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Good Housewrecking (1933)
Character: N/A
Edgar Kennedy and his family open a home decorating service, even though they have no clue what they are doing. The day of their first job, they make the mistake of going to the wrong house. The man of the house is not pleased with all the noise they are making and spends most of his time punching Edgar throughout the film.
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A Blasted Event (1934)
Character: Mother
Mrs. Kennedy tries to convince Edgar that he would make a good father.
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Wrong Direction (1934)
Character: Edgar's Mother-in-Law
Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) gets a call from the studio to come in and direct the last scene of a film in production. But, before he can leave the house, his wife Florence (Florence Lake) and her Mother (Dot Farley) make him dress the part with riding breeches, a beret, an ascot, a crop and riding boots, and this rig is met with much derision by both cast and crew when he arrives at the studio. Carol (Jean Fontaine), the star of the movie doesn't want Edgar as the director and makes things difficult for him, especially after she hears the producer (Nat Carr) tell him he is limited to making no more than two shots on any scene. Meanwhile, Florence, Mother and Brother (Billy Eugene)decide to drop in on the set and watch Edgar at work. Because of his relatives or Carol, Edgar is forced to shoot the same scene over and over.
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Poisoned Ivory (1934)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she accidentally poisoned Edgar instead of giving him his real medicine.
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Edgar Hamlet (1935)
Character: Florence's Mother
A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.
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An Elephant on His Hands (1920)
Character: N/A
In this two-reel silent short, Mack gets a letter telling him about a gift/inheritance from India, and it turns out to be two elephants.
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Love and Pain (1913)
Character: Ethel
Jones is engaged to a jealous girl, Ethel. His stenographer has a fainting spell in his office and Jones attempts to revive her. Ethel walks into the office and sees the girl in Jones' arms and bounces out. She sends Jones a note breaking her engagement, and in despair he attempts to commit suicide.
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Sammy's Scandalous Scheme (1915)
Character: Dottie
Sammy can't get any attention from his girlfriend Dot because all she can think of is Charlie Chaplin. She sends Chaplin an enticing letter and Sammy a rejection, but the two get mixed up, so Sammy dresses up like Chaplin.
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The Paperhangers' Revenge (1918)
Character: The Cook
Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
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Big Money (1930)
Character: N/A
In the fifth of WB's Potter Family series, based on the characters created by J.P.McAvoy, Pa Potter (Lucien Littlefield) gets a job as a professional divorce-case correspondent. He is hired by a lawyer to make love to the wife of a man seeking a divorce. The problem is that Pa forgets to tell Ma (Lucille Ward) it is all make-believe.
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Getting a Raise (1930)
Character: N/A
First in a series of shorts based on J. P. McEvoy's Tuttle Family characters. Pa Tuttle (Lucien Littlefield), with three kids to feed, strives to talk his skin-flint boss, (Dell Henderson), of a raise. Boss has an attitude that faithful employees should be happy just to be working for him.
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Radio Kisses (1930)
Character: N/A
Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.
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Swell People (1930)
Character: N/A
A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.
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Even Unto Death (1914)
Character: Dorothea Gordon
Dorthea Gordon comes to a fishing village with her ill-tempered brother, Walter. She rows out to a rock to sketch the seals, but her boat drifts away and the rising tide sweeps her into the water. Her predicament is seen by Jack Livingston, the fisherman son of the village minister, and he rescues her. The pair begin seeing one another, but Walter thoroughly disapproves. When a gossip implies that Livingston's attentions are less than honorable, Walter confronts him and is killed in the ensuing struggle.
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Nobody's Widow (1927)
Character: Roxanna's Maid
Roxanna is married to British official John Clayton, but when she catches John in the apparent embrace of another woman, Roxanna leaves England and goes to visit her friend Betty in America. There she tells people that her 'beloved' husband is dead. Betty's friends take to Roxanna, especially Ned, for whom Betty has strong feelings. Further complications arrive in the presence of John Clayton, who has followed Roxanna and now pretends to be the Duke of Morebay and another potential suitor for 'widowed' Roxanna.
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Vanity's Price (1924)
Character: Katherine
Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater. She is introduced to Henri De Greve, a millionaire who might help her, but she recognizes him to be her former husband, the father of her son, Teddy, and therefore refuses to have anything to do with him. The shock of seeing him is hard on Vanna, and fearing the loss of her youthful beauty, she visits a physician in Vienna to be rejuvenated. Vanna returns thoroughly changed and even invites the attentions of De Greve when she realizes his interest in Sylvia Grayson, Teddy's sweetheart. Teddy turns against his mother, Sylvia attempts to drown herself, and Vanna lures De Greve to her boudoir, where she discloses his past and gives him a beating with a riding crop. Sylvia and Teddy are reunited and forgive Vanna, who now recognizes the folly of vanity and accepts the proposal of long-time admirer Richard Dowling. This film is lost.
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A Life in the Balance (1913)
Character: The Landlord's Wife
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
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Fatty Joins the Force (1913)
Character: Fatty's Sweetheart
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
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Astray from the Steerage (1921)
Character: Mrs. Gabble - the Rich Husband's Mother-in-Law
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
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The Gusher (1913)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
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A Strong Revenge (1913)
Character: Party Guest
Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.
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Will Power (1936)
Character: Mother
Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a fake heart attack. Then, while he is supposed to be recovering, he taps into a source of mystical will power to do the rest.
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Dummy Ache (1936)
Character: Florence's Mother
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
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Wine (1913)
Character: The Woman
Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.
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Some Nerve (1913)
Character: The Wife
Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
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Quiet Please! (1933)
Character: Florence's Mother
In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot find peace on the Pullman train he is traveling on.
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Gasoloons (1936)
Character: Florence's Mother
While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it themselves - but they aren't very good at it.
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It's Your Move (1945)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.
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Golf Widows (1926)
Character: N/A
Women won't let potential son-in-law marry her daughter unless he can get her husband to quit golfing.
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In Love at 40 (1935)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar thinks he is in love with another woman while his wife (Florence) and her family are out of town, leading to jealousy when Florence returns and pretends she is in love with another man.
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Hold Your Temper (1943)
Character: Edgar's Mother-in-Law
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
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Bridal Bail (1934)
Character: Mrs. Jones - June's Mother
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
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Love on a Ladder (1934)
Character: Florence's Mother
Florence wants to recapture the romance in her marriage and talks a reluctant Edgar into redonning his navy uniform and serenading her.
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Prunes and Politics (1944)
Character: Mrs. Eloise Farley
Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
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Cooks and Crooks (1942)
Character: Sally's Mother
A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.
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Duck Soup (1942)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.
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Fish Feathers (1932)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar's mother-in-law claims that Edgar can't fish. Edgar is determined to prove her wrong.
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Brick-a-Brac (1935)
Character: Mother
Edgar becomes increasingly frustrated by his wife's obsession with collecting cheap, useless trinkets known as "bric-a-brac". The household tension escalates as Edgar attempts to navigate a home cluttered with fragile items, leading to the physical comedy and "slow burn" frustration for which Edgar Kennedy was famous. An episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series.
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Counselitis (1935)
Character: (uncredited)
Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.
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His Unlucky Night (1928)
Character: Mrs. Trotter
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
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Hot Foot (1943)
Character: Mother-in-Law
Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his best-laid plan takes another direction. His mother-in-law gives him a foot bath in a tub with what turns out to be quick-setting cement. His pal Sam drills a hole in the cement to blow the cement off with explosives, with a typical-Kennedy result... disaster.
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Feather Your Nest (1944)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the scene, Edgar reluctantly pays for an engagement ring.
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Radio Rampage (1944)
Character: Florence's Mother
When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house doing this simple project is a foregone conclusion.
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What, No Cigarettes (1945)
Character: Florence's Mother
There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and reluctantly with Florence's mother and brother. Without Edgar's consent, Florence, mother and brother have decided that Edgar will temporarily move in with brother, while mother will temporarily move in with Florence, giving mother's room to her visiting brother, Wilbur. Uncle Wilbur, an entrepreneur, promises to set brother up in one of his companies, making Edgar's dream come true of getting brother out of his house. But chain smoking Uncle Wilbur vows to renege on his promise unless Edgar can get him some cigarettes after he himself runs out. Edgar may have some problems as there is a cigarette shortage, every smoker clamoring for what few supplies there are. If Edgar can't get cigarettes, he may have to resort to Plan B, which may not be as easy as he imagines. Regardless, lazy brother may do whatever he can to thwart Edgar's plans if only to remain unemployed and in Edgar's house.
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The Big Beef (1945)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems and several slow-burns. The double-take slow-burn comes when the meat arrives in the form of a live, 1000-pound steer.
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Weak But Willing (1929)
Character: Claire Finkel
Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal, including a seductive Jean Harlow who tries to pick him up.
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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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Motor Maniacs (1946)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is coming to claim his bride. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law (Jack Rice) has bought an interest in an outboard motor that is supposed to run all day on a cupful of gas. The suitor says he will finance it if the test is a success. Edgar is accidently pulled into the lake with the motor and it works well, but the "rich" beau says he will finance it as soon as he can find somebody to finance the drilling of his first oil well.
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Do or Diet (1947)
Character: Florence's Mother
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections, put him on a strenuous reducing program that nearly kills him.
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Hubby’s Job (1913)
Character: N/A
Hubby is out of work, and wifey is working as a stenographer, posing as a single woman, in an employment agency. The boss is in love with the pretty typist. He tells her he wants a man right away, and she telephones her husband to come down. He gets the job, which is that of porter. While hubby sweeps the floors and cleans the cuspidors, the boss is holding wifey's hand in the private office. Another suitor, who, also, does not know the stenographer is married, tries to see her and is kicked out by the boss. He tells his troubles to the porter, and then rushes off to tell the boss's wife, for revenge. Hubby listens at the door and is caught by the boss, who tips him to stop spying. The boss's wife, a two-hundred-pounder, arrives just as hubby has gotten up his courage to heat up the boss, and a lively scrimmage ensues.
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His Chum the Baron (1913)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
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What Fur (1933)
Character: Florence's Mother
Part of the Average Man series. Edgar becomes the victim of a blackmail scheme. He receives a compromising photograph showing himself with a young lady, which threatens his domestic peace.
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Algy on the Force (1913)
Character: Algy's Sweetheart
Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a frock coat. A woman reports the theft of her watch by a thief with a soft hat and a frock coat and Algie goes out looking for the thief. He meets the chief of police and arrests him after a chase and a fight, and handcuffs his prisoner to a telegraph pole while he goes for assistance. The Captain's consternation can be imagined when he arrives with his men and finds his chief a prisoner.
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Torchy's Kitty Coup (1933)
Character: Aunt Zenobia
Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
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Disappearing Enemies (1931)
Character: Aunt Molly
A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies. Both are coming over to visit and spend the night.
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Love Your Neighbor (1930)
Character: N/A
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
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Calling Hubby's Bluff (1929)
Character: Widow Schultz
Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky
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One Cylinder Love (1923)
Character: The Society Girl's Mother
A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.
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Romeo and Juliet (1924)
Character: Rodney's Mother
Comedic spoof featuring cross-eyed comedian Ben Turpin presents a rustic, burlesque stage performance of the Shakespearean tragedy, with Alice Day starring as Juliet, highlighting slapstick humor rather than romance.
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Loops! My Dear (1933)
Character: The Colonel's Wife - Mrs. Crumpit
Harry joins the Army to meet girls, and ends up driving his drill sergeant nuts in the process. While in basic training, to flee an angry mob, he disguises himself as a Major and ace pilot.
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The Law of the Tong (1931)
Character: Madam Duval
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.
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Brooding Eyes (1926)
Character: Marie De Costa
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out about this, they conspire to cheat her out of her inheritance by passing off one of the gangster's girlfriends as the real daughter. Unbeknownst to the gang, however, their leader isn't dead and finds out what they're up to. Complications ensue.
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The Ranchman's Vengeance (1911)
Character: Marie
Lorenz Pedro, a Mexican half-breed, owns a small sheep ranch, and lives happily with his wife Marie and little daughter Lois. One exceedingly hot afternoon, Tom Flint, riding across the ranch looking for work is overcome by the heat, and Pedro, acting the part of a good Samaritan, takes him to his home, where Marie, through careful nursing, soon has him quite himself again. Pedro is out daily with his flock, leaving Marie and Flint together, offering an opportunity which Flint ungratefully takes advantage of, resulting in his completely winning Marie's love. Manuelito, Marie's father, is suspicious and comes upon them while Flint is declaring his love.
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Peril of the Plains (1912)
Character: Eliza - the Mother
The first Warner Brothers production. The production was shot in St. Louis, Missouri.
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The Mask of Lopez (1924)
Character: Townswoman
Attracted to ranch owner Doris Hampton, Jack O'Neil impersonates convict "Angel Face" Harry, who is to be released from prison (a reform measure) to work on Doris' ranch. Jack discovers that Doris' cattle are being stolen by her foreman, Steve Gore, finds Gore's hiding place, and keeps him at bay until Doris rides up at the critical moment with help.
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The Climbers (1927)
Character: Juana
The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
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Listen Lester (1924)
Character: Miss Pink
Widower Colonel Dodge enjoys being single, but when Arbutus Quilty, his former sweetheart, threatens to sue him for breach of promise, he decides its time for him and his daughter Mary to take themselves a little vacation trip to Florida.
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Bangville Police (1913)
Character: Della's Mother
A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
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Variety Time (1948)
Character: Edgar's Mother-in-Law (from "I'll Build It Myself") (archive footage)
Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.
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All Aboard (1927)
Character: Aunt Patsy
Finding himself discharged from a shoe store job and the girl of his affections, May, Johnny gets away from it all by becoming a tour guide for a group of travelers visiting Eygpt. Once there, he is conned into changing places with an itinerant sheik.
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Trapped in Tia Juana (1932)
Character: Aunt Emma
An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
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The Little Irish Girl (1926)
Character: Gertie
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.
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Lady Be Good (1928)
Character: Texas West
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
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The Third Alarm (1930)
Character: Woman Barber
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
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Love Past Thirty (1934)
Character: Dressmaker
When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.
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Young April (1926)
Character: Maggie
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
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The Still Alarm (1926)
Character: Mrs. Maloney
Lucy Fay leaves her husband, Richard, a fireman, for a suave politician, Perry Dunn. Richard compensates for the loss by adopting Drina, a baby girl whose mother perished in a fire. Drina develops into a beautiful young lady and becomes a model at a modiste shop owned by Dunn and managed by Lucy. Dunn is attracted to Drina and plots to get her alone by giving her a drugged drink. An untimely fire interferes with his plans, leaving Drina drugged and trapped by flames in Dunn's room, where she is sleeping.
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The Fatal Mistake (1924)
Character: N/A
After being fired from his job on the Evening Star newspaper, cub reporter Jack Darwin (William Fairbanks) , with the help of an undercover police woman, Ethel Bennett (Eva Novak), prevents the theft of the valuable Riko jewels. Jack gets his job back...and marries Ethel.
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Slander House (1938)
Character: Mrs. Willis
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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Fixing a Stew (1934)
Character: Leon's mother-in-law
Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until he decides to sober up permanently.
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Rugged Water (1925)
Character: Mrs. Fuller
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
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Little Accident (1930)
Character: Mrs.Van Dine
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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$1,000 a Touchdown (1939)
Character: Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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A Fishy Affair (1913)
Character: Neighbor
A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
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While Paris Sleeps (1932)
Character: Concierge
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
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The Head Man (1928)
Character: Mrs. Denny
Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
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They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Character: N/A
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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His First Flame (1927)
Character: Mrs. Benedict
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.
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Curtain at Eight (1933)
Character: Ella, hefty actress
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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Road to Paradise (1930)
Character: Lola
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
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A Rented Riot (1937)
Character: Errol's Mother-in-Law
While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.
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Look Who's Laughing (1941)
Character: Mary Blaize (uncredited)
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
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Harmony at Home (1930)
Character: The Modiste
This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.
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When Knights Were Cold (1923)
Character: (uncredited)
Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by an army of knights, but both he and his pursuers ride music-hall half-horse costumes in lieu of real steads. He proceeds to fight, Fairbanks-like, dozens of swordsmen at once, and defeats his rival one-on-one, leaving him to marry the princess in a state ceremony.
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Marquis Preferred (1929)
Character: Mrs. Gruger
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
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The Garden of Eden (1928)
Character: Monte Carlo Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
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The Road to Reno (1938)
Character: Mrs. Brumleigh (as Dorothy Farley)
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
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I Stole a Million (1939)
Character: (uncredited)
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Breakfast at Sunrise (1927)
Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
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Wanted: Jane Turner (1936)
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)
Character: The Countess Prascovia Avaloff
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
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Money Talks (1926)
Character: Mrs. Chatterton
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.
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Love Is News (1937)
Character: Woman Wanting Steve's Autograph (uncredited)
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Cat People (1942)
Character: Mrs. Agnew (uncredited)
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
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The Crossroads of New York (1922)
Character: Landlady
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
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My Son (1925)
Character: Hattie Smith
A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New England fishing village.
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Down to Their Last Yacht (1934)
Character: Passenger with Diamond Bracelets (uncredited)
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
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On His Wedding Day (1913)
Character: The Bride
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
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Diamond Jim (1935)
Character: N/A
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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San Fernando Valley (1944)
Character: Hattie O'Toole
A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
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Why Leave Home? (1929)
Character: Susan
Why Leave Home? is said to be a lost film according to the Fox section at Lost Film Files.
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False Pretenses (1935)
Character: Mrs. Smythe
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
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The Code of the Scarlet (1928)
Character: Widow Malone
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang. Through a ruse, Kenton manages to infiltrate the gang, which is holed up in the lawless community of Caribou Flats. While in the employ of villainous trading post operator Jack Blake, Kenton discovers that Blake is not only the leader of the gang but also the man who murdered Helen's brother.
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Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925)
Character: Townswoman
Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.
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Memory Lane (1926)
Character: Maid
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
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The King of Kings (1927)
Character: Maidservant of Caiaphas
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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Boy of Mine (1923)
Character: Mrs. Pettis
A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and heavy-handed treatment; she leaves and takes Bill with her. The father must decide what's more important--maintaining his iron discipline over his family, or his family itself.
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The Enemy Sex (1924)
Character: Ida Summers
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
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A Woman of the World (1925)
Character: Mrs. Bierbauer
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
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Too Many Wives (1937)
Character: Mrs. Potts
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
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The Bicycle Flirt (1928)
Character: The Wife
Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother, Henry, puts pressure on his sister to leave Billy, telling her to find a man who is more industrious.
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The Girl from Nowhere (1928)
Character: N/A
Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.
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Tea- With a Kick! (1923)
Character: Mrs. Juniper
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
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The Signal Tower (1924)
Character: Cousin Gertie
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
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The Shamrock and the Rose (1927)
Character: Mrs. Kelly
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
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The Red Kimona (1925)
Character: The Inquisitive One
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
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The Rural Third Degree (1913)
Character: Si's Bride
Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The bride samples it in Si's absence, and being unaccustomed to drink, is overcome and falls on the table in a stupor. Si discovers her just as a party of neighbors are coming to congratulate the young couple and hides her in the yard, laying her on a bench. An inquisitive visitor finds her and reports to the constables that Si has killed his wife, and he is apprehended.
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Bright Eyes (1921)
Character: The Ambitious Mother
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
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The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Character: Woman Prisoner (uncredited)
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Breaking the Ice (1925)
Character: The Maid
Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy.
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Divorce Made Easy (1929)
Character: Aunt Emma
When his aunt disapproves of his marriage to Mabel Deering and threatens to disinherit him, Percy elicits the aid of his buddy Billy Haskell, who is engaged to Eileen Stanley. It is arranged that Billy and Mabel be found together in compromising circumstances by Percy and his aunt, but matters are complicated by the arrival of Billy's uncle in the city, and Aunt Emma becomes very fond of him. All is subsequently explained and thoughts of "divorce" are smoothed away as Uncle Todd couples up with Aunt Emma, and Billy and Eileen, and Percy and Mabel, reinstitute their carefree engagements.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Large Woman (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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So Big (1924)
Character: Widow Paarlenburg
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
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So This Is Paris (1926)
Character: Madame Moreau (uncredited)
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.
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The Overland Stage (1927)
Character: Aunt Viney
At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wizard with the lariat.
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Character: Mamie's Mother (uncredited)
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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The Acquittal (1923)
Character: Maid
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
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Lawyer Man (1932)
Character: Client Paying $5,000 Fee (uncredited)
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by corrupt Dr. Gresham and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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Picking Peaches (1924)
Character: The Customer
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
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Lawless Valley (1938)
Character: Anna
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
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We Have Our Moments (1937)
Character: N/A
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Celebrity (1928)
Character: Mother
Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
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Murphy's I.O.U. (1913)
Character: Wife
Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's jewelry. She thinks she has been robbed and reports the matter to the police lieutenant. Amusing complications result in which Murphy's duplicity is exposed, and his wife administers punishment for his offense.
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Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Character: Bird Lover Who Did Paper on Shrikes (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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