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Love 'em and Feed 'em (1927)
Character: Martha, a stenographer
A pair of gold prospectors (Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy) try to make their way in the big city. *Only reconstructed fragments exists.
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Bromo and Juliet (1926)
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
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The Rat's Knuckles (1925)
Character: Flirty McFickle
Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
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Seeing Nellie Home (1924)
Character: N/A
The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by taking a pretty girl back home, wreaks havoc trying to get her in, then discovers that she's married.
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A Ten-Minute Egg (1924)
Character: Mrs. Dugan
The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe."
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Outdoor Pajamas (1924)
Character: Girl with Runaway Pony
This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another.
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Too Many Mammas (1924)
Character: The Apache Dancer
Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.
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Say It with Babies (1926)
Character: Hector's Wife
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
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Sure-Mike! (1925)
Character: Vermuda
Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she relies on her friendship with the store manager. But she is soon disillusioned as to where she really stands with the manager.
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A Punch in the Nose (1926)
Character: N/A
A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.
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There Goes the Bride (1925)
Character: Imogene-the Bride
What bridegroom could be romantic with a swollen jaw and a yelling tooth? His young bride thinks that's no excuse!
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Sherlock Sleuth (1925)
Character: Hotel Telephone Operator
House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel," who is on the loose in the hotel, assisted by a sultry vamp. Plenty of hilarious gags along the way; including the operator taking a call from an irate lodger, so hot that it makes the switchboard steam. Taking advantage of the situation, she pulls out the offending plug and curls her bangs. The MGM lion even puts in a guest appearance.
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Laughing Ladies (1925)
Character: N/A
Lucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the patients. On this occasion when a girl arrives at his office with an aching molar, he administers even more than the usual quantity. Under the influence of the laughing gas, she leaves the office and trips blithely along through all kinds of dangerous traffic, makes love to a married man while his wife looks on and succeeds in getting herself into several difficulties. In the meantime the dentist pursues with a restorative.
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Four Days Wonder (1936)
Character: Nancy Fairbrother
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
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The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)
Character: Chorus Girl Who Hears 'My Country Tis of Thee' (Uncredited)
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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The Little Yellow House (1928)
Character: Emmy Milburn
Emmy Milburn must decide. Should she go back to the life she had dared so much to lose, or should she pay the price and live in luxury?
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Should Tall Men Marry? (1928)
Character: Martha Skittle
This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted cowhand Stan bumble their way into a successful defense of her and the ranch.
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Taxi 13 (1928)
Character: Flora Mactavish
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
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Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Character: Nancy Clark
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Mum's the Word (1926)
Character: The Nervous Little Girl
A widow has married rich, but didn't tell her husband about her son. And he's coming for a surprise visit. To hide his identity he is introduced as the husband's new valet, but still the husband has some doubts about a few strange scenes. And during the night, when the son tries to visit his mother, the husband always starts interfering, but the new maid also behaves strangely, trying to sneak into the husband's room...
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Thundering Fleas (1926)
Character: Bride
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Madame Mystery (1926)
Character: N/A
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
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Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Character: Party Girl (uncredited)
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Bombshell (1933)
Character: Lola's Hair Stylist (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Midnight Mary (1933)
Character: Barbara
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.
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Along Came Auntie (1926)
Character: Marie, the Maid
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
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A Tailor-Made Man (1931)
Character: Corrine
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
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Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
Character: Harriet Mundy
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
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Fluttering Hearts (1927)
Character: Daughter
Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retrieve a compromising letter.
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Spitfire (1934)
Character: Eleanor Stafford
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
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Jewish Prudence (1927)
Character: Rachel Gimplewart
Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
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Hollywood Party (1934)
Character: Show Girl (uncredited)
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
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Great God Gold (1935)
Character: Marcia Harper
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.
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Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
Character: Lucille
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.
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War Nurse (1930)
Character: Helen
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
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Two Sinners (1935)
Character: Elsie Summerstone
An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but along with her comes the boisterous little Collins, for whom she is a governess.
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Better Movies (1925)
Character: Teenaged 'Vamp'
The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were problems as those not involved are trying to ruin their business by playing pranks and even insisting the police to close them down.
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West of the Pecos (1934)
Character: Ril Lambeth
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
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Crazy Like a Fox (1926)
Character: The bride
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927)
Character: The Fiancée
Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.
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All Wet (1924)
Character: Boarding house maid (uncredited)
Charley Chase has car trouble.
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What's the World Coming To? (1926)
Character: The Butler
Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Katherine Grant goes tomcatting around town.
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Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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Flaming Fathers (1927)
Character: Daughter
Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.
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Rhythm on the Range (1936)
Character: Constance Hyde
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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Broken Dreams (1933)
Character: Martha Morley
Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.
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Our Blushing Brides (1930)
Character: Evelyn Woodforth
Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Jerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.
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Plain and Fancy Girls (1925)
Character: Fiance
Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eventually he realizes he is better off with his no-frills girl.
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The Royal Razz (1924)
Character: N/A
A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.
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Huddle (1932)
Character: Barbara
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
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Bad Boy (1925)
Character: Jimmie's Girl Friend
In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everything. His father wants him to act more manly, although Jimmy gets his sensitivity from his mother. He wants to wed his girlfriend, and so accepts a job at his father's iron foundry, but does not excel there. Next, Jimmy goes to a tough dance-hall to impress his girl. A highlight is his parody of an Isadora Duncan dance.
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Danger Street (1928)
Character: Kitty
Rolly Sigsby, a society clubman bitterly weary of life, wanders into the middle of a gunfight between the organized gangs on the lower East side in the hope that he will be killed by a stray bullet.
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Madam Satan (1930)
Character: Fish Girl
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
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Pass the Gravy (1928)
Character: Daughter
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.
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Innocent Husbands (1925)
Character: Girl at Party (uncredited)
Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
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Big Red Riding Hood (1925)
Character: Book store clerk
Jimmy Jump is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purposes "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so he tries reading it at the book shop, something the owner doesn't like. But with a little help by the owner's wife it is not impossible, even when the book is bought by somebody else, put in a car and the car is stolen...
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The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Character: Mary Gallagher
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
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The Scoundrel (1935)
Character: Julia Vivian
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
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Sweet Daddy (1924)
Character: Daughter
Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the station for a little girl. He takes one by mistake, narrowly escapes being arrested as a kidnapper and finally meets the niece, who is an over-dressed, ultra-modern young woman. The time between trains is spent in trying to hide the dog from the policeman, and when Jimmy puts his charge on the train, he feels that he has done a week's work in a day.
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Penthouse (1933)
Character: Sue Leonard
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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Long Fliv the King (1926)
Character: Princess Helga of Thermosa
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
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