Bobby Burns

Bobby Burns

Born: August 31, 1878
Died: January 16, 1966
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Bobby Burns...

The Good Bad Egg
Title: The Good Bad Egg
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Parent at Clinic (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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The Body Snatcher
Title: The Body Snatcher
Released: May 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Library Patron (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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Off Again, On Again
Title: Off Again, On Again
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
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Gents Without Cents
Title: Gents Without Cents
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1944
Type: Movie
The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast doesn't show up, the stooges and the girls must put on the whole show themselves. The show is a hit and the stooges marry the girls and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Courtroom Spectator
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Air Raid Wardens
Title: Air Raid Wardens
Character: Townsman in Gymnasium (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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Loco Boy Makes Good
Title: Loco Boy Makes Good
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1942
Type: Movie
The stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is about to lose her lease to the evil landlord. The stooges decide to help her fix up the place and start by beating up the landlord and stealing his watch. After their usual antics in renovating the place, the hotel is ready for the grand re-opening. The stooges put on a big show with a famous critic in attendance. Their corny act goes over poorly until Curly accidentally puts on a magicians coat and becomes a sensation and the place is a success.
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I'll Never Heil Again
Title: I'll Never Heil Again
Character: King's Aide (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The Stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the Stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.
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Comin' Round the Mountain
Title: Comin' Round the Mountain
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.
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Stanley and Livingstone
Title: Stanley and Livingstone
Character: Geographical Society Delegate
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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Sue My Lawyer
Title: Sue My Lawyer
Character: Asst. Prosecutor
Released: September 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Title: Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Character: Room Service Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.
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My Old Kentucky Home
Title: My Old Kentucky Home
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
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Dizzy Doctors
Title: Dizzy Doctors
Character: Man in Wheelchair (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1937
Type: Movie
The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
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Jail Bait
Title: Jail Bait
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
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Am I Having Fun!
Title: Am I Having Fun!
Character: The Hotel Manager
Released: September 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then the real Indian comes and he gets confusion about what kind of Indian he's supposed to be.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Dummy Ache
Title: Dummy Ache
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
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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A Pain in the Pullman
Title: A Pain in the Pullman
Character: Man in Berth (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.
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Disorder in the Court
Title: Disorder in the Court
Character: Gallery Spectator (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.
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Ants in the Pantry
Title: Ants in the Pantry
Character: Party Guest With Mouse Down Back (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.
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Top Flat
Title: Top Flat
Character: Water Bomb Victim (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1935
Type: Movie
When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
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His Marriage Mix-up
Title: His Marriage Mix-up
Released: October 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess.
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Honeymoon Bridge
Title: Honeymoon Bridge
Released: October 2, 1935
Type: Movie
His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
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Slightly Static
Title: Slightly Static
Character: Member of Stock Company (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Waiter
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Pop Goes the Easel
Title: Pop Goes the Easel
Character: Prof. Fuller (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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Restless Knights
Title: Restless Knights
Character: Queen's Ally (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
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Speed Limited
Title: Speed Limited
Character: Farmer
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.
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The Dancing Millionaire
Title: The Dancing Millionaire
Character: Squared Circle Maitre D'
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
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Babes in Toyland
Title: Babes in Toyland
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
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Three Little Pigskins
Title: Three Little Pigskins
Character: Third Pedestrian (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
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Counsel on De Fence
Title: Counsel on De Fence
Released: October 24, 1934
Type: Movie
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: Seven Eleven Club Maitre d'
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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Them Thar Hills
Title: Them Thar Hills
Character: Officer
Released: July 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
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Hold Your Temper
Title: Hold Your Temper
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.
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Cheating Blondes
Title: Cheating Blondes
Character: Tenement Neighbor
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
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Mr. Bride
Title: Mr. Bride
Character: Bass Fiddler
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
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Sneak Easily
Title: Sneak Easily
Character: Professor Austin
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Senate Clerk
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Slightly Married
Title: Slightly Married
Character: Minister
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
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Alum and Eve
Title: Alum and Eve
Character: Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1932
Type: Movie
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.
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Show Business
Title: Show Business
Character: Train Passenger in Lower Berth (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
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The Thirteenth Guest
Title: The Thirteenth Guest
Character: Photographer (Uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
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The Old Bull
Title: The Old Bull
Character: Farm Hand (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn. The barn's owner won't let them leave without paying damages. The gals hoof it, walking in a large circle to arrive back at the farmer's house after dark. While outside his door, they hear a radio broadcast to beware a lion escaped from a wintering circus. Can Thelma and Zasu reclaim the car while avoiding the angry farmer, his prize bull, and the renegade lion?
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Red Noses
Title: Red Noses
Character: Lucas' Secretary (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
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Any Old Port!
Title: Any Old Port!
Character: Justice of the Peace
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
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Helpmates
Title: Helpmates
Character: Neighbor
Released: January 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Title: The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Character: Nervous Relative at Window (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1930
Type: Movie
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
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Below Zero
Title: Below Zero
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
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Giftgas
Title: Giftgas
Character: Pieters Sohn
Released: November 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.
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Lazy Days
Title: Lazy Days
Character: Baby
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.
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Three Tough Onions
Title: Three Tough Onions
Character: The Minister
Released: May 20, 1928
Type: Movie
In-laws make life unbearable for Monty (Review from Selectd Motion Pictures journal)
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Scared Silly
Title: Scared Silly
Released: November 13, 1927
Type: Movie
The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.
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Grandpa's Boy
Title: Grandpa's Boy
Character: The Butler
Released: March 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Big Boy's grandfather is ordered by the authorities to provide a home for Big Boy, so he sends his butler to get him.
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Ball Bearing, But Hard Running
Title: Ball Bearing, But Hard Running
Released: February 29, 1920
Type: Movie
A previously lost short also known as His Nimble Twist.
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Deviled Crabs
Title: Deviled Crabs
Character: Pokes
Released: November 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Hallucinations abound after eating Deviled Crabs with Pokes & Jabs.
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Before the Show
Title: Before the Show
Character: Pokes
Released: December 29, 1916
Type: Movie
The small town vaudeville manager, before the afternoon performance, discovers his property man has quit without notice, so is compelled to hire one of the hangers-on, Slippery Pokes
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Behind the Footlights
Title: Behind the Footlights
Character: Pokes
Released: March 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Pokes, the property man at the Vim theater, incurs the hostility of Prof. Jabbs the wonderful Escape King on the opening day of the performance.
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A Pair of Skins
Title: A Pair of Skins
Character: Pokes
Released: March 17, 1916
Type: Movie
A comedy involving tiger skins.
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The Wrong Hand Bag
Title: The Wrong Hand Bag
Released: July 4, 1913
Type: Movie
Mrs. Hanson reminds hubby that it is her birthday as he is about to leave for his office. On the way he stops in a jewelry store, and purchases for her a silver mesh bag, which he sends home by a messenger. When Mrs. Hanson receives the bag she cannot resist the temptation to show it to her next-door neighbor, Mrs. Jones, who at once becomes jealous.
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Fixing a Flirt
Title: Fixing a Flirt
Character: Cashier
Released: November 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Instead of paying his landlady, a man invites a seamstress out for dinner. To tease him her colleagues appear uninvited at the restaurant. When the bill comes it is huge and costs the man all of his money, his watch and other belongings, while the seamstress doesn't even want him to walk her home. He goes home penniless and his landlady does not let him in: he has to sleep outside.
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A Visit to Lively Town
Title: A Visit to Lively Town
Released: July 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Two hicks take a trip to Atlantic City.
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Willie, the Hunter
Title: Willie, the Hunter
Character: In bear costume
Released: February 24, 1912
Type: Movie
A comedy about Willem, who goes out hunting; his friends decide to scare a him with a bear suit.