Ford Sterling

Ford Sterling

Born: November 2, 1883
Died: October 13, 1939
in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA

Movies for Ford Sterling...

Days of Thrills and Laughter
Title: Days of Thrills and Laughter
Character: archive footage
Released: March 21, 1961
Type: Movie
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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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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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Title: Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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Many Unhappy Returns
Title: Many Unhappy Returns
Character: C.C. aka Henry Morgan
Released: October 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.
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All Business
Title: All Business
Character: King
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on her husband, Ford King (Ford Sterling),who is trying to sell his jewelry line to a lady buyer, Frances Brown (Kitty McHugh). The house detective (Edgar Dearing) gets involved and the room-service waiter, (Billy Dooley), constantly gets himself and his tray knocked over.
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Keystone Hotel
Title: Keystone Hotel
Character: Sterling, Chief of Police
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
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A Quiet Fourth
Title: A Quiet Fourth
Released: August 8, 1935
Type: Movie
An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
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Black Sheep
Title: Black Sheep
Character: Mather
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
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The Headline Woman
Title: The Headline Woman
Character: Hugo Meyer
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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Behind the Green Lights
Title: Behind the Green Lights
Character: Max Schultz, German Janitor
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: White King
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Her Majesty, Love
Title: Her Majesty, Love
Character: Otmar von Wellingen
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. Lia goes to Berlin to marry a Baron von Schwarzdorf, and Fred arrives too late to stop the marriage.
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Title: Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Released: June 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Amru
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
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Bride of the Regiment
Title: Bride of the Regiment
Character: Tangy
Released: May 21, 1930
Type: Movie
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Title: Show Girl in Hollywood
Character: Sam Otis
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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Spring Is Here
Title: Spring Is Here
Character: Peter Braley
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.
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Sally
Title: Sally
Character: 'Pops' Shendorff
Released: January 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.
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The Girl in the Show
Title: The Girl in the Show
Character: Ed Bondell
Released: August 30, 1929
Type: Movie
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
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The Fall of Eve
Title: The Fall of Eve
Character: Mr. Mack
Released: June 17, 1929
Type: Movie
The Fall of Eve
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Oh Kay!
Title: Oh Kay!
Character: Shorty McGee
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
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Sporting Goods
Title: Sporting Goods
Character: Mr. Jordan
Released: February 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets Alice Elliott, who mistakes Shelby for millionaire sportsman Timothy Stanfield (Claude King). Forced to go through with the masquerade, Shelby ends up spending what little money he has, and then some.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Character: Gus Eisman
Released: January 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
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Wife Savers
Title: Wife Savers
Character: Tavern Keeper
Released: January 7, 1928
Type: Movie
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed boyfriend General Lavoris.
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Figures Don't Lie
Title: Figures Don't Lie
Character: 'Howdy' Jones
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetching one-piece bathing suit. The main story concerns wise-guy insurance salesman Richard Arlen, who through a combination of hard work and sheer gall lands a job as sales manager. But he can't land heroine Ralston, who has remained cool to his charms ever since he tried to make a play for her on the street.
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For the Love of Mike
Title: For the Love of Mike
Character: Herman Schultz
Released: July 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Three men join forces to raise an adopted son.
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Drums of the Desert
Title: Drums of the Desert
Character: Perkins
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
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Casey at the Bat
Title: Casey at the Bat
Character: O'Dowd
Released: March 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
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Stranded in Paris
Title: Stranded in Paris
Character: Count Pasada
Released: December 13, 1926
Type: Movie
American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who has to kiss her when she loses a sack race. In Paris, Julie finds her proposed residence destroyed, and while waiting for Bob her purse is snatched; in the ensuing chase she gets lost and enters a dressmaker shop, where the two owners are in dire need of an English-speaking girl to deliver some gowns. Accidentally she is given free entry to the apartment of Countess Pasada and is shown to her rooms; the count is in his pajamas when she emerges from her bath, and she locks him in the bathroom.
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Everybody's Acting
Title: Everybody's Acting
Character: Michael Poole
Released: October 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.
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The Show Off
Title: The Show Off
Character: Aubrey Piper
Released: August 16, 1926
Type: Movie
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
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Good and Naughty
Title: Good and Naughty
Character: Bunny West
Released: June 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.
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Mike
Title: Mike
Character: Tad
Released: May 10, 1926
Type: Movie
A Modest Comedy Drama
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Miss Brewster's Millions
Title: Miss Brewster's Millions
Character: Ned Brewster
Released: March 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Polly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie extra inherits one million dollars. But her new lawyer, Tom Hancock, informs her that she has to spend it all within 30 days to inherit $5 million more from her spiteful Uncle Ned Brewster who tries to prevent it from happening.
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The Road to Glory
Title: The Road to Glory
Character: James Allen
Released: February 7, 1926
Type: Movie
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
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The American Venus
Title: The American Venus
Character: Hugo Niles
Released: January 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Buck
Released: November 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one day own their own diner. Although Orme loves Jennie, he also has a weakness for stage stars -- so when a riverboat theatrical crew comes to their town, he is smitten by lead actress Lillian Lyons. Desperate to keep Orme, Jennie insists on going onstage to best Lillian, but is soon out of her depth.
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The Trouble With Wives
Title: The Trouble With Wives
Character: Al Hennessey
Released: September 28, 1925
Type: Movie
William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but hopelessly gauche pal, Al Hennessy (Sterling). Dagmar, a Parisian shoe designer (Esther Ralston) has come to town to meet with Hyatt and Hennessy, and Hennessy describes the situation to Grace in the worst possible manner, convincing her that her husband is having an affair.
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My Lady's Lips
Title: My Lady's Lips
Character: Smike
Released: July 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Title: Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Released: March 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws for magazines. Reaching his limits, Julian convinces his wife he could reach higher grounds if he were to go to Paris. He moves to Paris while his Edith works at a shop on Fifth Avenue. Each of their lives evolves differently—Edith is courted by a wealthy suitor whom she ignores while pining for her husband, while Julian fails to meet his goals in Paris, returning defeated three years later. The meeting highlight how different their routes have been.
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So Big
Title: So Big
Character: Jacob Hoogenduck
Released: December 28, 1924
Type: Movie
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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He Who Gets Slapped
Title: He Who Gets Slapped
Character: Tricaud
Released: December 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming scientist Paul Benedict is betrayed by his mentor, the Baron Regnard, who not only steals discoveries but also his wife Marie. Benedict, reeling from his pain, joins a circus sideshow in order to become the most famous clown in France. He becomes infatuated with Consuelo, a showgirl, who has become the recipient of affections by the Baron.
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The Woman on the Jury
Title: The Woman on the Jury
Character: Juror
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted guilty...a woman brave enough to defy public opinion, brave enough to lose the loss of the love of her husband by baring her soul to the world in order to save the girl on trial.
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Wild Oranges
Title: Wild Oranges
Character: Paul Halvard
Released: January 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie. One day widower John Woolfolk, sailing on his yacht, happens upon the island. Soon he and Millie fall in love. Will jealous Nicholas stand for this?
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The Day of Faith
Title: The Day of Faith
Character: Montreal Sammy
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: 'Slapjack' Simms
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Ford Sterling
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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The Brass Bottle
Title: The Brass Bottle
Character: Rapkin
Released: July 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.
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The Strangers' Banquet
Title: The Strangers' Banquet
Character: Al Norton
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
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Oh, Mabel Behave
Title: Oh, Mabel Behave
Character: Squire Peachem
Released: June 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has a hefty mortgage on the inn, he thinks he can use it to effect a union, but the girl is not interested in him. She already has a sweetheart, handsome Randolph Roanoke (Owen Moore). Peachem and his dumb-as-dirt assistant, Blaa Blaa (Sennett), try to keep Roanoke and Mabel apart. Their feeble attempts are in vain, and Mabel easily manages to outwit them and win the man she loves. - Janiss Garza
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Don't Weaken!
Title: Don't Weaken!
Character: Professor Yonson - the Dancing Master
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
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Hearts and Flowers
Title: Hearts and Flowers
Character: Orchestra Leader
Released: June 22, 1919
Type: Movie
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
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Why Beaches Are Popular
Title: Why Beaches Are Popular
Character: Ford Sterling
Released: May 10, 1919
Type: Movie
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Title: Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Character: Kaiser Bill
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
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Her Torpedoed Love
Title: Her Torpedoed Love
Character: Reginald Scuttle - the Conniving Butler
Released: May 13, 1917
Type: Movie
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
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His Lying Heart
Title: His Lying Heart
Character: The Merchant
Released: August 20, 1916
Type: Movie
His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.
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The Snow Cure
Title: The Snow Cure
Character: The Flirt
Released: April 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Title: Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Character: Keystone Performer
Released: December 15, 1915
Type: Movie
Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
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His Father's Footsteps
Title: His Father's Footsteps
Character: The Father
Released: November 28, 1915
Type: Movie
About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.
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Only a Messenger Boy
Title: Only a Messenger Boy
Character: The Messenger Boy
Released: August 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Keystone silent comedy.
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Dirty Work in a Laundry
Title: Dirty Work in a Laundry
Character: The Desperate Scoundrel
Released: July 19, 1915
Type: Movie
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.
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Court House Crooks
Title: Court House Crooks
Character: The District Attorney
Released: July 5, 1915
Type: Movie
A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the side; Misplaced jewelry and a message written on a mirror lead to the DA's undoing.
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Our Dare-Devil Chief
Title: Our Dare-Devil Chief
Character: The Chief of Police
Released: May 9, 1915
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves continually threaten or attempt to kill the Mayor, always setting up the bumbling Chief of Police as the culprit. The Chief's very friendly relationship with the Mayor's wife doesn't help. When the Mayor's valuables are stolen the Chief is given a chance to redeem himself.
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That Little Band Of Gold
Title: That Little Band Of Gold
Character: Gassy Gotrox - Tattletale
Released: March 14, 1915
Type: Movie
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
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Hogan's Romance Upset
Title: Hogan's Romance Upset
Character: Fight Spectator
Released: February 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Charles Murray out romancing in the park.
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He Wouldn't Stay Down
Title: He Wouldn't Stay Down
Character: Peter P. Snitz - the Husband
Released: February 2, 1915
Type: Movie
A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.
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The Knockout
Title: The Knockout
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1914
Type: Movie
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
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Sergeant Hofmeyer
Title: Sergeant Hofmeyer
Character: Sgt. Hofmeyer
Released: May 7, 1914
Type: Movie
A police officer attempts to steal a go-cart from a child.
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Love and Vengeance
Title: Love and Vengeance
Character: Schmaltz
Released: April 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Ford Sterling in the park courting.
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Across the Hall
Title: Across the Hall
Released: March 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Across the Hall
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Tango Tangle
Title: Tango Tangle
Character: Band Leader
Released: March 9, 1914
Type: Movie
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
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A Film Johnnie
Title: A Film Johnnie
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1914
Type: Movie
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
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Between Showers
Title: Between Showers
Character: Mr. Snookie, a Thief
Released: February 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.
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A Thief Catcher
Title: A Thief Catcher
Character: Suspicious John
Released: February 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
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Gentleman Burglar
Title: Gentleman Burglar
Character: Chief of Police
Released: February 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Baffles, Gentleman Burglar
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A Robust Romeo
Title: A Robust Romeo
Released: February 12, 1914
Type: Movie
A Robust Romeo is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Emma Bell Clifton.
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Double Crossed
Title: Double Crossed
Character: Schemer
Released: January 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get involved in burglary in this Keystone from 1914.
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In the Clutches of the Gang
Title: In the Clutches of the Gang
Character: Chief Tehiezel
Released: January 17, 1914
Type: Movie
In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
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Some Nerve
Title: Some Nerve
Character: The Husband
Released: December 25, 1913
Type: Movie
Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
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Zuzu, the Band Leader
Title: Zuzu, the Band Leader
Character: Zuzu
Released: December 24, 1913
Type: Movie
A comedy short with Ford Sterling impersonating a band leader and a flirtatious Mabel Normand creating trouble between her admirer, Caesar, and the leader.
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The Gusher
Title: The Gusher
Character: Oil Well Buyer
Released: December 14, 1913
Type: Movie
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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His Sister's Kids
Title: His Sister's Kids
Character: The Police Chief
Released: December 13, 1913
Type: Movie
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
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Cohen Saves the Flag
Title: Cohen Saves the Flag
Character: Sgt. Cohen
Released: November 26, 1913
Type: Movie
Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Cohen inadvertently becomes a hero when he tosses back an enemy hand grenade and raises a fallen flag in the midst of the conflict. Goldberg conspires to have Cohen shot by a firing squad, but Cohen’s girlfriend Rebecca rides to the rescue.
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A Muddy Romance
Title: A Muddy Romance
Character: The Villain
Released: November 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
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Wine
Title: Wine
Character: The Diner
Released: November 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.
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A Small Time Act
Title: A Small Time Act
Character: Rajah
Released: November 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A Small Time Act is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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Love Sickness at Sea
Title: Love Sickness at Sea
Character: Ship Captain
Released: November 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Mabel, her father and Mr. Tra La La, a suitor, much to her disgust, for her hand, take a trip on the coast steamer, "Harvard." Mr. Short, his rival, follows them. He, with the connivance of the ship's captain, gives Mr. Tra La La a most strenuous and ludicrous trip.
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The Speed Kings
Title: The Speed Kings
Character: Papa
Released: October 30, 1913
Type: Movie
Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.
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A Healthy Neighborhood
Title: A Healthy Neighborhood
Released: October 12, 1913
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous doctor tries to drum up business by having the sidewalk in front of his house covered with banana skins, inviting slip-and-fall injuries. Guess you couldn't get sued for that in 1913. Later, he mistakenly gives a patient some poison for medicine, causing her father to blackjack the quack.
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The Bowling Match
Title: The Bowling Match
Character: Kraut
Released: September 29, 1913
Type: Movie
An amusing bowling match between Messrs. Sauer and Kraut. The balls and pins are manipulated by an electric magnet and perform some queer antics. There is, of course, the usual roughhouse finish, with Ford and Mabel in the important parts. Good fun, without offense.
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When Dreams Come True
Title: When Dreams Come True
Character: The Peddler
Released: September 22, 1913
Type: Movie
A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ministers for him.
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The Fatal Taxicab
Title: The Fatal Taxicab
Character: Egbert Throckmorton
Released: September 18, 1913
Type: Movie
The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
Title: Mabel's Dramatic Career
Character: Actor / Onscreen Villain
Released: September 8, 1913
Type: Movie
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
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Baby Day
Title: Baby Day
Released: August 25, 1913
Type: Movie
A short silent comedy starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
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Professor Bean's Removal
Title: Professor Bean's Removal
Character: Professor Bean
Released: July 31, 1913
Type: Movie
Professor Bean's Removal is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand.
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Love and Courage
Title: Love and Courage
Released: July 21, 1913
Type: Movie
Love and Courage is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
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Love and Rubbish
Title: Love and Rubbish
Character: Mr. Fickle
Released: July 14, 1913
Type: Movie
Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.
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Safe in Jail
Title: Safe in Jail
Character: The Constable
Released: July 7, 1913
Type: Movie
Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
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Rastus and the Game Cock
Title: Rastus and the Game Cock
Character: Rastus
Released: July 3, 1913
Type: Movie
Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
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For the Love of Mabel
Title: For the Love of Mabel
Released: June 30, 1913
Type: Movie
A presumably lost film starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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Peeping Pete
Title: Peeping Pete
Character: Neighbor's Husband
Released: June 22, 1913
Type: Movie
This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
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A Bandit
Title: A Bandit
Character: The Bandit
Released: June 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
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The Waiters' Picnic
Title: The Waiters' Picnic
Character: Louis - the Chef
Released: June 16, 1913
Type: Movie
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.
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The Speed Queen
Title: The Speed Queen
Character: The Cop
Released: June 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Nellie's father is a judge, afflicted with a species of St. Vitus' dance. When he feels an attack coming on he takes a dose of medicine which always brings relief. One day he forgets the medicine, and feeling the attack coming on he sends Nellie home for the medicine. She jumps into her auto and drives like the wind, pursued by two bicycle cops. One of the cops is a rejected suitor, and he hopes to catch her and arrest her, for spite. The other cop is the accepted lover, and he rides to save her. Amusing situations are shown while the trio are riding at terrific speed. Nellie is arrested, but is released upon the plea of her sweetheart.
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The Hansom Driver
Title: The Hansom Driver
Character: The Driver's Rival
Released: June 9, 1913
Type: Movie
Mabel's husband is a hansom cab driver. After a quarrel Mabel imagines herself neglected, and listens to the honeyed words of a tempter, and finally agrees to elope 'with him. A boy is sent for a cab, and the innocent youth calls the husband. The vehicle drives up and the couple run into it, their identity unnoticed by the driver, and they absorbed in each other, not noting the man on the seat. Hubby glances into the mirror reflecting the interior of the cab, and the fun starts. A comical fight takes place between the two men, and the would-be home breaker is soundly thrashed, and penitent Mabel is taken back to her husband's arms.
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Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
Title: Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
Character: The Villain
Released: June 2, 1913
Type: Movie
When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney Oldfield for help.
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Toplitsky and Company
Title: Toplitsky and Company
Character: Toplitsky's Partner
Released: May 25, 1913
Type: Movie
Toplitsky runs a second-hand clothing shop, but his partner "admires" his wife. Two conniving businessmen, intent on gaining a place in the store, inform Toplitsky of an upcoming tryst. A runaway bear adds to the complications.
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The Foreman of the Jury
Title: The Foreman of the Jury
Character: Jones - Foreman of the Jury
Released: May 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Jones is broke. His girl is giving a birthday party, and her various suitors give her costly presents. Jones finds a beautiful lavaliere, which be gives to Mabel, and wins her heart. He is chosen as the foreman of a jury, and when petty offenders are brought to trial turns a deaf ear to all pleas for mercy, gaining the hatred of the other jurors. Finally a man is brought up who is to he tried for stealing the necklace Jones found. A strong case is shown, and all the other jurors want to find him guilty, but Jones holds out for an acquittal. Mabel comes into the court room and sits alongside of the complainant. The necklace is seen and an uproar takes place. Jones is accused as a thief and in a highly melodramatic manner takes a huge vial from his pocket, drinks the contents and falls back dead.
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Their First Execution
Title: Their First Execution
Released: May 14, 1913
Type: Movie
A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first execution. The victim, with careless disregard for their feelings, makes his escape from the prison. The sleuth goes in pursuit, and finding the discarded convict's garb dons it as a disguise, hoping to meet the hunted man and ingratiate himself. Prison guards capture the sleuth, and disliking to disappoint the waiting crowd, decide to execute him. He is placed in the chair and the current turned on, but he stubbornly resists death. The current is doubled and trebled, to no avail. Meanwhile the real criminal has been captured, and he is brought back in time to save the sleuth from his perilous position.
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Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Title: Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Character: Smith
Released: May 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Mabel has two suitors, Smith and Jones. Smith is an elderly man who impetuously sweeps everything before him, and his dashing ways win Mabel's heart. Poor Jones is downcast when he learns that Mabel is to marry Smith, and follows Smith home. He learns that Smith is already married and has ten little children.
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The Ragtime Band
Title: The Ragtime Band
Character: Professor Smelts
Released: May 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.
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His Chum the Baron
Title: His Chum the Baron
Character: Baron von Sneezer
Released: April 28, 1913
Type: Movie
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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A Fishy Affair
Title: A Fishy Affair
Character: Perkins
Released: April 24, 1913
Type: Movie
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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A Life in the Balance
Title: A Life in the Balance
Character: The Landlord
Released: April 14, 1913
Type: Movie
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
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Father’s Choice
Title: Father’s Choice
Released: April 10, 1913
Type: Movie
Father wants Mabel to marry a little, wealthy shrimp. She is in love with Charlie, a big, strapping fellow. Mabel is locked up in the house, but her lover sets the house on fire, and In the confusion runs to the minister's house with her. Father and his choice pursue, but Mabel and her lover hide in the chimney. Father sticks around with a big gun, and Mabel and her lover make up as negroes and are married, father being persuaded to act as best man.
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Those Good Old Days
Title: Those Good Old Days
Character: The Jester
Released: April 7, 1913
Type: Movie
His subjects have been vainly petitioning the king for improvements in his reign, without avail. The king pays too much attention to the sweetheart of a country bumpkin who shows his resentment by chasing his royal highness with a pistol and perforating the royal legs. The king takes refuge in the top of a tree, from which ignominious position he is finally rescued by his courtiers. In consideration of the bumpkin promising not to tell the queen of this latest escapade, the king grants the petition of his subjects.
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Hide and Seek
Title: Hide and Seek
Character: The Police Chief
Released: April 3, 1913
Type: Movie
A banker's young daughter, playing a game of "hide and seek", is apparently locked within the vault resulting in comedic rescue.
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On His Wedding Day
Title: On His Wedding Day
Character: Krause - the Bridegroom
Released: March 31, 1913
Type: Movie
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
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Love and Pain
Title: Love and Pain
Character: Jones
Released: March 17, 1913
Type: Movie
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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A Deaf Burglar
Title: A Deaf Burglar
Character: Society Party Guest
Released: March 13, 1913
Type: Movie
The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.
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A Strong Revenge
Title: A Strong Revenge
Character: Meyer
Released: March 9, 1913
Type: Movie
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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The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
Title: The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
Character: The Man
Released: March 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Advantage was taken of the fact that a floral parade was being held at Pasadena, Cal. in which the Keystone car was entered and won second prize, to produce a comedy film around the incident. Fred Mace and Mabel Normand are invited to take part in the parade, and Mack Sennett plans to keep her away and take her place Accordingly Mabel is locked up in her dressing room. But she escapes after considerable difficulty. She rushes to the line of march and makes frantic and amusing efforts to catch the Keystone automobile while the two sleuths attempt to dodge her. Mabel gets into difficulties with the police who are endeavoring to maintain order, and is championed by Ford Sterling, who is among the spectators.
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Red Hot Romance
Title: Red Hot Romance
Character: Antone
Released: February 27, 1913
Type: Movie
A burlesque of a Spanish courtship, in which two rivals for the hand of a beautiful senorita battle with each other.
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Heinze’s Resurrection
Title: Heinze’s Resurrection
Character: Heinze
Released: February 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Heinze is lazy, and his wife is disgusted with him. His friend, Pat, secretly admires Mrs. Heinze, and one day tells her to make Heinze help her with her work. Heinze refuses to assist her and is doused with a pail of water. Angered, he leaves the house and meets Pat, to whom he tells his troubles Pat advises him to play off dead, to see if his wife loves him.
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Her Birthday Present
Title: Her Birthday Present
Character: The Police Chief
Released: February 14, 1913
Type: Movie
A Keystone film, especially from the beginnings, is always worth attention.This film is notable for the profit which it manages to derive from derisory material. It plays more on the resources of comedy than those of burlesque.
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The Battle of Who Run
Title: The Battle of Who Run
Character: Mack's Commander
Released: February 6, 1913
Type: Movie
A Civil war comedy starring Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.
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Just Brown’s Luck
Title: Just Brown’s Luck
Character: A Friend
Released: February 3, 1913
Type: Movie
Brown is troubled with an over-abundance of affection, and his wife and mother-in-law convince him of their displeasure in many ways. Brown has a friend who has never met Brown's folks, and becomes acquainted with Mrs. Brown while she is with her mother. He invites them for an automobile ride and manages to start up the automobile as soon as Mrs. Brown has seated herself, leaving her mother behind. That worthy lady, however, runs after the machine and refuses to get lost. The friend has sent word to Brown to meet him at a restaurant, and Brown has a lot of nice champagne iced and awaits his guests. He is thunderstruck when his wife walks in, soon followed by his mother-in-law, who sit down to enjoy his hospitality.
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The Mistaken Masher
Title: The Mistaken Masher
Character: George
Released: January 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Georgie Burns is a conceited, athletic individual, who has turned his home into a gymnasium. His pretty wife is exceedingly vexed but cannot cure him of his love for strenuous sports. A forlorn tramp comes to the floor begging for a meal, and George promptly knocks him down.
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The Deacon Outwitted
Title: The Deacon Outwitted
Released: January 27, 1913
Type: Movie
The deacon's daughter, Betty, is in love with Harold Price. The deacon wants to buy a horse from Harry's father, but because Mr. Price will not give it to him at his own figure the deacon quarrels with Price, and forbids his daughter to see Harry. A troupe of minstrels, stranded, are walking back to New York, and Harry and Betty meet them. They make up as actors, and, accompanied by their new-found friends, rush to the deacon's home and tell him they are an eloping couple who wish to be married. The deacon ties the knot, and after the ceremony the make-up is removed, and he finds he has officiated at his own daughter's wedding. He finally sees the humor of the situation, and his charitable spirit is shared by Harry's father, who makes him a present of the horse he coveted.
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For Lizzie's Sake
Title: For Lizzie's Sake
Character: The Villian
Released: January 20, 1913
Type: Movie
A villain attempts to win the love of a pretty fisher girl, who is in love with a village youth. The villain finally kidnaps the girl and carries her out to a rock at low tide, where he ties her. He stands on the shore hoping that the rising water will force her to promise to marry him. The water rises higher and higher, tremendous waves dashing over the girl, and when it seems impossible for her to live another minute her sweetheart arrives with a crowd of the village people and rescues her.
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How Hiram Won Out
Title: How Hiram Won Out
Character: Alfred
Released: January 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Hiram, a country youth, is in love with Sallie. They go fishing and Sallie falls into the water. Hiram cannot swim, so he runs to the road and stops an automobile, driven by Alfred, a city chap. The latter rescues Sallie, and she feels grateful to him. His attentions to Sallie are not displeasing, and Hiram becomes insanely jealous.
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The Cure That Failed
Title: The Cure That Failed
Character: George - the Drinker
Released: January 13, 1913
Type: Movie
George is addicted to the flowing cup, and his friends all try to reform him. His intentions are good, but his will is weak and he cannot resist the companionship of bibulous friends. Drastic measures are resorted to, to cure him. One of his friends dresses as a woman, who presents a fierce aspect. When George awakens he is told that while under the influence of liquor he has married his woman, and she proceeds to assert herself. George is in a terrible mental state, but finally he sees the shoe of the "woman" who has forgotten to change those pedal protectors, and the scheme dawns upon him.
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Saving Mabel’s Dad
Title: Saving Mabel’s Dad
Character: Mabel's Dad
Released: January 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Three rivals are aspirants for the hand of Mabel. Dad falls asleep in a rowboat and is set adrift by one, who tries to win favor as a hero by rescuing him, using a motorboat going at lightning speed. He is exposed, however, and his work goes for naught, as Mabel clings to the man of her choice.
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Hoffmeyer's Legacy
Title: Hoffmeyer's Legacy
Character: Hoffmeyer
Released: December 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Hoffmeyer is harassed by creditors, but thinks his troubles are over when he receives a legacy of $500. He sneaks away from his wife to make a "flash" around town, and comes home at 2 A.M., feeling happy. His joy is short-lived, however, when he finds the door locked, and his spouse on the other side demands the money before she will permit him to enter. He takes half of it and hides it under a barrel, and his wife, peeping behind the curtain, sees him. After he has retired she goes out to get the rest of the money, and Hoffmeyer locks the door and refuses to let her in until she sends in the money. Clad in her nightgown, she is being thoroughly chilled, when she sees men approaching and runs away.
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Mabel’s Adventures
Title: Mabel’s Adventures
Character: The Magician
Released: December 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Mabel poses as "Cousin Jack" in a scheme to test her two quarreling suitors who decide to take young "Jack" to a cabaret.
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A Midnight Elopement
Title: A Midnight Elopement
Released: December 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other, but her father vehemently shows his disapproval of Jim. An elopement is planned, and at midnight Jim has the country magistrate waiting for him at the cross roads. He goes to tap on Sallie's window, but makes a mistake and awakens old man Rice, who, clad in his pajamas, pursues him with a shot-gun, and as Jim joins the magistrate, takes a pot shot at them, which finds lodgement in the judge's back. When Rice finds out what he has done, he is in fear of the law, but Jim pays the judge to settle the matter on condition that Rice gives his consent to his daughter's marriage.
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A Bear Escape
Title: A Bear Escape
Character: Bandit
Released: November 25, 1912
Type: Movie
Sleuths Mack and Fred go after bandit Ford, but wind up tied to a tree by the crook with a ferocious bear approaching.
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The Rivals
Title: The Rivals
Released: November 18, 1912
Type: Movie
Mabel prefers conceited Fred to earnest rube Mack, but when she is held up by tramps Fred runs out on her and leaves Mack to rescue her.
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Mr. Fixit
Title: Mr. Fixit
Released: November 18, 1912
Type: Movie
Bashful Mack has his friend Fred take flowers and presents to his girl Mabel by proxy, but the "friend" takes advantage and lures her to the altar in Mack's place.
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The Deacon's Troubles
Title: The Deacon's Troubles
Released: November 11, 1912
Type: Movie
The minister is appointed head of a purity league designed to keep a risque dancer from performing her act; however, the deacon becomes infatuated with the girl at an amusement park and has his picture taken with her, which causes much scandal and blackmail.
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A Temperamental Husband
Title: A Temperamental Husband
Character: Brown
Released: November 11, 1912
Type: Movie
Brown is insanely jealous of his wife and mistakes her brother for a lover, while the Brown's child is kidnapped by an evil tramp.
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At It Again
Title: At It Again
Character: Police Chief Larkin
Released: November 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Smith hired detectives to trail her husband, whom she believes is being unfaithful; police chief Larkin gets mistaken for Mr. Smith by the detectives, who raise hell when they catch him "cheating". Based on an extant still, this is the first verifiable Keystone Comedy to feature a group of comic cops.
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Mabel's Lovers
Title: Mabel's Lovers
Character: Black, another suitor
Released: November 4, 1912
Type: Movie
At a summer resort, Mabel puts ugly bumps under her bathing suit to discourage fair-weather suitors; however, Black sees her doing it, and earns the inside track to her affections.
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A Grocery Clerk's Romance
Title: A Grocery Clerk's Romance
Character: Grocery Clerk
Released: October 28, 1912
Type: Movie
Ford arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and marry Mrs. Brown. Locations include Rambo's Hotel, First Street in Coytesville, New Jersey, and Ford Lee, New Jersey area, probably in July or early August.
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At Coney Island
Title: At Coney Island
Character: married flirt
Released: October 28, 1912
Type: Movie
Mack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out of sight of a watchful wife and children.
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The Flirting Husband
Title: The Flirting Husband
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: October 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Smith's friends decide to teach her flirty husband a lesson by engaging him in a saucy game of "blind man's bluff" for his wife's discovery.
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The Ambitious Butler
Title: The Ambitious Butler
Character: chef
Released: October 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A cocky butler poses as a Count to win an heiress during his master's absence, but his scheme is foiled by the chef whom he snubbed.
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Stolen Glory
Title: Stolen Glory
Character: Captain Warner
Released: October 14, 1912
Type: Movie
Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the former's uniform and joins in the ranks of a parade, pursued by his rival. Utilizes footage shot during a Thomas Ince battle production at Inceville, the Grand Army of the Republic parade in downtown Los Angeles which commenced at 9:30am PST on September 11, 1912 (including starting area at 5th and Los Angeles and viewing stands near finish by Courthouse at Broadway and Temple), and other G.A.R. festivities at the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle in Los Angeles.
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Pedro's Dilemma
Title: Pedro's Dilemma
Character: her father
Released: October 7, 1912
Type: Movie
Mack attempts to elope with Mabel, but her friend dons the veil; this confuses both Mack and Mabel's dad Sterling - who trails the couple with the intention of breaking things up.
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The Beating He Needed
Title: The Beating He Needed
Character: his father
Released: October 7, 1912
Type: Movie
Effeminate college boy Mace is sent West by father Sterling to make a man out of him, but Mace only responds to a severe beating.
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The New Neighbor
Title: The New Neighbor
Released: September 29, 1912
Type: Movie
When a new neighbor attempts to save a young wife from an intruder, her husband misunderstands; the jealous husband raises a ruckus and winds up in court, where the judge turns out to be the new neighbor.
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Riley and Schultze
Title: Riley and Schultze
Character: Schultz
Released: September 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to apprehend an escaped convict. Probably the first Keystone film with comedic cops; Keystone trade ads upon its release heralded as, "An uproarious 'Cop' picture."
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Cohen Collects a Debt
Title: Cohen Collects a Debt
Character: Cohen
Released: September 23, 1912
Type: Movie
After second hand clothier Cohen receives $1000 from a rival firm (unaware that the amount was borrowed to force his bankruptcy), he must dodge a disguise-wearing bill collector. Filmed in the For Lee, New Jersey area, probably in July or early August, 1912.
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The Water Nymph
Title: The Water Nymph
Character: Mack's Father
Released: September 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.
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Tragedy of the Dress Suit
Title: Tragedy of the Dress Suit
Character: Landlord
Released: August 14, 1912
Type: Movie
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.
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An Interrupted Elopement
Title: An Interrupted Elopement
Released: August 14, 1912
Type: Movie
This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edward Dillon is trying to elope with Mabel Normand, but papa interferes. The big joke is when Ford Sterling and Elmer Booth kidnap the minister in order to marry Dillon and Normand. They mistakingly get Papa instead. It is the one strong gag in the film.
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The Inventor’s Secret
Title: The Inventor’s Secret
Released: October 23, 1911
Type: Movie
An old toymaker invents an automatic doll and goes to the lawyers to apply for a patent. That day a young girl is reported missing, and Dan, the cop, receives word that a reward of $500 is offered for solving the mystery of her disappearance. Dan's sweetheart gets a position as cook in the inventor's family, and catching a glimpse of the doll, thinks it is the missing girl. Dan for a while has a vision of $500, only to wake up to find both he and his sweetheart out of a job.