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Twin Beds (1929)
Character: Mrs. Treejohn
A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Crazy Days (1962)
Character: Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and more.
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Full of Pep (1919)
Character: Felicia Bocaz
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company, notices a pretty girl smiling at him in the station. Since her train soon leaves, all Jimmy learns about her is information on her luggage: her initials and destination, the Central American republic Santo Dinero.
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Cupid's Day Off (1919)
Character: Customer
Heretofore running a shoe store has been considered a quiet, respectable business, but Ben and his partner make the interior of their emporium of fashionable footwear look like the finish to a feature number at a smart cabaret. They also put new life and the joy of winning into a gambling joint, until they are discovered cheating. This so shocks the proprietor and his regular customers that they lose their faith in human nature and send for the police. And so the merry game is kept up.
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Red Lights (1923)
Character: Norah O'Neill
A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
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The Haunted Ship (1927)
Character: Martha Gant
A young sailor named John Shreve on the cargo ship Golden Bought falls for a woman, Mary, who is trying to escape the ship's brutal environment and tyrannical captain, Simon Gant.
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More to Be Pitied Than Scorned (1922)
Character: Viola Lorraine
An actor, Julian Lorraine (J. Frank Glendon), mistakenly believes his wife Viola Lorraine (Alice Lake) has been unfaithful. Complications and tears and scorn follow.
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Nobody's Bride (1923)
Character: Mary Butler
Jimmy Nevins--once wealthy and now engaged to Doris Standish--is reduced to poverty and jilted by her when he is befriended by Mary Butler, the leader of a gang of crooks.
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Environment (1922)
Character: Sally 'Chicago Sal' Dolan
The rehabilitation of "Chicago Sal," a lady crook, is seemingly realized when probation officers send her to the country home of Steve MacLaren to work off money stolen from him by her partner. She falls in love with MacLaren and is accepted as a member of the household. Unable to resist the temptation, however, she leaves the farm with two former colleagues when they come to visit her. MacLaren follows her to the city. She commits a crime; he helps her escape but is himself arrested for vagrancy and sent to jail. Sal returns to the country and promises to wait for him.
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Hate (1922)
Character: Babe Lennox
Gamblers Dave Hume and Ed Felton are rivals for the love of Babe Lennox, a chorus girl. Hume informs on Felton, and though the latter is arrested he is released on bail, and Talbot, the attorney, warns Hume to stay clear of him. Hume, who is in ill health, determines to commit suicide, making it appear that Felton killed him; and (concealing a record of his plans on a small statuette) he makes a wager with Felton that he can do so.
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Modern Matrimony (1923)
Character: Patricia Waddington
Chester Waddington secretly marries society girl Patricia Flynn, a fact that is revealed at a party celebrating her engagement to another suitor. A brawl ensues.
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Blackie's Redemption (1919)
Character: Mary Dawson
Shrewd crook Boston Blackie is determined to go straight. At a celebration held on the eve of his marriage to Mary Dawson, Fred the Count plants a stolen jewel and Blackie is arrested and sentenced to twenty years in jail. Fred the Count tries to win Blackie's fiancée, but the honorable Mary rejects him. Blackie's only hope for escape is from the hospital, so he manages to get into a weakened state. He escapes from the hospital, but is trailed by the warden. Blackie refuses to shoot the defenseless man, and the warden recognizes Blackie as an honorable person and allows him to escape. Blackie frames the Count, and leaves for Honolulu with Mary
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Frisco Kid (1935)
Character: Saloon Girl (uncredited)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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His Wedding Night (1917)
Character: Perfume customer
Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice and begins modeling it, he is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.
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The Hole in the Wall (1921)
Character: Jean Oliver
When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
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Oh, Doctor! (1917)
Character: Maid
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
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Death on the Diamond (1934)
Character: Lucy Warmack (uncredited)
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
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The Girl from Missouri (1934)
Character: Paige's Manicurist (uncredited)
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
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Wicked (1931)
Character: Prisoner
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
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Moonshine (1918)
Character: Moonshiner's Daughter
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arrival of a U.S. revenue agent and his assistant.
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Babes in Toyland (1934)
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
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Uncharted Seas (1921)
Character: Lucretia Eastman
After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse and turns to Arctic explorer Frank, who has long loved her and promised to come back to her whenever she needs his help. A lost film.
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Young Desire (1930)
Character: Sideshow Dancer (uncredited)
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
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The Waiters' Ball (1916)
Character: A Fair Customer
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.
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Stage Mother (1933)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Glamour (1934)
Character: Secretary
An ambitious chorus girl finds fame, marriage, and motherhood with a talented composer, only to leave him for a handsome singer.
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Camping Out (1919)
Character: N/A
Camping Out is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Fatty is the suffering spouse who comes home every night to an empty house and a neglectful wife. His wife is furious when she discovers Fatty is cheating on her with a neglected wife.
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Out West (1918)
Character: Salvation Army Woman
The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a train and chased by Indians. He teams up with gambler/saloon owner Bill Bullhum, in trying to keep the evil Wild Bill Hickup away from Salvation Army girl, Salvation Sue. Fatty and Buster have a series of adventures trying to beat St. John, until they discover his one weakness: his ticklishness.
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A Reckless Romeo (1917)
Character: The Pretty Girl in the Park
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.
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A Desert Hero (1919)
Character: N/A
A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
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The Dancing Cheat (1924)
Character: 'Poppy' Marie Andrews
Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake star in this drama taken from the Saturday Evening Post story by Calvin Johnston.
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Lombardi, Ltd. (1919)
Character: Norah Blake
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm, the manager of a musical review, has promised payment for his girls' lavish costumes as soon as the show makes money. To the dismay of Norah Blake, Lombardi's faithful assistant, who loves him, Lombardi proposes to Phyllis Manning, one of the showgirls, and presents her with his finest creations, while not even attempting to kiss her, as she puts off setting a wedding date and also accepts the attentions of wealthy bachelor Bob Tarrant.
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Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
Character: Crazy Woman
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.
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The Cook (1918)
Character: Waitress / Cashier (uncredited)
In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications is the arrival of a robber.
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The Butcher Boy (1917)
Character: Amanda (uncredited)
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.
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A Country Hero (1917)
Character: Schoolteacher
Fatty plays a village blacksmith in “Jazzville,” an imaginary rural village. There is a rivalry between Fatty and Cy Klone, the garage owner, over the affections of a pretty schoolteacher. A city chap unites the two rivals when he tries to steal the girl. An annual village ball features amateur talent in vaudeville stunts with Keaton as a wriggling Fatima who charms a long black stocking from a cigar box like a snake. The film is presumed lost.
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The Rough House (1917)
Character: Mrs. Rough
Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets the nuptial bedroom on fire, as the residence's cook tries to woo the maid who only has eyes for the charming delivery boy. As one thing leads to another, Mr Rough ends up preparing dinner for a pair of duplicitous guests, when, clearly, he should be staying out of the kitchen. Does Mrs Rough know the visitors' true intentions? But, above all, how will this disastrous dinner party at the Rough house end?
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Coney Island (1917)
Character: Girl at Vanity Table (uncredited)
Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.
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The Marriage Market (1923)
Character: Lillian Piggott
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
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Circumstantial Evidence (1929)
Character: Lucy Bishop
Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland is accused of the crime.
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The Bell Boy (1918)
Character: Cutie Cuticle, manicurist
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.
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Come Through (1917)
Character: Velma Gay
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar.
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Souls for Sale (1923)
Character: Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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The Unknown Purple (1923)
Character: Jewel Marchmont
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.
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The Spider and the Rose (1923)
Character: Paula
In Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that his father's secretary, Mendozza, has seized power. The coup arouses the anger of the revolutionary faction, which forms an alliance with Don Marcello.
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Skyway (1933)
Character: Maizie
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
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