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The Sultan's Wife (1917)
Character: Harem Matron
On a sailing trip, sweethearts Bobby and Gloria arrive in a very sinister-looking India, where an evil rajah attempts to force Gloria into his harem.
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Bears and Bad Men (1918)
Character: Maw Cutshaw
Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.
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Papa's Boy (1927)
Character: Woman on Sidewalk (uncredited)
Lloyd Hamilton chasing a butterfly in the slapstick comedy "Papa's Boy".
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The Misfit (1924)
Character: The Domineering Wife
THE MISFIT - starring Clyde Cook, with Blanche Payson and Joe Roberts. A rarely-seen silent comedy short. Henpecked hubby Clyde totes groceries and paints floors for his wifey, escaping at last...by joining the U.S. Marines. The basic training sequence was shot at the Buster Keaton studios; this may be "Big" Joe Roberts' final screen role.
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The Heart Snatcher (1920)
Character: N/A
A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
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Love Pains (1932)
Character: Mrs. Kornman
Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.
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Thirst (1917)
Character: Woman in Employment Agency (uncredited)
A woman has moved to a small town boarding house to seek peace and quiet. All too soon she finds herself in a Keystone movie, where there's everything but.
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His First Car (1924)
Character: 2nd Camping Wife
Al St. John buys a touring car and takes his extended family on a disastrous trip.
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Wife and Auto Trouble (1916)
Character: His Dominant Wife
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925)
Character: Amazonian Dancer (uncredited)
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
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Naughty Boy (1927)
Character: The 'Shrinking Violet'
This is a real corker. It starts off with a terrific routine with an erratic elevator. Lane's character, Johnny Jones, upon sight falls in love with Mary Craig (played by Kathryn McGuire who appears in a number of Lane comedies). The man who hopes to marry her is Henry Sharp played by Wallace Lupino; the title card introducing this character says" Henry Sharp – so mean he would steal a dead fly from a blind spider." Johnny agrees to do his father a favor by posing as his little boy of about 10 years old. The father had told the wealthy widow he hopes to marry that he was only 30 years old. Because of Lane's small stature this is more believable than most comedy routines that have an adult playing a child.
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Half a Man (1925)
Character: Shipwrecked Woman
Laurel plays Winchell McSweeney, whose fisherman parents forced him to leave home and make it on his own when they can no longer afford to keep supporting him. He takes a boat out of the village, but accidentally sets the ship on fire when he attempts to take a photograph of the passengers. The women end up on the island with McSweeney, and is constantly pursued by them, including one Amazon-size girl.
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Crushed (1924)
Character: Mrs. Jones
Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.
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Bringing Up Father (1928)
Character: N/A
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
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A Blitz on the Fritz (1943)
Character: Egbert's Mother-in-Law
Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.
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A Maid Made Mad (1943)
Character: Amazon Hotel House Detective
Andy innocently becomes involved with a female customer; his wife jumps to the wrong conclusion and walks out on him.
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Dollars and Sense (1916)
Character: The Innkeeper's Wife
A country girl and a foppish Englishman are to inherit an estate, and the terms say that it can't be divided: The two must get married, and if one refuses, then the other gets the entire estate. The girl schemes with her twin brother to trick the Englishman out of his part of the inheritance. The girl's corn-fed crush helps out, while the twins' father dreams of being force-fed dog sausage.
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A Sanitarium Scandal (1917)
Character: N/A
The sanitarium run by Lallah Hart is in need of repairs and her nephew (Earle Rodney) is broke and after a loan. In her absence (off with her beau) he rents the place out to a group of (presumably) chorus girls (doubling inevitably as bathing beauties) while having to deal with the arrival of his own fiancée (Myrtle Lind) and her parents (the formidable Blanche Payson and Baldy Belmont) who between them provide most of what few laughs there are and a sheriff (Fritz Schade) with a debt to collect.
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Are Scotchmen Tight (1929)
Character: N/A
Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding every last stick, the other figures out where to put his. In his neighbour's now empty house!
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No Vacancies (1923)
Character: His Better Half
Arrow comedy shot in 1921 but released 2 years later, with an ensemble cast including Jay Belasco, Blanche Payson, Billy Armstrong and Jack Duffy. The plot centers around Jack and his wife who are looking for a place to rent. But what to do when the housing situation is not exactly easy?
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A Social Cub (1916)
Character: N/A
A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson
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The Kid Reporter (1923)
Character: Policewoman
The 'secretary' of a busy newspaperman is revealed to be a cherubic small child, Baby Peggy. When a rich woman's pearl necklace is stolen, Baby Peggy's employer promises to make the reporter who cracks the case Editor-in-Chief. The little girl seizes the opportunity, and - several disguises and chases later, with the grudging aid of the office-boy - duly returns with the jewels to achieve promotion, with all the adults scurrying to serve her.
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Loose Relations (1933)
Character: N/A
The stereotype in old movies and TV shows is that the man hates his mother-in-law. Well, in "Loose Relations" it doesn't follow this convention, as Andy Clyde is actually happy that his mother-in-law is coming to stay with them and he plans on fixing up a place for her to stay. In a funny scene, when he tells his neighbors, they offer his an axe and a gun!
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Estrellados (1930)
Character: Actress at Casting Call (uncredited)
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
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The Suitor (1920)
Character: N/A
Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.
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Hansel and Gretel (1923)
Character: Hansel's mother
This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.
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War Mamas (1931)
Character: Head Nurse (uncredited)
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
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Slander House (1938)
Character: Hilda
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.
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Three Ages (1923)
Character: The Amazon (uncredited)
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
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Helpmates (1932)
Character: Mrs. Hardy
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.
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Blind Date (1934)
Character: Nurse
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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One More Spring (1935)
Character: Wife
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Pop Goes the Easel (1935)
Character: Art Student (uncredited)
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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The Land of Jazz (1920)
Character: The Maid
Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a "heavenly kick," he breaks the engagement. In an effort to win back the doctor for Nancy, Nina pretends to be a bit "off" and becomes an inmate of the sanitarium.
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Wicked (1931)
Character: Matron
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
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Jewel Robbery (1932)
Character: Masseuse (uncredited)
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
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Figures Don't Lie (1927)
Character: Mrs. Jones
Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetching one-piece bathing suit. The main story concerns wise-guy insurance salesman Richard Arlen, who through a combination of hard work and sheer gall lands a job as sales manager. But he can't land heroine Ralston, who has remained cool to his charms ever since he tried to make a play for her on the street.
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The Broadway Melody (1929)
Character: Wardrobe Lady (uncredited)
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
Character: Mrs. John G. Elwood (uncredited)
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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In the Navy (1941)
Character: Hatchet-Faced Woman (uncredited)
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Character: Matron (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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For Heaven's Sake (1926)
Character: Lady on the Street (uncredited)
An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
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Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Character: Large Woman (uncredited)
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
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Tiembla y Titubea (1930)
Character: Formidable Woman (uncredited)
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
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Our Wife (1931)
Character: Turpin's wife
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
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Music Is Magic (1935)
Character: Opera Singer in Music is Magic Number (uncredited)
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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Drifting Souls (1932)
Character: Landlady
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
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Convicted Woman (1940)
Character: Matron (uncredited)
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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Li'l Abner (1940)
Character: Large Woman
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
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Kidding Katie (1923)
Character: Governess
A 1923 Christie comedy starring Babe London and Dorothy Devore. Queenie (London) has sent a picture of her sister Katie (Devore) to her pen pal as if it was her. Now that the pen pal is in love and coming to meet Queenie in person, Katie has to pretend she is a child.
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Kidding Katie (1923)
Character: Housemaid
A 1923 Christie comedy starring Babe London and Dorothy Devore. Queenie (London) has sent a picture of her sister Katie (Devore) to her pen pal as if it was her. Now that the pen pal is in love and coming to meet Queenie in person, Katie has to pretend she is a child.
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Nice Girl? (1941)
Character: N/A
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
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Slippery Silks (1936)
Character: Woman on Street (uncredited)
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
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Red Noses (1932)
Character: Dr. Payson, Physical Therapist
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
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Among the Living (1941)
Character: N/A
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
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The Talk of the Town (1942)
Character: Supreme Court Spectator (uncredited)
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
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Oh, Doctor! (1925)
Character: Dr. Maude - the osteopath
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse. Rufus only has to sign over his inheritance to the greedy trio of Clinch, McIntosh and Peck who along with the doctor are confident he'll live long enough to pay his debt.
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When a Man's a Prince (1926)
Character: Hilda - Princess of Amazonia
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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Dogs Is Dogs (1931)
Character: Spud's Mother (uncredited)
Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.
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The Bachelor's Baby (1927)
Character: Mrs. Boppo
Directed by Frank R. Strayer. With Helene Chadwick, Harry Myers, Midget Gustav, Edith Murgatroyd.
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All Over Town (1937)
Character: Mother Wilson, Landlady
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Masseuse (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Below Zero (1930)
Character: Formidable woman
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
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