Dot Farley

Dot Farley

Born: February 5, 1881
Died: May 2, 1971
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia

Dot Farley (February 6, 1881 – May 2, 1971) was an American film actress. She appeared in 280 films between 1910 and 1950. Mainly known for her roles in short comedies, prolific with Mack Sennett in the silent days; she was later notable as the Mother-in-law of Edgar Kennedy in most of his series of short films at the RKO studios. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in South Pasadena, California.

Movies for Dot Farley...

The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Woman Prisoner (Uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Variety Time
Title: Variety Time
Character: Edgar's Mother-in-Law (from "I'll Build It Myself") (archive footage)
Released: August 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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Do or Diet
Title: Do or Diet
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: February 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections, put him on a strenuous reducing program that nearly kills him.
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Motor Maniacs
Title: Motor Maniacs
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: July 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is coming to claim his bride. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law (Jack Rice) has bought an interest in an outboard motor that is supposed to run all day on a cupful of gas. The suitor says he will finance it if the test is a success. Edgar is accidently pulled into the lake with the motor and it works well, but the "rich" beau says he will finance it as soon as he can find somebody to finance the drilling of his first oil well.
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The Big Beef
Title: The Big Beef
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: October 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems and several slow-burns. The double-take slow-burn comes when the meat arrives in the form of a live, 1000-pound steer.
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It's Your Move
Title: It's Your Move
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: August 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.
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Feather Your Nest
Title: Feather Your Nest
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: October 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the scene, Edgar reluctantly pays for an engagement ring.
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San Fernando Valley
Title: San Fernando Valley
Character: Hattie O'Toole
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
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Radio Rampage
Title: Radio Rampage
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: March 28, 1944
Type: Movie
When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house doing this simple project is a foregone conclusion.
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Prunes and Politics
Title: Prunes and Politics
Character: Mrs. Eloise Farley
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
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Hot Foot
Title: Hot Foot
Character: Mother-in-Law
Released: May 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his best-laid plan takes another direction. His mother-in-law gives him a foot bath in a tub with what turns out to be quick-setting cement. His pal Sam drills a hole in the cement to blow the cement off with explosives, with a typical-Kennedy result... disaster.
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Hold Your Temper
Title: Hold Your Temper
Character: Edgar's Mother-in-Law
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.
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Cat People
Title: Cat People
Character: Mrs. Agnew (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
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Cooks and Crooks
Title: Cooks and Crooks
Character: Sally's Mother
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Bird Lover Who Did Paper on Shrikes (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Look Who's Laughing
Title: Look Who's Laughing
Character: Mary Blaize (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Title: $1,000 a Touchdown
Character: Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Large Woman (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Lawless Valley
Title: Lawless Valley
Character: Anna
Released: November 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
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Slander House
Title: Slander House
Character: Mrs. Willis
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
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The Stranger from Arizona
Title: The Stranger from Arizona
Character: Martha
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers.
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The Road to Reno
Title: The Road to Reno
Character: Mrs. Brumleigh (as Dorothy Farley)
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
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A Rented Riot
Title: A Rented Riot
Character: Errol's Mother-in-Law
Released: November 7, 1937
Type: Movie
While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.
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Too Many Wives
Title: Too Many Wives
Character: Mrs. Potts
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Woman Wanting Steve's Autograph (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Wanted: Jane Turner
Title: Wanted: Jane Turner
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
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Dummy Ache
Title: Dummy Ache
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
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Will Power
Title: Will Power
Character: Mother
Released: March 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a fake heart attack. Then, while he is supposed to be recovering, he taps into a source of mystical will power to do the rest.
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Gasoloons
Title: Gasoloons
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it themselves - but they aren't very good at it.
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Counselitis
Title: Counselitis
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.
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False Pretenses
Title: False Pretenses
Character: Mrs. Smythe
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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In Love at 40
Title: In Love at 40
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Edgar falls in love with another woman.
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Edgar Hamlet
Title: Edgar Hamlet
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: July 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.
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Brick-a-Brac
Title: Brick-a-Brac
Character: Mother
Released: January 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series, Edgar Kennedy lays bricks.
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Poisoned Ivory
Title: Poisoned Ivory
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she accidentally poisoned Edgar instead of giving him his real medicine.
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Fixing a Stew
Title: Fixing a Stew
Character: Leon's mother-in-law
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until he decides to sober up permanently.
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Down to Their Last Yacht
Title: Down to Their Last Yacht
Character: Passenger with Diamond Bracelets (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
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Wrong Direction
Title: Wrong Direction
Character: Edgar's Mother-in-Law
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) gets a call from the studio to come in and direct the last scene of a film in production. But, before he can leave the house, his wife Florence (Florence Lake) and her Mother (Dot Farley) make him dress the part with riding breeches, a beret, an ascot, a crop and riding boots, and this rig is met with much derision by both cast and crew when he arrives at the studio. Carol (Jean Fontaine), the star of the movie doesn't want Edgar as the director and makes things difficult for him, especially after she hears the producer (Nat Carr) tell him he is limited to making no more than two shots on any scene. Meanwhile, Florence, Mother and Brother (Billy Eugene)decide to drop in on the set and watch Edgar at work. Because of his relatives or Carol, Edgar is forced to shoot the same scene over and over.
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Love on a Ladder
Title: Love on a Ladder
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: March 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Florence wants to recapture the romance in her marriage and talks a reluctant Edgar into redonning his navy uniform and serenading her.
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Love Past Thirty
Title: Love Past Thirty
Character: Dressmaker
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.
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Bridal Bail
Title: Bridal Bail
Character: Mrs. Jones - June's Mother
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
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What Fur
Title: What Fur
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
1933 film short
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Curtain at Eight
Title: Curtain at Eight
Character: Ella, hefty actress
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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Quiet Please!
Title: Quiet Please!
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: August 10, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot find peace on the Pullman train he is traveling on.
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Good Housewrecking
Title: Good Housewrecking
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Edgar Kennedy and his family open a home decorating service, even though they have no clue what they are doing. The day of their first job, they make the mistake of going to the wrong house. The man of the house is not pleased with all the noise they are making and spends most of his time punching Edgar throughout the film.
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
Title: Torchy's Kitty Coup
Character: Aunt Zenobia
Released: January 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
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Lawyer Man
Title: Lawyer Man
Character: Client Paying $5,000 Fee (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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Fish Feathers
Title: Fish Feathers
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Edgar's mother-in-law claims that Edgar can't fish. Edgar is determined to prove her wrong.
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Trapped in Tia Juana
Title: Trapped in Tia Juana
Character: Aunt Emma
Released: August 14, 1932
Type: Movie
An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
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Giggle Water
Title: Giggle Water
Character: Florence's Mother
Released: June 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Edgar Kennedy and family builds a boat.
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While Paris Sleeps
Title: While Paris Sleeps
Character: Concierge
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 Law of the Tong
Title: The Law of the Tong
Character: Madam Duval
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.
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Disappearing Enemies
Title: Disappearing Enemies
Character: Aunt Molly
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies. Both are coming over to visit and spend the night.
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The Third Alarm
Title: The Third Alarm
Character: Woman Barber
Released: November 16, 1930
Type: Movie
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
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Traffic Tangle
Title: Traffic Tangle
Character: Mrs. Ginsberg
Released: November 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.
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Love Your Neighbor
Title: Love Your Neighbor
Released: October 12, 1930
Type: Movie
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
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Swell People
Title: Swell People
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Mrs.Van Dine
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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Road to Paradise
Title: Road to Paradise
Character: Lola
Released: July 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
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Radio Kisses
Title: Radio Kisses
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.
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Big Money
Title: Big Money
Released: April 30, 1930
Type: Movie
In the fifth of WB's Potter Family series, based on the characters created by J.P.McAvoy, Pa Potter (Lucien Littlefield) gets a job as a professional divorce-case correspondent. He is hired by a lawyer to make love to the wife of a man seeking a divorce. The problem is that Pa forgets to tell Ma (Lucille Ward) it is all make-believe.
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He Trumped Her Ace
Title: He Trumped Her Ace
Character: Dot
Released: March 23, 1930
Type: Movie
He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.
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Getting a Raise
Title: Getting a Raise
Released: February 17, 1930
Type: Movie
First in a series of shorts based on J. P. McEvoy's Tuttle Family characters. Pa Tuttle (Lucien Littlefield), with three kids to feed, strives to talk his skin-flint boss, (Dell Henderson), of a raise. Boss has an attitude that faithful employees should be happy just to be working for him.
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Harmony at Home
Title: Harmony at Home
Character: The Modiste
Released: January 12, 1930
Type: Movie
This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.
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Weak But Willing
Title: Weak But Willing
Character: Claire Finkel
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal, including a seductive Jean Harlow who tries to pick him up.
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Why Leave Home?
Title: Why Leave Home?
Character: Susan
Released: October 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Fox musical.
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Divorce Made Easy
Title: Divorce Made Easy
Character: Aunt Emma
Released: July 6, 1929
Type: Movie
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Calling Hubby's Bluff
Title: Calling Hubby's Bluff
Character: Widow Schultz
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky
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Marquis Preferred
Title: Marquis Preferred
Character: Mrs. Gruger
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
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Hubby's Weekend Trip
Title: Hubby's Weekend Trip
Character: Mrs. Bill Blake
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.
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His Unlucky Night
Title: His Unlucky Night
Character: Mrs. Trotter
Released: August 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
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The Girl from Nowhere
Title: The Girl from Nowhere
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
The Girl from Nowhere is a comedy short
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Celebrity
Title: Celebrity
Character: Mother
Released: July 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
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The Head Man
Title: The Head Man
Character: Mrs. Denny
Released: July 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
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The Code of the Scarlet
Title: The Code of the Scarlet
Character: Widow Malone
Released: July 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang. Through a ruse, Kenton manages to infiltrate the gang, which is holed up in the lawless community of Caribou Flats. While in the employ of villainous trading post operator Jack Blake, Kenton discovers that Blake is not only the leader of the gang but also the man who murdered Helen's brother.
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Lady Be Good
Title: Lady Be Good
Character: Texas West
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
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The Bicycle Flirt
Title: The Bicycle Flirt
Character: The Wife
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
The Bicycle Flirt is a silent comedy short
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The Garden of Eden
Title: The Garden of Eden
Character: Monte Carlo Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
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The Girl from Everywhere
Title: The Girl from Everywhere
Character: Madame Zweibach
Released: December 11, 1927
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Title: Breakfast at Sunrise
Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1927
Type: Movie
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
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The Climbers
Title: The Climbers
Character: Juana
Released: May 3, 1927
Type: Movie
The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
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His First Flame
Title: His First Flame
Character: Mrs. Benedict
Released: May 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Maidservant of Caiaphas
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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The Shamrock and the Rose
Title: The Shamrock and the Rose
Character: Mrs. Kelly
Released: April 14, 1927
Type: Movie
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
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The Overland Stage
Title: The Overland Stage
Character: Aunt Viney
Released: January 31, 1927
Type: Movie
At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wizard with the lariat.
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Golf Widows
Title: Golf Widows
Released: December 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Women won't let potential son-in-law marry her daughter unless he can get her husband to quit golfing.
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Young April
Title: Young April
Character: Maggie
Released: October 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
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The Family Upstairs
Title: The Family Upstairs
Character: Mademoiselle Clarice
Released: August 29, 1926
Type: Movie
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So This Is Paris
Title: So This Is Paris
Character: Madame Moreau (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.
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Money Talks
Title: Money Talks
Character: Mrs. Chatterton
Released: May 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.
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Matrimony Blues
Title: Matrimony Blues
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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Brooding Eyes
Title: Brooding Eyes
Character: Marie De Costa
Released: March 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out about this, they conspire to cheat her out of her inheritance by passing off one of the gangster's girlfriends as the real daughter. Unbeknownst to the gang, however, their leader isn't dead and finds out what they're up to. Complications ensue.
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The Little Irish Girl
Title: The Little Irish Girl
Character: Gertie
Released: March 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Title: The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Character: The Countess Prascovia Avaloff
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
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Memory Lane
Title: Memory Lane
Character: Maid
Released: February 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
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A Punch in the Nose
Title: A Punch in the Nose
Released: January 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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A Woman of the World
Title: A Woman of the World
Character: Mrs. Bierbauer
Released: December 28, 1925
Type: Movie
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
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The Red Kimona
Title: The Red Kimona
Character: The Inquisitive One
Released: November 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
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Rugged Water
Title: Rugged Water
Character: Mrs. Fuller
Released: August 17, 1925
Type: Movie
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
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Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Title: Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Character: Townswoman
Released: July 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.
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My Son
Title: My Son
Character: Hattie Smith
Released: April 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New England fishing village.
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Breaking the Ice
Title: Breaking the Ice
Character: The Maid
Released: April 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy.
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So Big
Title: So Big
Character: Widow Paarlenburg
Released: December 28, 1924
Type: Movie
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
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The Enemy Sex
Title: The Enemy Sex
Character: Ida Summers
Released: August 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
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The Signal Tower
Title: The Signal Tower
Character: Cousin Gertie
Released: July 19, 1924
Type: Movie
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
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Picking Peaches
Title: Picking Peaches
Character: The Customer
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
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Boy of Mine
Title: Boy of Mine
Character: Mrs. Pettis
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and heavy-handed treatment; she leaves and takes Bill with her. The father must decide what's more important--maintaining his iron discipline over his family, or his family itself.
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The Acquittal
Title: The Acquittal
Character: Maid
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
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Pitfalls of a Big City
Title: Pitfalls of a Big City
Character: Rodney's Mother
Released: September 2, 1923
Type: Movie
Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
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Tea- With a Kick!
Title: Tea- With a Kick!
Character: Mrs. Juniper
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
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Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
Title: Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
Character: Rodney's Mother
Released: July 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923
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When Knights Were Cold
Title: When Knights Were Cold
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1923
Type: Movie
Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by an army of knights, but both he and his pursuers ride music-hall half-horse costumes in lieu of real steads. He proceeds to fight, Fairbanks-like, dozens of swordsmen at once, and defeats his rival one-on-one, leaving him to marry the princess in a state ceremony.
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The Crossroads of New York
Title: The Crossroads of New York
Character: Landlady
Released: June 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
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Bright Eyes
Title: Bright Eyes
Character: The Ambitious Mother
Released: December 24, 1921
Type: Movie
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
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Astray from the Steerage
Title: Astray from the Steerage
Character: Mrs. Gabble - the Rich Husband's Mother-in-Law
Released: April 23, 1921
Type: Movie
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
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An Elephant on His Hands
Title: An Elephant on His Hands
Released: November 27, 1920
Type: Movie
In this two-reel silent short, Mack gets a letter telling him about a gift/inheritance from India, and it turns out to be two elephants.
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The Poor Rich Cleaners
Title: The Poor Rich Cleaners
Character: The Cook
Released: October 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Bud Duncan & Kewpie Morgan take a job as cleaners.
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The Paperhangers' Revenge
Title: The Paperhangers' Revenge
Character: The Cook
Released: April 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
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Sammy's Scandalous Scheme
Title: Sammy's Scandalous Scheme
Character: Dottie
Released: December 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Sammy can't get any attention from his girlfriend Dot because all she can think of is Charlie Chaplin. She sends Chaplin an enticing letter and Sammy a rejection, but the two get mixed up, so Sammy dresses up like Chaplin.
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Even Unto Death
Title: Even Unto Death
Character: Dorothea Gordon
Released: November 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Dorthea Gordon comes to a fishing village with her ill-tempered brother, Walter. She rows out to a rock to sketch the seals, but her boat drifts away and the rising tide sweeps her into the water. Her predicament is seen by Jack Livingston, the fisherman son of the village minister, and he rescues her. The pair begin seeing one another, but Walter thoroughly disapproves. When a gossip implies that Livingston's attentions are less than honorable, Walter confronts him and is killed in the ensuing struggle.
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Some Nerve
Title: Some Nerve
Character: The Wife
Released: December 25, 1913
Type: Movie
Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
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The Gusher
Title: The Gusher
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1913
Type: Movie
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
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Fatty Joins the Force
Title: Fatty Joins the Force
Character: Fatty's Sweetheart
Released: November 23, 1913
Type: Movie
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
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Wine
Title: Wine
Character: The Woman
Released: November 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.
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Algy on the Force
Title: Algy on the Force
Character: Algy's Sweetheart
Released: May 5, 1913
Type: Movie
Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a frock coat. A woman reports the theft of her watch by a thief with a soft hat and a frock coat and Algie goes out looking for the thief. He meets the chief of police and arrests him after a chase and a fight, and handcuffs his prisoner to a telegraph pole while he goes for assistance. The Captain's consternation can be imagined when he arrives with his men and finds his chief a prisoner.
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His Chum the Baron
Title: His Chum the Baron
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1913
Type: Movie
Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
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Bangville Police
Title: Bangville Police
Character: Della's Mother
Released: April 24, 1913
Type: Movie
A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
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A Fishy Affair
Title: A Fishy Affair
Character: Neighbor
Released: April 24, 1913
Type: Movie
A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
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Murphy's I.O.U.
Title: Murphy's I.O.U.
Character: Wife
Released: April 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's jewelry. She thinks she has been robbed and reports the matter to the police lieutenant. Amusing complications result in which Murphy's duplicity is exposed, and his wife administers punishment for his offense.
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A Life in the Balance
Title: A Life in the Balance
Character: The Landlord's Wife
Released: April 14, 1913
Type: Movie
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
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On His Wedding Day
Title: On His Wedding Day
Character: The Bride
Released: March 31, 1913
Type: Movie
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
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A Deaf Burglar
Title: A Deaf Burglar
Character: A Neighbor
Released: March 13, 1913
Type: Movie
The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.
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A Strong Revenge
Title: A Strong Revenge
Character: Party Guest
Released: March 9, 1913
Type: Movie
Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.
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The Rural Third Degree
Title: The Rural Third Degree
Character: Si's Bride
Released: March 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The bride samples it in Si's absence, and being unaccustomed to drink, is overcome and falls on the table in a stupor. Si discovers her just as a party of neighbors are coming to congratulate the young couple and hides her in the yard, laying her on a bench. An inquisitive visitor finds her and reports to the constables that Si has killed his wife, and he is apprehended.
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Peril of the Plains
Title: Peril of the Plains
Character: Eliza - the Mother
Released: September 16, 1912
Type: Movie
The first Warner Brothers production. The production was shot in St. Louis, Missouri.
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The Ranchman's Vengeance
Title: The Ranchman's Vengeance
Character: Marie
Released: May 14, 1911
Type: Movie
Lorenz Pedro, a Mexican half-breed, owns a small sheep ranch, and lives happily with his wife Marie and little daughter Lois. One exceedingly hot afternoon, Tom Flint, riding across the ranch looking for work is overcome by the heat, and Pedro, acting the part of a good Samaritan, takes him to his home, where Marie, through careful nursing, soon has him quite himself again. Pedro is out daily with his flock, leaving Marie and Flint together, offering an opportunity which Flint ungratefully takes advantage of, resulting in his completely winning Marie's love. Manuelito, Marie's father, is suspicious and comes upon them while Flint is declaring his love.
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A College Chicken
Title: A College Chicken
Released: August 3, 1910
Type: Movie
A College Chicken tells the story of a chicken that is stolen multiple times.
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One Cylinder Love
Title: One Cylinder Love
Character: The Society Girl's Mother
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.