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Her Rustic Romeo (1918)
Character: The Widow
A Billie Rhodes comedy produced by Strand. Billy Bevan plays the farmer's son.
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Bill's Opportunity (1918)
Character: N/A
Bill Zuursnik works as a shop assistant in a department store. His wife wants him to go into the oil business. He convinces his wife that he is doing just that, while in fact he is working in the lingerie department while his boss is away. He does so well in this department that he is promoted. When his wife finds out, she is furious at first, but after the initial shock she is quite happy with his promotion.
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'Curses!' They Remarked (1914)
Character: Blackheart Jr.'s Wife
Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
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Court House Crooks (1915)
Character: Young Man's Mother (uncredited)
A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the side; Misplaced jewelry and a message written on a mirror lead to the DA's undoing.
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The Plumber (1914)
Character: The Maid
This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues will not hold many surprises for those familiar with Keystone in this period, or, indeed, with the works of the Three Stooges, who often played inept plumbers. It is, nonetheless, very nicely performed, especially by Charles Murray who mugs it up freely and ineptly, as well as the pretty girl who plays the house's maid.
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Their Social Splash (1915)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the minister shows up, Charles Murray and a drunken Polly Moran manage to cause quite a fuss.
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Ambrose's Fury (1915)
Character: maid
A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
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Almost a Rescue (1913)
Character: Maud Smith
Almost a Rescue is a 1913 movie starring Donald MacDonald and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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Love in Armor (1915)
Character: The Sweetheart's Mother
Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas...
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Peanuts and Bullets (1915)
Character: The Landlady
A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.
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A Lucky Leap (1915)
Character: The Store Owner's Wife
A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
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Hearts and Sparks (1916)
Character: The Stenographer
Hearts and Sparks is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) and starring Gloria Swanson. When Mack Sennett first saw Gloria Swanson, he felt that she would be right as a romantic lead for Bobby Vernon because they were both small in stature. This was their first film together and they proved to be a big hit with the public.
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Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
Character: Woman
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
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One Romantic Night (1930)
Character: Princess Sympharosa
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
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Crossing Trails (1921)
Character: Mrs. Warren
Helen, wrongly suspected of murder, escapes to the refuge of Jim's Ranch, where love soon blooms.
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Mothers of Men (1917)
Character: Undetermined Role
Dorothy Davenport as Clara Madison, a prominent lawyer, wins a judgeship over fellow Attorney Grant Williams, played by Willis L. Robards. Upon winning the prominent position as judge, Ms. Madison finds herself walking a political tight rope with enemies all around doing what they can to cause her down fall. Judge Madison convicts a murderer to death paving the way for her to be easily elected as the first female Governor. As Governor she is faced with a difficult dilemma. She has the power to pardon her husband who has been convicted of a serious crime, but to do so she’d be using her office for her own personal gain. “I must find some way to realize my ideals without sacrificing my husband. I must struggle on somehow for the sake of womanhood!”
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The Claw (1927)
Character: Mrs. Harriatt
Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin, whose infatuation with Major Kinsella takes her to Africa where native uprisings and the jealous connivings of Maurice Stair await her.
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Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers (1915)
Character: Mrs. Finnegan
When a rich 'mothball magnate' checks into a hotel with his family, the mashers come out of the woodwork to woo his daughter (Fatty Arbuckle). The scene shifts to the beach where the buxom heiress becomes stranded on a rock, where she is sunbathing, when the tide comes in; An hilarious rescue effort ensues.
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The Wyoming Wildcat (1925)
Character: Blendy Betts
Cowboy Phil Stone gets a job as foreman on a ranch owned by pretty young Isabel Hastings. He discovers that ruthless rancher Jeff Kopp has a claim on Isabel's ranch, and that if she dies unmarried before she turns 21, Kopp will get her ranch. When Isabel turns down a marriage proposal by Kopp's son Rudy, Kopp decides to kill her and get the ranch for himself, and hires a notorious killer, "Cyclops", to do the deed.
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The Tragedy of Youth (1928)
Character: Landlady
Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature lover Frank Gordon. Lost film.
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The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920)
Character: Margaret O'Doone
Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that he is dead, Margaret goes into a state of delirium which enables Buck Tavish, a long-time admirer, to carry her away to his cabin. When she finally comes to her senses she flees in search of Michael, leaving Marge behind.
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Cinders of Love (1916)
Character: The Fire Chief's Wife
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
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The Amateur Gentleman (1926)
Character: Duchess of Camberhurst
Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.
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Night Work (1930)
Character: Miss Brown
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
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The Fighting Smile (1925)
Character: N/A
A cowboy who has been away from home for a long time returns, only to find that the area he grew up in has been taken over by a vicious gang of cattle rustlers--and that his closest friend from boyhood is one of them.
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The Masquerader (1914)
Character: Actress (uncredited)
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Character: Maid / Party Guest (uncredited)
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
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