Alice Howell

Alice Howell

Born: May 19, 1886
Died: April 12, 1961
in New York City, New York
"The scream of the screen". One reviewer likened her to a "sort of Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Max Linder." All this was compressed into "one more or less diminutive package of femininity". Sometimes called "the girl Charlie Chaplin", she worked for Mack Sennett and later L-KO Kompany. Her early comedies were often produced by Universal Pictures.

Movies for Alice Howell...

The Junior Year
Title: The Junior Year
Released: September 3, 1928
Type: Movie
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Shipwrecked
Title: Shipwrecked
Character: Cook's Assistant
Released: May 9, 1926
Type: Movie
Larry O'Neil, a ship's cook, finds and befriends stowaway Lois Austin, who is a fugitive from a murder charge. The ship's captain, Klodel, also finds her and forces her to do his will as he has received a cablegram and knows she is hunted.
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The Pride of the Force
Title: The Pride of the Force
Character: The Girl
Released: September 11, 1925
Type: Movie
The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film
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That's the Spirit
Title: That's the Spirit
Character: Mrs. Green
Released: September 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.
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One Wet Night
Title: One Wet Night
Character: Nervy Ned's Wife
Released: April 13, 1924
Type: Movie
It's raining heavily, but at first the young husband and wife are not concerned about it. But the husband gets soaked on the way home from work, and then finds that the butler has left all of his suits hanging outside in the rain. Next, when some friends come to visit, they find that their troubles with water are just beginning.
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A Convict’s Happy Bride
Title: A Convict’s Happy Bride
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Alice and Phil's happy home is disrupted when their furniture is being repossessed by a huge bullying workman. To placate him, they try being nice and inviting him to dine with them, but fighting breaks out and the bully pretends to be murdered when a cop shows up, and Phil is sent to jail.
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Cinderella Cinders
Title: Cinderella Cinders
Character: Cinderella
Released: May 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Alice Howell plays a working girl who breaks into society through no fault of her own when asked to pose as royalty at a posh party. Spiked punch adds to the hilarity of the proceedings. A silent film inspired by the character of Cinderella, but with the contemporary setting.
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Her Lucky Day
Title: Her Lucky Day
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Alice Howell comedy short
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His Wooden Legacy
Title: His Wooden Legacy
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman played by Alice Howell receives an inheritance from her grandfather of his wooden leg.
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Distilled Love
Title: Distilled Love
Character: The Milkmaid
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
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Under a Spell
Title: Under a Spell
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of things.
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Hoot Toot
Title: Hoot Toot
Character: Magnolia Milkshake
Released: August 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Magnolia Milkshake, having a husband who is exempted because of possessing a disease which might be called "too much fat" is desirous of helping the boys across the ferry mop up Bill Hohenzollern's place, tries very hard to join the Red Cross. After various tests she is finally rejected. Since this plan didn't work out she decides to join the kaiser-killers herself and so enters the recruiting station right next door. Here she is again rejected because of a flat head. Having failed twice she goes home feeling that she needs a little training and uses poor delicate little hubby as the goat. While Magnolia is still hard at work training with some dummies, hubby gets a note from Nicholas Nutmeg inviting him to a game of poker, but also inviting his little bank roll. Magnolia sees the note, becomes furious, and here follow some lively chases which end with hubby in jail and Magnolia trying hard to enlist in the army.
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In Dutch
Title: In Dutch
Character: Hulda from Holland
Released: June 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Comedy short starring Alice Howell
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Neptune's Naughty Daughter
Title: Neptune's Naughty Daughter
Released: November 2, 1917
Type: Movie
A Century Film comedy short.
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Pirates of the Air
Title: Pirates of the Air
Character: The Head Waitress
Released: June 28, 1916
Type: Movie
The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress discovered the workshop where the proprietor was having the model duplicated and she was bribed not to say anything about what she saw. She started out with the bribe money to buy some gewgaws for herself, but she got in the road of a passing auto. Unfortunately, the auto contained the young Secret Service agent.
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How Stars are Made
Title: How Stars are Made
Character: Lillian Russell
Released: June 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Comedy short starring Alice Howell
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Under New Management
Title: Under New Management
Character: The Boss’s Wife
Released: October 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Web of office romance entanglements lead to slapstick hijinks at a fly paper company.
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Silk Hose and High Pressure
Title: Silk Hose and High Pressure
Character: Alice
Released: September 8, 1915
Type: Movie
It all starts when the actress-wife gives a midnight party to her former associates and Bill and Mr. Jowlish try to horn in on the revelry...
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Father was a Loafer
Title: Father was a Loafer
Character: The Deserted Wife
Released: February 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets, who chases him down and exacts comic justice.
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Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Title: Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Character: Woman (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Released: February 10, 1915
Type: Movie
When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Back Room Diner / Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1914
Type: Movie
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
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Cursed by His Beauty
Title: Cursed by His Beauty
Character: The Iceman's Wife
Released: October 31, 1914
Type: Movie
Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
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Shot in the Excitement
Title: Shot in the Excitement
Character: The Daughter
Released: October 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
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He Loved the Ladies
Title: He Loved the Ladies
Character: The Diner
Released: September 21, 1914
Type: Movie
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Bombs and Bangs
Title: Bombs and Bangs
Released: September 17, 1914
Type: Movie
Bombs and Bangs is a 1914 Comedy short.
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Lover's Luck
Title: Lover's Luck
Character: Leader of Snoopy Neighbors
Released: September 15, 1914
Type: Movie
A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
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A Coat's Tale
Title: A Coat's Tale
Released: August 8, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Great Toe Mystery
Title: The Great Toe Mystery
Character: The Wife (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1914
Type: Movie
A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
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Laughing Gas
Title: Laughing Gas
Character: Dentist's wife
Released: July 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
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Mabel's Married Life
Title: Mabel's Married Life
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
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Mabel's Busy Day
Title: Mabel's Busy Day
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1914
Type: Movie
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
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The Knockout
Title: The Knockout
Character: Spectator / Party Guest (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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Caught in the Rain
Title: Caught in the Rain
Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1914
Type: Movie
When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.
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Caught in a Cabaret
Title: Caught in a Cabaret
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.