Daphne Pollard

Daphne Pollard

Born: October 19, 1891
Died: February 22, 1978
in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Movies for Daphne Pollard...

The Golden Age of Comedy
Title: The Golden Age of Comedy
Character: archive footage
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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Kid Dynamite
Title: Kid Dynamite
Character: Mrs. McGinnis
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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Tillie the Toiler
Title: Tillie the Toiler
Character: Mumsy
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend, she continually throws him over for handsomer men.
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Our Relations
Title: Our Relations
Character: Mrs. Daphne Hardy
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
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Bonnie Scotland
Title: Bonnie Scotland
Character: Millie the Maid
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
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Thicker Than Water
Title: Thicker Than Water
Character: Mrs. Daphne Hardy
Released: March 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money to Stanley, who used it instead to pay Mrs. Hardy for his room and board. At Stan's suggestion Ollie then withdraws the couple's savings from the bank to pay for the furniture and inadvertently pays virtually the whole amount at an auction for a grandfather clock which is soon crushed under a passing truck. Mrs Hardy then unintentionally causes serious injuries to Ollie requiring him to be rushed to hospital for a blood transfusion. The doctor conscripts Stan to be the unwilling blood donor. Problems occur with the transfusion and when Stan and Ollie leave the hospital they appear to have morphed into each other.
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His First Flame
Title: His First Flame
Character: Emmy
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him.
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A Peach of a Pair
Title: A Peach of a Pair
Character: Cook
Released: December 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
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Smoked Hams
Title: Smoked Hams
Character: Emma Pollard
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
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She Whoops To Conquer
Title: She Whoops To Conquer
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.
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Hawkins & Watkins Inc.
Title: Hawkins & Watkins Inc.
Released: July 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Beatrice De Vere (Daphne Pollard), a wealthy eccentric, owns a fabulous diamond that is coveted by others. Thusly begins a slapstick farce that involves two dumb New York cops, with cockney accents, a menacing butler who also tells fortunes, and a gorilla who drives a motorcycle and pilots an airplane.
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The Lady Refuses
Title: The Lady Refuses
Character: Millie
Released: March 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
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Help Wanted, Female
Title: Help Wanted, Female
Released: January 11, 1931
Type: Movie
A new housekeeper, her son, and two not-too-bright burglars wreak havoc at a doctor's office.
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Racket Cheers
Title: Racket Cheers
Character: Mrs. Ed Martin
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Andy Clyde and Daphne Pollard are nouveaux riches moving into a posh neighbourhood and trying to impress though their behaviour is gross and gauche.
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Breakfast in Bed
Title: Breakfast in Bed
Character: Hilda
Released: November 16, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the same time, romantic complications ensue.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Mame Avery
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
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What a Widow!
Title: What a Widow!
Character: Masseuse
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
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Swing High
Title: Swing High
Character: Mrs. May
Released: May 18, 1930
Type: Movie
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
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Bulls and Bears
Title: Bulls and Bears
Character: Gertrude Martin
Released: March 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
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Sugar Plum Papa
Title: Sugar Plum Papa
Character: The New Mrs. Martin
Released: February 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
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Loose Ankles
Title: Loose Ankles
Character: Agnes
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
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Big Time
Title: Big Time
Character: Sybil
Released: September 7, 1929
Type: Movie
The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.
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Matchmaking Mamma
Title: Matchmaking Mamma
Character: Mrs. Cornelius McNitt
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
This marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. He is panty-whipped by his social climbing second wife. She has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, and to nab Larry Lodge, the pageant's leading man, as a husband for her flighty daughter Phyllis, the pageant's leading lady. Larry ends up only having eyes for Sally McNitt, Mr. McNitt's visiting daughter, and she, in turn has eyes for him.
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The Old Barn
Title: The Old Barn
Character: The School Teacher
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.
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The Sky Hawk
Title: The Sky Hawk
Character: Minnie
Released: January 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.
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The Campus Vamp
Title: The Campus Vamp
Character: Dora
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?
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The Campus Carmen
Title: The Campus Carmen
Character: Tillie Toober
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
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Smith's Restaurant
Title: Smith's Restaurant
Character: The Waitress
Released: August 19, 1928
Type: Movie
The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.
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The Girl from Nowhere
Title: The Girl from Nowhere
Character: Tillie Tucker - Wardrobe Mistress
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
The Girl from Nowhere is a comedy short
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The Swim Princess
Title: The Swim Princess
Character: Sally Forthe
Released: February 26, 1928
Type: Movie
The Swim Princess is a silent comedy short.
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Love at First Flight
Title: Love at First Flight
Character: Polly Polka - Dance Instructor
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.
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Run, Girl, Run
Title: Run, Girl, Run
Character: Coach Minnie Marmon
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
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The Girl from Everywhere
Title: The Girl from Everywhere
Character: Minnie Stitch
Released: December 11, 1927
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.