Arthur Housman

Arthur Housman

Born: October 8, 1889
Died: April 8, 1942
in New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia

Arthur Housman (October 10, 1889 – April 8, 1942) was an American actor in films during both the silent film era and the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Initially as a leading man, Housman later became known as Hollywood's most familiar comic drunkard in films of the 1930s, usually playing cameo parts in features but with better opportunities in short films. His best remembered roles were in several Laurel and Hardy films, notably Scram!, Our Relations and (in the title role) The Live Ghost. He also played a frustrated timekeeper in the Three Stooges' film Punch Drunks.

Housman died of pneumonia at age 52. He was married to Ellen Grubley (31 July 1893 - 21 May 1960) from 1919 until his death in 1942.

Movies for Arthur Housman...

A Hit with a Miss
Title: A Hit with a Miss
Character: Fight Timekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
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Escort Girl
Title: Escort Girl
Character: Al, the Drunk (as Arthur Houseman)
Released: November 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an undercover agent to infiltrate the bureaus.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Saloon Janitor (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Drunk in Saloon
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Title: The Villain Still Pursued Her
Character: Mr. McGillicuddy - Drunk (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Radio Listener (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: Drunk Wanting Directions (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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The Flying Deuces
Title: The Flying Deuces
Character: Drunk Legionnaire
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.
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Blondie Takes a Vacation
Title: Blondie Takes a Vacation
Character: Drunk on Train (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Drunk in Barroom
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Jonathan (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Navy Secrets
Title: Navy Secrets
Character: Phoney Drunk
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Drunk Next to Grandma (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Hard to Get
Title: Hard to Get
Character: Drunk on Subway (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: First Communist
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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Where the West Begins
Title: Where the West Begins
Character: Beano, Jack's Cellmate
Released: February 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Lynne Reed, Jack Manning's fiancée, is stagestruck and wants to go to New York for a career. She is encouraged in this delusion that she is a great actress by Barnes, who offers to buy her ranch, cheaply of course, so she can have enough money to get to the Big City. Barnes has Jack thrown into jail on a trumped-up charge of cattle rustling, and organizes a lynching party to get Jack permanently out of the way. Things get more complicated when Buzz, Jack's pal, discovers the secret of Lynne's ranch. How he engineers Jack's escape, and how they save Lynne adds suspense to a surprise climax.
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Man-Proof
Title: Man-Proof
Character: Drunk Sourpuss with Capon (uncredited)
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
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Double or Nothing
Title: Double or Nothing
Character: Drunk
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Title: Step Lively, Jeeves!
Character: Max
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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With Love and Kisses
Title: With Love and Kisses
Character: Gilbert Holbrook
Released: December 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he owed to his friends: $200.
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Racing Blood
Title: Racing Blood
Character: Legs
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.
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Am I Having Fun!
Title: Am I Having Fun!
Character: 'Scoop' McGoogle
Released: September 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then the real Indian comes and he gets confusion about what kind of Indian he's supposed to be.
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Our Relations
Title: Our Relations
Character: Drunk
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Drunk
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Riffraff
Title: Riffraff
Character: 'Ratsy'
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
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It Always Happens
Title: It Always Happens
Character: Drunk
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Souse
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Art - Waiter at Party (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Title: The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Character: Cliff
Released: July 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Scottsdale Bar Drunk (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Paris in Spring
Title: Paris in Spring
Character: Interviewer
Released: May 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
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Sing Sister Sing
Title: Sing Sister Sing
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
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The Fixer Uppers
Title: The Fixer Uppers
Character: The Drunk
Released: February 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.
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Treasure Blues
Title: Treasure Blues
Character: Sailor
Released: January 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
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Here Is My Heart
Title: Here Is My Heart
Character: Waiter
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
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The Live Ghost
Title: The Live Ghost
Character: Drunken sailor
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Fish market workers Stan and Ollie are persuaded by a sea captain to shanghai a crew for him at the local bar for a dollar a head. Successful at first, the boys end up getting themselves shanghaied, and the crew vow revenge.
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Done in Oil
Title: Done in Oil
Character: Arthur
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Drunken Man (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Dick Harris
Released: October 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
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Gridiron Flash
Title: Gridiron Flash
Character: Drunk
Released: October 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
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The Hollywood Gad-About
Title: The Hollywood Gad-About
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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Something Simple
Title: Something Simple
Character: Drunk
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
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Punch Drunks
Title: Punch Drunks
Character: Fight Timekeeper (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
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Wedding Belles
Title: Wedding Belles
Released: June 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Lloyd stows away on a ship to be near his girlfriend.
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Benny, from Panama
Title: Benny, from Panama
Character: Drunken, Irate Husband
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the guests show up at their apartment, disrupting the building. Then, a rowdy sailor friend of Eddie's shows up, accompanied by a squad of even rowdier buddies and an enormous vengeful mosquito.
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Elmer Steps Out
Title: Elmer Steps Out
Released: February 28, 1934
Type: Movie
To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with a wife and child.
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Babes in the Goods
Title: Babes in the Goods
Character: The Drunk
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
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Bridal Bail
Title: Bridal Bail
Character: Drunk
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
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The Way to Love
Title: The Way to Love
Character: Drunk Being Photographed
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
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Her Bodyguard
Title: Her Bodyguard
Character: Drunk
Released: July 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other.
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Roadhouse Queen
Title: Roadhouse Queen
Character: Arthur Young - Attorney
Released: June 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road house where she is performing to lay down the law.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Reggie Wayne
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
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Wreckety Wrecks
Title: Wreckety Wrecks
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
When the boys run over a dummy, they think they've killed someone. They decide to dispose of the "body" and mistake a seminary for a cemetery.
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Men Must Fight
Title: Men Must Fight
Character: Drunk on Ship
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
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She Done Him Wrong
Title: She Done Him Wrong
Character: Hungry Barfly (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1933
Type: Movie
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
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No More Orchids
Title: No More Orchids
Character: Serge
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Archie (drunk)
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Customer Who Didn't Order Rabbit
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Scram!
Title: Scram!
Character: Drunk
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.
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While Paris Sleeps
Title: While Paris Sleeps
Released: May 8, 1932
Type: Movie
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: Drunk
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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Anybody's Blonde
Title: Anybody's Blonde
Character: Mulligan
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.
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Night Life in Reno
Title: Night Life in Reno
Character: Roy Carlton
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
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Five and Ten
Title: Five and Ten
Character: Piggy - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1931
Type: Movie
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
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Next Door Neighbors
Title: Next Door Neighbors
Character: Herman Andrews
Released: January 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.
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Help Wanted, Female
Title: Help Wanted, Female
Released: January 11, 1931
Type: Movie
A new housekeeper, her son, and two not-too-bright burglars wreak havoc at a doctor's office.
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Part Time Wife
Title: Part Time Wife
Character: Golf Spectator (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1930
Type: Movie
The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty (Leila Hyams). For lack of anything else to do, Betty takes up golf, soon achieving professional status. Meanwhile, Jim's doctor advises him to start playing golf as an outlet for his frustrations. Sure enough, Jim and Betty are reteamed on the links, and all is well -- for everyone except Betty's erstwhile beau Tommy Milligan (Tom Clifford)
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Feet First
Title: Feet First
Character: Drunken clubman
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Sidney Dick
Released: October 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
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Rolling Along
Title: Rolling Along
Released: September 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
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The Squealer
Title: The Squealer
Character: Mitter Davis
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
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Alias French Gertie
Title: Alias French Gertie
Character: Bert
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.
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Officer O'Brien
Title: Officer O'Brien
Character: Tony Zurick
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify against the racketeer. Meanwhile, Captain Antrim informs Bill that his father has just been released from prison and does not know his son is a policeman. On the way from prison, O'Brien (J. P.) meets Limo, a former cockney pal who recognizes Bill and keeps J. P. from seeing his son; later, J. P. arrives intoxicated and is enraged, forcing Bill to knock him unconscious. J. P. is arrested for robbery but returns the loot to save his son from disgrace; Johnny is killed before testifying against Patello, who is released but confronted by J. P., who proves his guilt and, when he struggles with the police, kills him. Bill plans to resign, but confident of Ruth's love, he decides to remain on the force.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Released: September 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.
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Side Street
Title: Side Street
Character: Silk Ruffo
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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Times Square
Title: Times Square
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.
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Broadway
Title: Broadway
Character: Dolph
Released: May 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
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Howling Hollywood
Title: Howling Hollywood
Released: April 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A Hollywood satire in slapstick.
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Queen of the Night Clubs
Title: Queen of the Night Clubs
Character: Andy Quinland
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
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Sins of the Fathers
Title: Sins of the Fathers
Character: The Count
Released: December 28, 1928
Type: Movie
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
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The Singing Fool
Title: The Singing Fool
Character: Blackie Joe
Released: September 29, 1928
Type: Movie
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way.
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Fools for Luck
Title: Fools for Luck
Character: Charles Grogan
Released: June 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Barton
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is taken captive by the criminals. Suspected of the crime, he is sought by the police, but his sweetheart, Marie, convinced of his innocence, enlists the help of two friends, a newspaper reporter and a half-witted detective. Hoping to win the girl's favor, the two go to the gangsters' hideout, encounter a violent gang war, and accidently set off a case of police tear bombs. The police, summoned by Marie, arrive just in time to save the kidnaped attorney.
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The Spotlight
Title: The Spotlight
Character: Ebbetts
Released: November 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better coaching from Daniel Hoffman, a theatrical producer. As Olga Rostova, an exotic Russian, she meets Norman Brooke, whose infatuation turns to love. Hoffman suggests that Norman could never care for Lizzie and proves his point. Heartbroken, Lizzie decides to see no more of him. On closing night, when he proposes to her in her dressing room and she refuses, Norman declares he must believe all the lurid details of her past; in desperation, she bares her true identity, only to find it is not her glamorous image but rather her real self that he loves.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Title: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Character: The Obtrusive Gentleman
Released: November 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Rumors for Rent
Title: Rumors for Rent
Character: Warren
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
A 1927 comedy film
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Rough House Rosie
Title: Rough House Rosie
Character: Kid Farrell
Released: May 14, 1927
Type: Movie
A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.
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Just a Husband
Title: Just a Husband
Character: Warren
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Warren and Helen have an unplanned honeymoon in Death Valley.
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Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Title: Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Character: Salesman
Released: December 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon falls in love with the assistant shipping clerk, Roy Davis, and is promoted to chief model for the firm, owing to the patronage of Morton, the wealthy and wicked manager. Bertha is about to take a position in Paris as designer when Morton lures her to his home.
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Whispering Wires
Title: Whispering Wires
Released: October 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
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The Midnight Kiss
Title: The Midnight Kiss
Character: Hector Spencer
Released: October 10, 1926
Type: Movie
While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas from going broke. Mildred works up a business arrangement, whereby she will sell Thomas' father's 250 pigs for a dollar each. Though Lenore is appalled by Mildred's "disgraceful" behavior, the younger girl quickly earns the respect of everyone in town
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The Non-Stop Bride
Title: The Non-Stop Bride
Character: Barney
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Arthur Housman gets invited into a ranch house.
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The Bat
Title: The Bat
Character: Richard Fleming
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: Frank Nelson
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
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The Desert's Price
Title: The Desert's Price
Character: Tom Martin
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Returning from college, Wils McCann discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and their neighbors is actually the fault of the nasty Martin brothers. In love with neighbor girl Julia Starke, Wils succeeds in setting the record straight and disarming the villainous brothers.
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Thunder Mountain
Title: Thunder Mountain
Character: Joe Givens
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
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The Coast of Folly
Title: The Coast of Folly
Character: Newspaper Reporter
Released: September 21, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent film drama...
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Night Life of New York
Title: Night Life of New York
Character: Jerry
Released: August 2, 1925
Type: Movie
John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald, tired of living in Iowa, is determined to take up residence in Manhattan. The elder Bentley therefore conspires with his New York manager, William Workman, to involve Ronald in so much trouble that he will gladly return to the sedate life of an Iowa burgher. Arriving in Manhattan, Ronald strikes up an acquaintance with Meg, a telephone operator, whose brother, Jimmy, has come under the evil influence of Jerry. Jerry and Jimmy rob a wealthy woman, and Ronald is charged with the crime on circumstantial evidence, keeping quiet in order to protect Jimmy.
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The Necessary Evil
Title: The Necessary Evil
Character: Pug
Released: May 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama
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A Man Must Live
Title: A Man Must Live
Character: Tod Cragge
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
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Manhandled
Title: Manhandled
Character: Chip Thorndyke
Released: July 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
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Under the Red Robe
Title: Under the Red Robe
Character: Captain La Rolle
Released: November 12, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
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Wife in Name Only
Title: Wife in Name Only
Character: Victor Harwood
Released: August 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Wealthy orphan Philippa L'Estrange loves handsome Norman Arleigh and is confident of marrying him until he discloses that he has only brotherly affection for her. Determined to have revenge, Philippa introduces Arleigh to Madeline Dornham and reveals on their wedding day that Madeline, his bride, is the daughter of the man who killed his mother. In the end it is learned that Madeline is Mrs. Dornham's daughter from a previous marriage, not the daughter of a criminal.
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Man Wanted
Title: Man Wanted
Character: Edgar Little
Released: October 13, 1922
Type: Movie
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Why Announce Your Marriage?
Title: Why Announce Your Marriage?
Released: January 20, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Way of a Maid
Title: The Way of a Maid
Character: Jimmy Van Trent
Released: November 30, 1921
Type: Movie
A silent film comedy.
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Clay Dollars
Title: Clay Dollars
Released: October 19, 1921
Type: Movie
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Nearly Spliced
Title: Nearly Spliced
Released: June 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Leon Errol is a befuddled bridegroom about to get hitched to a pretty lass. If he can only get to the church on time.
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The Misleading Lady
Title: The Misleading Lady
Character: Reporter
Released: December 20, 1920
Type: Movie
Jack Craigen, an engineer who has just finished a construction job in South Africa, returns to New York. There, at the home of his Uncle Cannell, he meets stage-struck society girl Helen Steele and her playwright fiancé Tracey. Scheming to win the lead in their new production, The Siren , Helen wagers Cannell and Tracey that she can vamp Jack--a notorious woman-hater--and have him propose to her in a week.
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The County Fair
Title: The County Fair
Character: Bruce Hammerhead
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son. While she's dead set against it, the niece is a sweet thing and would do anything to help her aunt--even marry the rich jerk. However, a possible way out is presented. When a poor young man is taken in and fed, he turns out (naturally) to be a jockey and thinks he can win the $3000 prize at the fair and save the farm.
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The Flapper
Title: The Flapper
Character: Tom Morran
Released: May 10, 1920
Type: Movie
A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.
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The Blooming Angel
Title: The Blooming Angel
Character: Ramon
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student who aspires to be an orator. When Chester's salary as an insurance clerk proves insufficient for the couple's needs, Claire invents a complexion cream called "Angel Bloom." Deciding to combine Chester's oratory prowess with the promotion of Angel Bloom, Floss rents an elephant, coats it with the cream and plans to have Chester pitch the product from the back of the animal.
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The Gay Lord Quex
Title: The Gay Lord Quex
Character: Valma
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his reputation, Muriel finally capitulates to his charms and agrees to marry him. In her heart, however, Muriel still treasures an affection for Caption Bastling, a fortune hunting womanizer, and when Muriel is told of Lord Quex's continuing contact with the Duchess of Dowager, a situation brought about through the scheming of the Duchess, Muriel turns to Bastling and agrees to meet him at her friend Sophie Fullgarney's manicurist shop.
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Back to the Woods
Title: Back to the Woods
Released: May 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Harold and Snub are self-proclaimed big-game hunters who stop at a remote outpost. They hire two native guides to lead them into the woods, but the guides run in terror when they see a rather tame bear in the distance. Harold is annoyed that he cannot find any bears to hunt--unaware that two timid bears are closely following him. Meanwhile Snub encounters an equally tame wildcat who eats his picnic lunch. Snub sprints away. Back at the outpost, Harold twice rescues Jeanne--once from the clutches of an unwanted suitor and once from one of the bears. The grateful, gun-toting Jeanne tells Harold she wants him to be her "sweetie."
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The End of the Road
Title: The End of the Road
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
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Back to the Woods
Title: Back to the Woods
Character: Bill Andrews
Released: July 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Daughter of an Eastern lumber king, Stephanie Trent travels in the guise of a schoolteacher to the logging village of Trentsville to search for "a real man." There she meets Jimmy Raymond, a young novelist posing as a local while writing his story. When Stephanie comes to Jimmy's cabin to report a supposed plot against him, he acts as though he intends to assault her. She nearly throws herself out the window but is stopped by Jimmy, who explains that he is working on a novel and merely wanted to determine a young girl's reactions. In retaliation, she orders that he be kidnapped and held in a nearby cabin, but remorsefully nurses him back to health when he is shot trying to escape.
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All Woman
Title: All Woman
Character: Dick Wellman
Released: June 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a run-down inn with an attached saloon. As she struggles to make something of her new operation, she becomes involved in the life and difficulties of her new community....
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Brown of Harvard
Title: Brown of Harvard
Character: Happy
Released: January 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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Red, White and Blue Blood
Title: Red, White and Blue Blood
Released: November 24, 1917
Type: Movie
A hard-core socialite turns over a new leaf after spending time with a less fortunate family.
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It May Be You
Title: It May Be You
Character: Jack Kenwood
Released: July 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Jack goes from business to business, trying to sell ad space in his newspaper. At each stop he catches the boss in a compromising position with a secretary. He writes an editorial about the practice, hinting that he could expose prominent businessmen. Suddenly everyone wants to buy ads in his paper.
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Getting to the Ball Game
Title: Getting to the Ball Game
Released: November 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Mr. Meekley, a baseball fan, has a flat tire on his way to a pennant game. He remains determined to make it to the game regardless of this and further setbacks. The film's climax was shot at a pivotal game between the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Mr. Toots' Tooth
Title: Mr. Toots' Tooth
Character: Mr. Toots
Released: September 30, 1913
Type: Movie
A short silent film in which Mr. Toots miraculously loses his tooth. Mister Toots tries everything to cure his toothache. He eventually succeeds with a string and a book. Furious with the staff, he throws the book towards them, and is then freed of his sore tooth.
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The Edison Minstrels
Title: The Edison Minstrels
Character: Interlocutor
Released: February 17, 1913
Type: Movie
A group of actors in various costumes including powdered-wigged 18th century interlocutor, and black-faced comedian side men, engage in some jokes and sing several songs
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Jack's Joke
Title: Jack's Joke
Character: Ned Brown
Released: February 7, 1913
Type: Movie
A comic sketch that features two players who think each one is deaf, causing them to shout. Part of the Edison Kinetophone Collection. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of creating talking pictures. Unlike previous systems, in which actors would be required to lip sync to preexisting recordings on camera, the Kinetophone was one of the earliest film technologies to record sound at the same time as the image.
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At Bear Track Gulch
Title: At Bear Track Gulch
Character: Townsman
Released: January 14, 1913
Type: Movie
This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, produced a decade earlier.
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How a Horseshoe Upset a Happy Family
Title: How a Horseshoe Upset a Happy Family
Character: Tim Flanagan - Horseshoe Target
Released: December 28, 1912
Type: Movie
A farce in which Ms. Murphy finds that a horseshoe brings her anything but happiness.
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An Old Fashioned Elopement
Title: An Old Fashioned Elopement
Released: December 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Short comedy
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A Thrilling Rescue by Uncle Mun
Title: A Thrilling Rescue by Uncle Mun
Released: November 13, 1912
Type: Movie
A man goes undercover and plays golf.
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Everything Comes to Him Who Waits
Title: Everything Comes to Him Who Waits
Character: Waiter
Released: February 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Cud McGiven applies for employment in a Bowery restaurant. The restaurant is conducted by a German, who engages Cud. Whenever Cud finds himself alone in the pantry he exercises his mania for juggling plates with disastrous results to the crockery. Every time the proprietor bears a crash he is Johnny-on-the-spot and takes out his little book to jot down the damage and charge it to Cud. At last the proprietor loses all patience and decides to discharge Cud. Accordingly he summons him to his private office and demands a settlement of the broken dishes and spoiled food. Cud is unable to see the situation this way at all. The disagreement waxes hot and furious and Cud in revenge breaks all the dishes in the pantry. The riot brings the frightened guests to their feet, where they stand spellbound at seeing a half of the waiters flee before the burly Cud, who is flinging plates after them with the accuracy of a baseball pitcher.