Alice Davenport

Alice Davenport

Born: February 29, 1864
Died: June 24, 1936
in New York City, New York, USA
Alice Davenport (née Shepphard; February 29, 1864 – June 24, 1936) was an American film actress. She appeared in 140 films from 1911 to 1930.

Davenport made her stage debut at age 5. She married silent actor, director, and talkie character actor Harry Davenport. They divorced in 1896. Actress Dorothy Davenport was their daughter. She married, secondly, to Edwin H. Morse.

[biography from Wikipedia]

Movies for Alice Davenport...

The Dude Wrangler
Title: The Dude Wrangler
Character: Dude Guest
Released: July 1, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
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Oh, Mabel Behave
Title: Oh, Mabel Behave
Character: The Innkeeper's Wife
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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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Audience member
Released: March 19, 1922
Type: Movie
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
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The Sleep of Cyma Roget
Title: The Sleep of Cyma Roget
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chandra Dak, who can cast her at will into a hypnotic state resembling death. Chandra Dak's power over Cyma wanes as his love for her grows, however, and one night she escapes and takes refuge in the atelier of three young and struggling Bohemian artists. During her stay at the atelier, she becomes an artist's model and forms an attachment to one of the artists, Paul Bridere, but soon Chandra Dak falls out of love with Cyma and sends her into a hypnotic coma.
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How Dry I Am
Title: How Dry I Am
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
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Rip & Stitch: Tailors
Title: Rip & Stitch: Tailors
Character: Rip's Wife
Released: February 9, 1919
Type: Movie
Comedy Short
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Little Red Decides
Title: Little Red Decides
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
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Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Title: Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Character: Lady Platt
Released: April 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Short comedy
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Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
Title: Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Directed by Hal Roach. With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Bud Jamison.
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Maggie's First False Step
Title: Maggie's First False Step
Character: Maggie's Mother
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Maggie's First False Step
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The Snow Cure
Title: The Snow Cure
Character: Minor Role
Released: April 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.
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Wife and Auto Trouble
Title: Wife and Auto Trouble
Character: The Wife's Mother
Released: March 5, 1916
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
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Because He Loved Her
Title: Because He Loved Her
Character: The Cashier's Mother
Released: January 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Sam Bernard in the kitchen cooking up something for his loved one.
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Title: Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Character: Woman at Studio
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 Mother
Released: November 28, 1915
Type: Movie
About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.
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My Valet
Title: My Valet
Character: Mrs. Stebbins - Mabel's Mother
Released: November 7, 1915
Type: Movie
The parents of a wealthy young man arrange for him to marry a woman he has never seen. When he meets and falls for a young woman he convinces his valet to switch places. The idea is that the valet will make a bad impression on the fiance, the wedding will canceled and the hero can marry his true love. There is only one problem, his love and unseen fiance are the same woman.
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Dirty Work in a Laundry
Title: Dirty Work in a Laundry
Character: The Landlady
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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Mabel Lost and Won
Title: Mabel Lost and Won
Character: Mabel's Mother
Released: June 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess. When an annoying party guest persuades Mabel to dance with him, Mabel hurries through the dance and then goes to look for her fiancé, only to discover him caressing another woman. Her fiancé finds not only Mabel, but also her mother, very displeased, and not inclined to believe his explanation.
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Mabel’s Wilful Way
Title: Mabel’s Wilful Way
Character: Mabel's Mother
Released: May 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.
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Wished on Mabel
Title: Wished on Mabel
Character: Mabel's Mother
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.
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That Little Band Of Gold
Title: That Little Band Of Gold
Character: Mabel's Mother
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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From Patches to Plenty
Title: From Patches to Plenty
Character: Streetcar Accident Victim's Mother
Released: March 6, 1915
Type: Movie
A poor man finds a bag with a lot of money resulting in a change of lifestyle. But not without complications...
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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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A Bird's a Bird
Title: A Bird's a Bird
Character: Mrs. Spegle
Released: February 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
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The Home Breakers
Title: The Home Breakers
Character: Mrs. Ambrose
Released: February 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Title: Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Character: Woman Behind Rope in 2nd Crowd (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
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Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Title: Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Character: Flirty Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1915
Type: Movie
When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.
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Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Title: Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
Character: Fatty's Nagging Wife
Released: January 14, 1915
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Guest at Party (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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Fatty's Magic Pants
Title: Fatty's Magic Pants
Character: Party Hostess
Released: December 13, 1914
Type: Movie
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
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The Sea Nymphs
Title: The Sea Nymphs
Character: Fatty's Mother-in-Law
Released: November 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Fatty, his wife and mother-in-law are on a ferry to Catalina Island for an outing. So are Mabel and her father. Mabel and Fatty flirt with each other, and Fatty tosses her father overboard, thinking he is another suitor. The boat docks and the two go their separate ways. Mack Swain tries to pick Mabel up, too. All go to rent bathing suits, Fatty locks Mack in a dressing room with mother-in-law. Fatty and Mabel feed a large fish to a seal at the water's edge, and then engage in some graceful and comic diving. Swain, Avery, Durfee and Davenport see them diving and corner them...everyone's relationship to each other is revealed. —Ben Model, ben@silentclowns.com
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Cursed by His Beauty
Title: Cursed by His Beauty
Character: The Art Student
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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Gentlemen of Nerve
Title: Gentlemen of Nerve
Character: Patron at Outdoor Bar
Released: October 29, 1914
Type: Movie
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: The Girl's Mother
Released: October 22, 1914
Type: Movie
The Love Thief
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Hello, Mabel
Title: Hello, Mabel
Character: The Married Flirt's Wife
Released: October 8, 1914
Type: Movie
Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.
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He Loved the Ladies
Title: He Loved the Ladies
Character: The Wife
Released: September 21, 1914
Type: Movie
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Those Country Kids
Title: Those Country Kids
Character: Mabel's Mother
Released: August 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
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The Property Man
Title: The Property Man
Character: Actress (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
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Mabel's New Job
Title: Mabel's New Job
Character: Boarding House Proprietor
Released: July 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A lost short film starring Mabel Normand.
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Love and Bullets
Title: Love and Bullets
Character: Minta's Mother
Released: July 4, 1914
Type: Movie
Love and Bullets is a 1914 Comedy short
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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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Caught in the Rain
Title: Caught in the Rain
Character: Wife (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: Mabel's Mother (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.
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Mabel at the Wheel
Title: Mabel at the Wheel
Character: Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1914
Type: Movie
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.
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The Star Boarder
Title: The Star Boarder
Character: Landlady's Friend (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1914
Type: Movie
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
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Tango Tangle
Title: Tango Tangle
Character: Guest with Man in Overalls (uncredited)
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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Love and Gasoline
Title: Love and Gasoline
Released: February 21, 1914
Type: Movie
A short comedy directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. believed to be a lost film.
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The Water Dog
Title: The Water Dog
Character: The Woman Fatty Kisses (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1914
Type: Movie
The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
Title: Mabel's Strange Predicament
Character: The Wife (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1914
Type: Movie
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
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Making a Living
Title: Making a Living
Character: Fiancée's Mother (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1914
Type: Movie
A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.
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Won in a Closet
Title: Won in a Closet
Character: His Mother
Released: January 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
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The Under-Sheriff
Title: The Under-Sheriff
Character: The Sheriff's Wife's Mother
Released: January 8, 1914
Type: Movie
The Under-Sheriff is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and George Nichols.
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Mother's Boy
Title: Mother's Boy
Character: Mother
Released: September 25, 1913
Type: Movie
Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.
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When Dreams Come True
Title: When Dreams Come True
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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Mabel's Dramatic Career
Title: Mabel's Dramatic Career
Character: Mack's Mother
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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The Riot
Title: The Riot
Character: Irish Neighborhood Leader's Wife
Released: August 7, 1913
Type: Movie
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.
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A Noise from the Deep
Title: A Noise from the Deep
Released: July 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.
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Love and Rubbish
Title: Love and Rubbish
Character: Woman with Straw-Hatted Man
Released: July 14, 1913
Type: Movie
Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.
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The Telltale Light
Title: The Telltale Light
Character: Questioning Woman
Released: July 10, 1913
Type: Movie
The Telltale Light is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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The Hansom Driver
Title: The Hansom Driver
Character: Mabel's Mother
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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Passions, He Had Three
Title: Passions, He Had Three
Character: Jenny's Mother
Released: June 5, 1913
Type: Movie
Henry is a big, fat country boy with three passions. He likes eggs, milk and girls. He steals the eggs from the nests, sucks their contents, and refills the shells with water. When the family sit down to breakfast and the shells are broken the crime is discovered and Farmer Jones places a big bear trap, covered with straw, in front of the nests.
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Toplitsky and Company
Title: Toplitsky and Company
Character: Mrs. Toplitsky
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 Ragtime Band
Title: The Ragtime Band
Character: Mabel's mother
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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Just Brown’s Luck
Title: Just Brown’s Luck
Character: Brown's Mother-in-Law
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: Mabel's Mother
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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Mabel's Stratagem
Title: Mabel's Stratagem
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: December 29, 1912
Type: Movie
Fred Mace plays a businessman with two secretaries. He gets playful with the second secretary, Mabel Normand. His wife, Alice Davenport walks in on him. He does some nice embarrassed husband pantomime. Davenport fires the two secretaries and tell Fred that he will only have male secretaries from now on. The next day, Mabel arrives in drag as a boy to apply for the job. The wife takes him into the next office and starts to make a pass at him.
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Drummer’s Vacation
Title: Drummer’s Vacation
Released: December 23, 1912
Type: Movie
A traveling man is vacationing at a summer resort kept by a farmer and his wife, and falls in love with a rich widow. The spooning of the two gets on the farmer's nerves, and he tries in various ways to discourage them. Twice, peeking through the window, he finds the flirtatious drummer making a fuss over his own wife, and when he rushes in he finds that the widow has returned and is occupying the drummer's attention. He gets his shotgun and tries to scare the drummer with it, but his wife takes it away from him and stands guard over him while she makes him do the kitchen work.
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Mabel's Lovers
Title: Mabel's Lovers
Character: her mother
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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At It Again
Title: At It Again
Character: woman
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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The Ambitious Butler
Title: The Ambitious Butler
Character: mother
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: Widow Simpson
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.