Louise Fazenda

Louise Fazenda

Born: June 16, 1895
Died: April 17, 1962
in Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Movies for Louise Fazenda...

Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Title: Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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Wedding Yells
Title: Wedding Yells
Character: Bessie Biddlebump
Released: March 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
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The Old Maid
Title: The Old Maid
Character: Dora
Released: August 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Mrs. Greevey (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Aunt Ida
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Swing Your Lady
Title: Swing Your Lady
Character: Sadie Horn
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.
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First Lady
Title: First Lady
Character: Mrs. Lavinia Mae Creevey
Released: December 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
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Merry Go Round of 1938
Title: Merry Go Round of 1938
Character: Mrs. Penelope Updike
Released: November 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Abbie Belldon
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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The Road Back
Title: The Road Back
Character: Angelina
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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Ready, Willing and Able
Title: Ready, Willing and Able
Character: Clara Heineman
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
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I Married a Doctor
Title: I Married a Doctor
Character: Bea Sorenson
Released: April 25, 1936
Type: Movie
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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Doughnuts and Society
Title: Doughnuts and Society
Character: Kate Flannagan
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.
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Colleen
Title: Colleen
Character: Alicia Ames
Released: March 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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A Dream Comes True
Title: A Dream Comes True
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Title: The Widow from Monte Carlo
Character: Rose Torrent
Released: December 19, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
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Bad Boy
Title: Bad Boy
Character: Mrs. Harris
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Mrs. Flagenheim
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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The Casino Murder Case
Title: The Casino Murder Case
Character: Becky
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
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The Winning Ticket
Title: The Winning Ticket
Character: Nora Tomasello
Released: February 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Bessie Opitz
Released: December 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Pansy Pratt
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: White Queen
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Hunting Trouble
Title: Hunting Trouble
Character: Walter's Wife
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A wife tries to hide a surprise birthday present from her husband but the butler causes trouble.
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The Unwritten Law
Title: The Unwritten Law
Character: Lulu Potts
Released: November 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
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Once in a Lifetime
Title: Once in a Lifetime
Character: Helen Hobart
Released: October 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Running Hollywood
Title: Running Hollywood
Character: Louise Fazenda
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
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Racing Youth
Title: Racing Youth
Character: Daisy Joy
Released: January 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A young man is mistaken for his boss.
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The Cuban Love Song
Title: The Cuban Love Song
Character: Elvira
Released: November 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
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The Mad Parade
Title: The Mad Parade
Character: Fanny Smithers
Released: September 18, 1931
Type: Movie
The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.
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Newly Rich
Title: Newly Rich
Character: Maggie Tiffany
Released: July 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
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Blondes Prefer Bonds
Title: Blondes Prefer Bonds
Character: The Wife
Released: May 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of their courtship...the big hats and big bustles. Neither does much to rekindle the husband's dying flame but does attract the attention of a couple of other men.
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Misbehaving Ladies
Title: Misbehaving Ladies
Character: Aunt Kate Boyd
Released: April 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the debts left by her now-deceased husband. However, when she returns early, no one recognizes her and even her aunt Kate mistakes her for the princess' dressmaker. Her ex-boyfriend Joe, who recognizes her immediately, suggests that Ellen continue with the charade and have some fun, but a series of misunderstandings causes trouble for her.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
Character: Herself
Released: April 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in shooting a golf instruction film. Louise Fazenda however has no knowledge of golf and her ongoing commentary disrupts Jones's attempts to practice. While Cagney and Bushell hold Louise's mouth shut, Jones demonstrates his approach to golf. Later, upon arrival of director George Marshall, Louise is sent off "to practice" alone while the cast and crew go about shooting the film.
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Gun Smoke
Title: Gun Smoke
Character: Hampsey Dell
Released: April 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
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Second Hand Kisses
Title: Second Hand Kisses
Character: Gwen
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other knows nothing about.
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The Itching Hour
Title: The Itching Hour
Character: Gwendolyn Sheepshire
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy night in a strange hotel that seems to be haunted.
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Viennese Nights
Title: Viennese Nights
Character: Gretl Kruger
Released: November 25, 1930
Type: Movie
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
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Boarding House Blues
Title: Boarding House Blues
Character: Gwendolyn Sheepshire
Released: October 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
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Leathernecking
Title: Leathernecking
Character: Hortense
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
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Rain or Shine
Title: Rain or Shine
Character: Frankie
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
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Bride of the Regiment
Title: Bride of the Regiment
Character: Teresa
Released: May 21, 1930
Type: Movie
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.
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Spring Is Here
Title: Spring Is Here
Character: Emily Braley
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.
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High Society Blues
Title: High Society Blues
Character: Mrs. Granger
Released: March 23, 1930
Type: Movie
After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house adjacent to Horace Divine, a wealthy businessman with whom he made his business transaction...
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Loose Ankles
Title: Loose Ankles
Character: Aunt Sarah Harper
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
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Wide Open
Title: Wide Open
Character: Agatha Hathaway
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: Sue Smith
Released: January 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
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The Broadway Hoofer
Title: The Broadway Hoofer
Character: Jane
Released: December 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter Bobby Lewis (Egan) of the barnstorming Gay Girlies Burlesque Company arrives in town, he picks an incognito Adele among all the pretty village girls to star in his new show. On a lark, Adele introduces her maid Jane (Louise Fazenda) as her mother and accepts a contract. When Adele's identity is finally revealed, the slumming star apologizes for her deception by offering Bobby a Broadway job.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: 'Recitations' Sketch (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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Faro Nell
Title: Faro Nell
Character: Faro Nell
Released: October 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Sweet Nell is the jewel of Dry Gulch and all of the eligible bachelors seek her hand. The townsfolk are willing to shoot any stranger who casts aspersions on her honor - and rule it a legal suicide. The men are crestfallen when she chooses Dick to be her beau. A jealous suitor frames the lucky cowpoke for murder.
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On With the Show!
Title: On With the Show!
Character: Sarah
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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Hot Stuff
Title: Hot Stuff
Character: Aunt Kate
Released: May 5, 1929
Type: Movie
An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.
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House of Horror
Title: House of Horror
Character: Louise
Released: April 28, 1929
Type: Movie
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: Susan
Released: April 8, 1929
Type: Movie
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
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Stark Mad
Title: Stark Mad
Character: Mrs. Fleming
Released: February 2, 1929
Type: Movie
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
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Riley the Cop
Title: Riley the Cop
Character: Lena Krausmeyer
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: Mable
Released: November 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Hilda / Tavern Maid
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Mrs. Elvery
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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Heart to Heart
Title: Heart to Heart
Character: Aunt Katie Boyd
Released: July 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Princess Delatorre, young and beautiful widow of an Italian scion of royalty, returns with her fortune to the small American town where she grew up as Ellen Gutherie. Arriving by train a few days earlier than she planned, Ellen is mistaken for Mrs. Arden, a seamstress of doubtful repute from a neighboring town. She carries on the deception for fun when her nearsighted Aunt Katie and others believe she is Mrs. Arden. Phil, her old sweetheart, recognizes her, however, and shows her his new invention, a corkscrew that turns itself--a failure because of prohibition. Ellen leaves, having heard how much store is set on her coming; she returns on the proper train, elaborately made up as Princess Delatorre, and the big reception takes place as planned. Then she and Phil return to Italy, where they expect the corkscrew to be a success.
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Vamping Venus
Title: Vamping Venus
Character: Maggie Cassidy / Circe
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.
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Pay as You Enter
Title: Pay as You Enter
Character: Mary Smith
Released: May 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.
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Domestic Troubles
Title: Domestic Troubles
Character: Lola
Released: March 28, 1928
Type: Movie
A Silent film comedy directed by Ray Enright.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Tillie
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
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A Texas Steer
Title: A Texas Steer
Character: Mrs. Ma Brander
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him. The same can't be said for his social-climbing wife and his man-crazy daughter Bossy. His wife, with the help of some political bosses, helps Maverick get elected to Congress, where he manages to get in all sorts of trouble, including getting blackmailed by opponents of a bill he's trying to get passed.
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Ham and Eggs at the Front
Title: Ham and Eggs at the Front
Character: Cally Brown
Released: November 29, 1927
Type: Movie
Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
Title: A Sailor's Sweetheart
Character: Cynthia Botts
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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Simple Sis
Title: Simple Sis
Released: June 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Simple Sis is a 1927 American silent comedy-melodrama directed by Herman C. Raymaker and starring Louise Fazenda as a poor, plain laundress hoping for romance, supported by Clyde Cook as a shy suitor and Myrna Loy as a cruel beauty. No copies of Simple Sis are known to exist; it is presumed lost.
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Cradle Snatchers
Title: Cradle Snatchers
Character: Susan Martin
Released: May 28, 1927
Type: Movie
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college boys-- Henry Winton, Oscar, and Joe Valley-- to flirt with them at a house party. Joe Valley, who poses as a hot-blooded Spaniard, is vamped by Ginsberg in female attire, and Oscar, a bashful Swede, uses caveman methods when aroused. During a rehearsal of the party, the three husbands arrive, followed by their flapper friends, leading to comic complications.
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Babe Comes Home
Title: Babe Comes Home
Character: Laundry Girl
Released: May 22, 1927
Type: Movie
A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.
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The Red Mill
Title: The Red Mill
Character: Gretchen
Released: January 29, 1927
Type: Movie
A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
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Finger Prints
Title: Finger Prints
Character: Dora Traynor
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
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Ladies at Play
Title: Ladies at Play
Character: Aunt Katherine
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel clerk to marry her in name only, and then get a divorce, but he refuses to because he is in love with her. Her cousin then brings in another clerk and Ann now has two men on her hands. Ann now wants to marry the first clerk, having discovered she also loves him, but the aunts object. She then hires two gigolos to charm her aunts into a compromising situation.
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The Lady of the Harem
Title: The Lady of the Harem
Character: Yasmin
Released: November 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, but Hassan leads a surprise attack on the palace and the lovers are united.
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The Old Soak
Title: The Old Soak
Character: Annie
Released: October 11, 1926
Type: Movie
To the distress of his family, Clem Hawley, retired from his garage business, spends his time and money in the company of Al, the local bootlegger.
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Millionaires
Title: Millionaires
Character: Reba, Esther's Sister
Released: October 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
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The Passionate Quest
Title: The Passionate Quest
Released: July 10, 1926
Type: Movie
The Passionate Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924 novel The Passionate Quest by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film stars May McAvoy, Willard Louis, Louise Fazenda, Gardner James, Jane Winton, and Holmes Herbert.
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Miss Nobody
Title: Miss Nobody
Character: Mazie Raleigh
Released: June 27, 1926
Type: Movie
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dressed as a man.
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Footloose Widows
Title: Footloose Widows
Character: Flo
Released: June 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
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The Bat
Title: The Bat
Character: Lizzie Allen
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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Hogan's Alley
Title: Hogan's Alley
Character: Dolly
Released: December 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
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Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: Sweetie
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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Compromise
Title: Compromise
Character: Hilda
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Compromise is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.
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Grounds for Divorce
Title: Grounds for Divorce
Character: Marianne
Released: July 27, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Night Club
Title: The Night Club
Character: Carmen
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
After having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ever do with women. However, he soon discovers that he has been left a fortune--on condition that he gets married. Deciding that being rich and married would be preferable to being broke and single, he goes in search of a wife, but things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
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Déclassé
Title: Déclassé
Character: Mrs. Walton
Released: April 11, 1925
Type: Movie
The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treats her shamefully. She falls in love with Ned Thayer, a young American, but refuses to divorce her husband because of the attendant scandal and disgrace. Sir Bruce gains possession of a love letter written to Ned by Lady Helen and divorces her. Ned goes to Africa, and Lady Helen comes to the United States, where she encounters Rudolph Solomon, an art collector who wants her to become his mistress. The noblewoman at first refuses, but when her money runs out, she agrees to the proposal and attends a party at his home. Ned, who has learned of the divorce, comes looking for Helen and meets her at Solomon's party. Lady Helen is so humiliated and ashamed that she rushes from the house and throws herself in front of an automobile.
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A Broadway Butterfly
Title: A Broadway Butterfly
Character: Cookie Dale
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
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The Price of Pleasure
Title: The Price of Pleasure
Character: Stella Kelly
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a young millionaire and she was only a "Bargain "Basement" girl, but they had one week of paradise that started two years of drama. The truest, sweetest love story in years.
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Cheaper to Marry
Title: Cheaper to Marry
Character: Flora
Released: February 9, 1925
Type: Movie
Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married than to continually "play the field". The main reason he's doing that is because Jim is obsessed with the beautiful Evelyn, a gold-digger on whom Jim is spending prodigious amounts of money. Things take a turn for the worse when his spending on her gets to the point where it's placing the firm dangerously close to bankruptcy. Something has to be done.
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
Title: The Lighthouse by the Sea
Character: Flora Gale
Released: December 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
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What a Night!
Title: What a Night!
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
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This Woman
Title: This Woman
Character: Rose
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale, and Marc McDermott. Based on the 1924 novel This Woman by Howard Rockey, it was released by Warner Bros. on November 2, 1924.
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Being Respectable
Title: Being Respectable
Character: Deborah Carpenter
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
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Dizzy Daisy
Title: Dizzy Daisy
Character: Daisy - the Fisherman's Daughter
Released: June 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Louise gets hired as a maid for a swank society party, but the it's really a set up for a bunch of tough jewel robbers. She gets hold of the swag and a big slapstick chase along a highway and beach ensues.
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True As Steel
Title: True As Steel
Character: Miss Leeds
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Successful middle-aged manufacturer Frank Parry takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes infatuated with Eva Boutelle, manager of the Swansea Cotton Mills. For a time, their affair develops, but Eva remains true to her husband ...
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Title: The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Character: Sally, a country girl
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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The Wanters
Title: The Wanters
Character: Mary
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
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The Gold Diggers
Title: The Gold Diggers
Character: Mabel Munroe
Released: September 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar decides to 'gold dig' Stephen, to show him what a nice and unselfish girl Violet is, but then she realizes that she's really in love with Stephen Lee....
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Tea- With a Kick!
Title: Tea- With a Kick!
Character: Birdie Puddleford
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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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Tilly Nelson
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Mary of the Movies
Title: Mary of the Movies
Character: Louise Fazenda (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
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Main Street
Title: Main Street
Character: Bea Sorenson
Released: April 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
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The Fog
Title: The Fog
Character: Millie Richards
Released: January 18, 1923
Type: Movie
Silent World War I (WWI) romantic melodrama (based on the novel by William Dudley Pelly) .
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The Beautiful and Damned
Title: The Beautiful and Damned
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Gloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Title: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Character: Mandy Skinner
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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The Beauty Shop
Title: The Beauty Shop
Character: Cremo Panatella
Released: May 13, 1922
Type: Movie
Dr. Budd is a New York physician specializing in "beauty". His business is successful but he is still plagued by money problems. One day he gets an idea--he obtains the coat-of-arms of a long-forgotten Italian noble family, the Bolognias, and uses it as his logo on his line of beauty products.
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Bright Eyes
Title: Bright Eyes
Character: The Golfer
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: The Immigrant Wife
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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The Quack Doctor
Title: The Quack Doctor
Character: The Hired Lady
Released: July 4, 1920
Type: Movie
In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Louise - the Farmer's Daughter
Released: April 17, 1920
Type: Movie
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
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Hearts and Flowers
Title: Hearts and Flowers
Character: Flower Girl
Released: June 22, 1919
Type: Movie
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
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Why Beaches Are Popular
Title: Why Beaches Are Popular
Character: Louise Fazenda
Released: May 10, 1919
Type: Movie
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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The Village Chestnut
Title: The Village Chestnut
Character: Adoring Student
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Comedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
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Are Waitresses Safe?
Title: Are Waitresses Safe?
Character: Only a Working Girl
Released: November 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
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Her Torpedoed Love
Title: Her Torpedoed Love
Character: The Servant Girl
Released: May 13, 1917
Type: Movie
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
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Her Fame and Shame
Title: Her Fame and Shame
Character: Maggie - the Hasher
Released: March 24, 1917
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda.
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Maggie's First False Step
Title: Maggie's First False Step
Character: Maggie - the Country Girl
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Maggie's First False Step
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Bombs!
Title: Bombs!
Character: Miss Peanutty - the Italian's Daughter
Released: October 7, 1916
Type: Movie
A World War 1 slapstick comedy from Keystone.
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The Feathered Nest
Title: The Feathered Nest
Character: Mona Haye
Released: August 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Keystone-Triangle comedy starring Louise Fazenda and Charles Murray.
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The Marble Heart
Title: The Marble Heart
Released: March 5, 1916
Type: Movie
Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, becomes the adopted daughter of her aunt, Madame Roger, keeper of a haberdashery shop in one of the smaller villages in southern France. She grows up with Camille, Madame Roger's son, a sickly, sexless creature, whom she ultimately marries in deference to her aunt's wishes.
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A Submarine Pirate
Title: A Submarine Pirate
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1915
Type: Movie
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
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Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Title: Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Character: Edgar's Wife
Released: July 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
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A Hash House Fraud
Title: A Hash House Fraud
Character: The Cashier
Released: June 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
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A Versatile Villain
Title: A Versatile Villain
Character: The Sheriff's Daughter
Released: May 29, 1915
Type: Movie
After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.
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Crossed Love and Swords
Title: Crossed Love and Swords
Character: The Guest of Honor
Released: May 12, 1915
Type: Movie
It's love among the elite in this Keystone from 1915, in which normal-looking people in well-fitting clothes go through the same sort of hi-jinks that the hoi polloi do. It's a couple of minutes before the first weird mustache appears and it took me twice that to recognize that bright eyed, lanky girl with the snub nose as Louise Fazenda.
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A Bear Affair
Title: A Bear Affair
Character: The Lodgekeeper's Wife
Released: April 28, 1915
Type: Movie
Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
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Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Title: Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Character: The Proprietress
Released: April 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger.
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Ambrose's Lofty Perch
Title: Ambrose's Lofty Perch
Released: April 2, 1915
Type: Movie
King Ambrose chooses a queen from among the maidens of his kingdom. After they are married, Robin, a young man the queen had known earlier, attempts to steal her from her royal husband. Robin shoots arrows with notes attached and the queen initially runs away with him. The queen, however, rejects her former suitor in favor of the king after Ambrose saves her from a snake. Her rejected suitor plots with the jester to bomb the palace but their plot backfires.
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Ambrose's Little Hatchet
Title: Ambrose's Little Hatchet
Character: The Wife
Released: March 15, 1915
Type: Movie
Mack Swain is making a dress for Louise Fazenda. He discovers his dressmaker's dummy requires his adjustment, so he pulls out his hatchet for the job. Through the window shade, onlookers -- including her husband -- see him as killing a woman.
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Willful Ambrose
Title: Willful Ambrose
Character: Ma Ambrose
Released: March 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Marksman Ambrose accidentally shoots a beer stein his wife has bought for him as a gift, so he tries to replace it.
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The Great Vacuum Robbery
Title: The Great Vacuum Robbery
Character: 1st Thief
Released: January 1, 1915
Type: Movie
A couple hatch a novel plan to rob a bank: they'll crawl down a heating duct and use a vaccum cleaner to suck the money out of the vault.
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In the Year 2014
Title: In the Year 2014
Released: January 31, 1914
Type: Movie
On this certain afternoon in the year 2014, Mrs. Jones, and her daughter, stock brokers, advertise for a first-class stenographer. Charles Van Doren, a defenceless young man, striving to make a livelihood in the big city, and at the same time retain his good name, calls on Jones' daughter, and is at once accepted as the new stenographer. He has not been there long, however, when Mrs. Jones takes advantage of his innocence, and makes improper advances to him.
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Mike and Jake as Heroes
Title: Mike and Jake as Heroes
Released: December 17, 1913
Type: Movie
By deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl.
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When Joe Went West
Title: When Joe Went West
Released: December 1, 1913
Type: Movie
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Poor Jake's Demise
Title: Poor Jake's Demise
Character: Servant
Released: August 16, 1913
Type: Movie
Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.