Dorothea Wolbert

Dorothea Wolbert

Born: April 11, 1874
Died: September 15, 1958
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Dorothea Wolbert...

Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Dorothea Wolbert
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Three Husbands
Title: Three Husbands
Character: Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Old Lady (Uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Woman in Store (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Flower Woman (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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The Night of Nights
Title: The Night of Nights
Character: 2nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Minor Role
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Bidder (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Postal Inspector
Title: Postal Inspector
Character: Mrs. Coates (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Hector's Wife (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Heir to Trouble
Title: Heir to Trouble
Character: Tillie Tilks
Released: December 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
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Paris in Spring
Title: Paris in Spring
Character: Francine
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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Motive for Revenge
Title: Motive for Revenge
Character: Annie - Maid (as Dorothy Wolbert)
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
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Autobuyography
Title: Autobuyography
Character: Mrs. Errol
Released: March 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Mrs. Burns (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Title: Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Character: Apple Mary
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Two Seconds
Title: Two Seconds
Character: Lizzie, Cleaning Lady
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
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The Expert
Title: The Expert
Character: Annie
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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Friends and Lovers
Title: Friends and Lovers
Character: Bertha the Barmaid
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
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Too Many Cooks
Title: Too Many Cooks
Character: Aunt Emma Cook
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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The Front Page
Title: The Front Page
Character: Jenny
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
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Borrowed Wives
Title: Borrowed Wives
Character: Aunt Mary
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
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The Medicine Man
Title: The Medicine Man
Character: Miss Wilson
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
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Dangerous Paradise
Title: Dangerous Paradise
Character: Mrs. Schomberg
Released: February 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
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Love and Learn
Title: Love and Learn
Character: Maid
Released: January 14, 1928
Type: Movie
In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.
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The Battle of the Century
Title: The Battle of the Century
Character: Warring pedestrian (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
Title: A Sailor's Sweetheart
Character: Lena Svenson
Released: September 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of Sandy McTavish, a romantic sailor and Charlotte Ralston is just around the corner.
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Snowbound
Title: Snowbound
Character: Maid
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is actually in love with Alice Blake. He encounters complications with motorcycle cop Bull, who is engaged to Julia. A friend of Alice adds to the mix-up. All wind up snowbound together in a mountain lodge.
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Exit Smiling
Title: Exit Smiling
Character: Anna (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1926
Type: Movie
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
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The College Boob
Title: The College Boob
Character: Aunt Polly
Released: August 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Ally Appleby is a country boy headed for the college campus, courtesy of his Aunt Polly and Uncle Lish. They're financing his education providing that he stay away from sports. Before his train even arrives at its destination, he earns the enmity of senior Horatio Winston. Winston is determined to make Appleby into the college boob and his plan is working until pretty coed Angel Boothby reveals the plot.
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A Woman of the World
Title: A Woman of the World
Character: Annie
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 Guilty One
Title: The Guilty One
Character: Anne
Released: June 8, 1924
Type: Movie
The Guilty One is a 1924 mystery film.
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A Lady of Quality
Title: A Lady of Quality
Character: Mistress Wimpole
Released: January 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated by her forthcoming marriage, threatens to blackmail her. She buries the body in the cellar and admits her act to the forgiving Osmonde before marrying him.
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Abysmal Brute
Title: Abysmal Brute
Character: Mrs. MacTavish
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.
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The Flirt
Title: The Flirt
Character: The Cook
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
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The Ninety and Nine
Title: The Ninety and Nine
Character: Mrs. Markham
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Melodramatic thriller, presented in 9.5mm format
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Nanny Webster
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
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Action
Title: Action
Character: Mirandy Meekin
Released: September 12, 1921
Type: Movie
Three Outlaws came across a stranded baby and must decide to save the child or escape from the law.
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Pink Tights
Title: Pink Tights
Character: Mrs. Bump
Released: September 25, 1920
Type: Movie
When a circus troupe comes to a small, extremely conservative New England town, the residents go to their minister to have him protest the scandalous fact that the female tightrope walker wears a pair of pink tights. When she has an accident and is forced to recuperate at the minister's house, he has to hide her in order to avoid even more of a scandal. Mazie Darton, a high-wire performer with a traveling circus, longs for a peaceful country life. Forced to stay in a small town while laid up with an injury, Darton is spurned by the conservative townspeople. Rev. Jonathon Meek, the local parson, befriends the circus troupe, especially Darton. But he, too, opens himself to criticism from his flock, who protest his closeness with the show people. Eventually, Darton's boyfriend arrives and the pair become closer. The parson fades from the scene as a possible mate for Darton, who ends up winning the hearts of the townspeople.
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La La Lucille
Title: La La Lucille
Character: Fannie, the Janitor's Wife
Released: July 19, 1920
Type: Movie
John Smith inherits two million dollars from his wealthy aunt on the condition that he divorce his wife Lucille, a former vaudeville performer. In order to qualify for his inheritance, John concocts the idea of divorcing his wife and then remarrying her.
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Cupid Forecloses
Title: Cupid Forecloses
Character: Mrs. Farleigh
Released: July 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
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The Solitary Sin
Title: The Solitary Sin
Released: July 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.
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Swat the Crook
Title: Swat the Crook
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.
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Pistols for Breakfast
Title: Pistols for Breakfast
Released: June 8, 1919
Type: Movie
A 1919 Comedy short.
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The Marathon
Title: The Marathon
Character: The Rich Girl's Mother
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
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Young Mr. Jazz
Title: Young Mr. Jazz
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
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Next Aisle Over
Title: Next Aisle Over
Character: Old Maid Passerby on Street (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
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I'm on My Way
Title: I'm on My Way
Released: March 8, 1919
Type: Movie
Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her. But then he meets the clan of Snub Pollard where it's a riot all the time.
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Hustling for Health
Title: Hustling for Health
Released: February 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Stan Laurel is picked up at the train depot and brought back by the husband to the family home where the wife is having a suffragette meeting. None too pleased they cause mayhem and then the neighbours are brought into it as Stan cleans up the backyard by throwing all the rubbish into their award winning garden.
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The Enchanted Barn
Title: The Enchanted Barn
Character: Mrs. Hollister
Released: January 27, 1919
Type: Movie
The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will see, for he is a young man with fine ideals, and he is not content with establishing Shirley and her family in the quaintly beautiful old place, but makes the world a much happier place to live in for all of them.
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Do You Love Your Wife?
Title: Do You Love Your Wife?
Released: January 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and being chased by the police.
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She Loves Me Not
Title: She Loves Me Not
Released: December 29, 1918
Type: Movie
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Hear 'Em Rave
Title: Hear 'Em Rave
Released: December 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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Just Rambling Along
Title: Just Rambling Along
Released: November 3, 1918
Type: Movie
A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.
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Sic 'Em, Towser
Title: Sic 'Em, Towser
Released: June 9, 1918
Type: Movie
At a masquerade ball, our hero, in a tramp costume, is arrested when they think he is a real hobo. In the meantime, an actual hobo, at the party, is treated like a guest.
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Fireman Save My Child
Title: Fireman Save My Child
Released: May 25, 1918
Type: Movie
In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
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Kicked Out
Title: Kicked Out
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.
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Hey There
Title: Hey There
Released: April 28, 1918
Type: Movie
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
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Look Pleasant, Please
Title: Look Pleasant, Please
Character: Old Maid Customer (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
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Bashful
Title: Bashful
Character: The Cook (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1917
Type: Movie
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
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Birds of a Feather
Title: Birds of a Feather
Released: October 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
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By the Sad Sea Waves
Title: By the Sad Sea Waves
Character: Old Maid Bather in Shower
Released: September 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
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Pinched
Title: Pinched
Released: September 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.
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Over the Fence
Title: Over the Fence
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.
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Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
Title: Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
Released: August 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
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Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Title: Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Released: August 5, 1917
Type: Movie
While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
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Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
Title: Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Directed by Hal Roach. With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Bud Jamison.
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Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
Title: Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
Released: February 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Lonesome Luke, Lawyer is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.