Babe London

Babe London

Born: August 28, 1901
Died: November 29, 1980
in Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Babe London (born Jean Glover, August 28, 1901 – November 29, 1980) was an American actress and comedian, most remembered for her onetime-only partnership with Oliver Hardy, in the 1931 Laurel and Hardy two-reeler Our Wife.

London began her screen career as a teenager, making her film debut in The Expert Eloper in 1919. She then appeared in A Day's Pleasure, performing opposite Charlie Chaplin. London appeared in more than 50 silent films, including The Perfect Flapper, The Boob, and the 1928 version of Tillie's Punctured Romance starring W. C. Fields. She worked with many of the funny men of the day, including Harry Langdon and Chester Conklin.

At the height of her career London weighed 255 pounds. Later, a heart condition necessitated a loss of 100 pounds, and her movie offers declined along with her weight. She never regained her earlier success.

In the late 1950s London began a second career as a painter and devoted the last 20 years of her life to depicting on canvas the early years of Hollywood. She titled the series The Vanishing Era. London willed 75 of her paintings to the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, along with her personal belongings.

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Sex Kittens Go to College
Title: Sex Kittens Go to College
Character: Miss Amanda Cadwallader
Released: August 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.
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Title: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: TV
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
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Scrambled Brains
Title: Scrambled Brains
Character: Nora
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.
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The Good Humor Man
Title: The Good Humor Man
Character: Inmate (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
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Dancing in the Dark
Title: Dancing in the Dark
Character: Hula Girl
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Character: Fat Woman (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
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Hollow Triumph
Title: Hollow Triumph
Character: Hotel Lady with Orchid (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Mother at Party (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Dancehall Girl
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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This Time for Keeps
Title: This Time for Keeps
Character: Fat Lady in Theater Balcony
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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Mr. Dynamite
Title: Mr. Dynamite
Character: Heavyset Ball-throw Target
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
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Our Wife
Title: Our Wife
Character: Dulcy, the bride
Released: May 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Buxom Peasant Girl on Ship
Released: December 23, 1930
Type: Movie
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Strong Woman
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
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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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The Princess from Hoboken
Title: The Princess from Hoboken
Character: Princess Sonia Alexandernova Karpoff
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
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The Boob
Title: The Boob
Character: Fat Girl (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1926
Type: Movie
To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
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Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Woman in Department Store (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
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Scrambled Eggs
Title: Scrambled Eggs
Character: Babe
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Two "correspondence romance" suitors prepare to meet their respective partners for the first time; mixups ensue.
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Red Pepper
Title: Red Pepper
Character: Girl on Tom's Bike
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
An ordinary day - so an eventful one - of Tom Katt, a young man who works as a drugstore owner's assistant: his - very acrobatic - bike ride to his place of work; the - fanciful - way he performs his job; the - ingenious - subterfuge he finds to help his employer, who has money problems; the - swift - way he escapes the cops chasing him...
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Jonah Jones
Title: Jonah Jones
Character: The Hired Man's Sweetheart
Released: September 20, 1924
Type: Movie
This two-reel Lloyd Hamilton comedy. Set in the bucolic countryside, the opening sequence introduces Ham and his girlfriend Babe London as "the hired man and his three acres of love.". Ham encounters an attractive, prosperous-looking young lady who is having car trouble. After gallantly fixing her flat tire and when he realizes that the young lady has left her purse behind with her address inside he sets out to return it, no doubt hoping for a reward, either monetary or romantic.
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Grandpa's Girl
Title: Grandpa's Girl
Released: June 15, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 Jack Duffy comedy. Jean manages to be expelled from college to be able to go to Europe with her grandfather. When he learns about that, grandpa disinherits Jean and starts looking for a grandson to replace her. Jean dresses as a boy, Oswald. Grandpa then tries to marry Oswald and test his new grandson’s strength.
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Getting Gertie's Goat
Title: Getting Gertie's Goat
Character: Mrs Smith
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
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Stay Single
Title: Stay Single
Released: January 28, 1924
Type: Movie
After Felix Valle helps rescue next door neighbor Dorothy Devore's dog from the over-zealous dog catcher, she agrees to help him get a raise in salary by pretending to be his wife. Meanwhile, her jealous husband is bringing home Felix' boss for a deal...
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Call the Wagon
Title: Call the Wagon
Character: The Maid
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.
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Kidding Katie
Title: Kidding Katie
Character: Queenie
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
A 1923 Christie comedy starring Babe London and Dorothy Devore. Queenie (London) has sent a picture of her sister Katie (Devore) to her pen pal as if it was her. Now that the pen pal is in love and coming to meet Queenie in person, Katie has to pretend she is a child.
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Done in Oil
Title: Done in Oil
Released: October 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Jimmie, an oil stock salesman, is roughly handled by a couple of shrewd promoters who have stolen a well from a poor girl. The latter saves our hero, who in turn gets the well back for her.
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Winter Has Came
Title: Winter Has Came
Character: The Hired Girl
Released: April 6, 1923
Type: Movie
A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the aged folks from being driven out into the blinding snowstorm.
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The Handy Man
Title: The Handy Man
Character: A house guest
Released: March 12, 1923
Type: Movie
A 1923 silent comedy.
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A Hula Honeymoon
Title: A Hula Honeymoon
Character: Mrs. Smudge
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
Henry Murdock & Babe London go on Honeymoon to Hawaii.
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The Balloonatic
Title: The Balloonatic
Character: Fat Girl at The House of Trouble
Released: January 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.
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The Weak-End Party
Title: The Weak-End Party
Character: Party Guest
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.
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Golden Dreams
Title: Golden Dreams
Character: Strong Woman
Released: June 11, 1922
Type: Movie
Oil is discovered on the Countess de Elberca's estate in a mythical Spanish American country. Mercedes McDonald, her niece, falls in love with Sandy Buchanan, a young Scotch engineer hired by the countess. Don Felipe, a neighbor in need of money to avoid arrest for embezzlement, conspires with his nephew, the Duke of Othomo, for the latter to wed Mercedes. The aunt approves the suit. Felipe and Othomo attempt to kill Mercedes' sweetheart, but Buchanan, with the aid of her brother and a traveling American circus, foils their plans. Felipe and Othomo are killed by the circus animals, and the aunt consents to Mercedes' marriage to Buchanan.
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When Romance Rides
Title: When Romance Rides
Character: Sally Brackton
Released: March 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Lucy Bostil, daughter of a Colorado ranch owner, is led by a dog to his master, Lin Slone, who is exhausted from a struggle to capture a wild horse; she revives Lin and they christen the horse "Wildfire." The Bostils have entered Sage King in a race, but Lucy agrees to tame and train the wild horse, since Buckles, her favorite colt, has been stolen. When Joel Creech, a half-witted stable hand, is discharged, he becomes a tool of the Cordtses--who also have entered a horse (Buckles) in the race--in drugging Sage King. Lin and Lucy enter Wildfire under the Bostil colors, and she rides him to victory, When Cordts is disgraced and discovered to be a horse thief, he persuades Joel to abduct Lucy. Joel does so, but first he kills Cordts. Warned by his dog of Lucy's danger, Lin pursues and rescues the girl.
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Why Worry
Title: Why Worry
Released: June 11, 1921
Type: Movie
George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a young man -- he is supposed to have been in his mid-fifties when this movie was made, but if so, he could have passed for 30 -- who heads over to a sanitarium filled with the usual crazy types, falls in love and runs off with the leading lady, all without doing anything that might be called in the least funny.
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Nearly Married
Title: Nearly Married
Character: John D. Gotalot's Niece
Released: December 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Monty Banks comedy produced by Warners.
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When the Clouds Roll By
Title: When the Clouds Roll By
Character: Switchboard Operator
Released: December 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist. Through various means of control, the mad scientist drives Daniel to think he's losing his mind, but ultimately introduces him to the lovely Lucette.
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A Day's Pleasure
Title: A Day's Pleasure
Character: Large Husband's Seasick Wife (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1919
Type: Movie
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.