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Her Fractured Voice (1917)
Character: N/A
Released June 11, 1917, Her Fractured Voice is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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The Floor Below (1919)
Character: N/A
Snub Pollard and his friend are clearly under their wives thumbs. But his grandfather turns up and tells them to assert themselves, which they do. Her father is not impressed.
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Looking for Trouble (1919)
Character: N/A
Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight definitely does not go anything like expected.
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Call for Mr. Caveman (1919)
Character: Adorable
A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.
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What'll We Do with Uncle? (1917)
Character: N/A
Artist Henry is wildly jealous of his girl Flossie so when he sees her in the arms of another man he overreacts and tries to end it all in a variety of over the top ways. Even when Flossie explains he still tries to end it all until word comes that his uncle has died and left him a million.
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Start Something (1919)
Character: N/A
Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist.
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Order in the Court (1919)
Character: N/A
Snub is confronted by his creditors who have joined the profiteers. He then escapes from them only to be pressed into jury service, which has its brighter side when he finds himself seated beside a fair member of the jury. The fun commences when all his creditors are marched into court charged with profiteering, and as foreman of the jury Snub gives out the verdict of "Guilty."
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It's a Hard Life (1919)
Character: N/A
A henpecked husband goes out on a series of adventures. He is pursued by cops and detectives and joins the Salvation Army in an effort to escape.
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Red Hot Hottentotts (1920)
Character: N/A
Rivalry over a girl in this country moves to the heart of Africa, where the principals get into difficulties with man-eating cannibals.
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Why Go Home? (1920)
Character: N/A
'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.
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Getting His Goat (1920)
Character: N/A
Snub's many humorous experiences in attempting to transport his goat home. Comedy short directed by Charley Chase.
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Bud's Recruit (1918)
Character: Edith's Sister
This WWI home-front comedy is the earliest surviving film of King Vidor, who would later go on to make such classics as The Big Parade and The Crowd. A two-reeler, it's a propaganda comedy involving a little boy who can't wait to go fight against the Kaiser, and who sets an unrelentingly patriotic (and militaristic) example for his draft-age, feminized brother and peace-lovin' mother.
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Condemned (1923)
Character: The Girl
Unable to pay train fare for a pet, a girl disguises her dog as a baby. It is later mistaken for a kidnapped baby.
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Fighting Mad (1917)
Character: Lily Sawyer
Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
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High and Dizzy (1920)
Character: The Girl
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
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His Royal Slyness (1920)
Character: Princess Florelle
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
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Safety Last! (1923)
Character: The Girl
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
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I Do (1921)
Character: The Girl
Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.
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Haunted Spooks (1920)
Character: The Girl
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
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Never Weaken (1921)
Character: The Girl
A young man schemes to drum up business for his girlfriend's employer but after seeing her being intimate with another man, he attempts to commit suicide.
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A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
Character: The Girl
An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
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Grandma's Boy (1922)
Character: His Girl
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
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Temporary Marriage (1923)
Character: Hazel Manners
Temporary Marriage is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Kenneth Harlan, Mildred Davis, and Myrtle Stedman.
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From Hand to Mouth (1919)
Character: The Girl
As a penniless man worries about how he will manage to eat, he is joined by a young waif and her dog, who are in the same predicament. Meanwhile, across town a dishonest lawyer is working with a gang of criminals, trying to swindle an innocent young heiress out of her inheritance. As the heiress is on her way home from the lawyer's office, she notices the young man and the waif in the midst of their latest problem with the authorities, and she rescues them. Later on, the young man will have an unexpected opportunity to repay her for her kindness.
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All Wrong (1919)
Character: Betty Thompson
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
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Now or Never (1921)
Character: The Girl
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
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Too Many Crooks (1927)
Character: Ceia Mason
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
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Dr. Jack (1922)
Character: The Sick-Little-Well-Girl
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
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A Weaver of Dreams (1918)
Character: Margery Gordon
Unrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men who got away, but happiness lays ahead for one while hopeful dreams sustain the other.
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Number, Please? (1920)
Character: The Girl
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.
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An Eastern Westerner (1920)
Character: The Girl
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.
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