
Birthday:
02-15-1895
Deathday:
11-05-1963 (68 years)
Birthplace:
San Jose, California, USA
Biography
Vernon Bruce Dent (February 16, 1895 – November 5, 1963) was an American comic actor, who appeared in over 400 films. He co-starred in many short films for Columbia Pictures, frequently as the foil and the main antagonist and ally to The Three Stooges.
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Fuelin' Around
Act like General
event1949 star_border 7
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The Stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel.
The Cameraman
Act like Man in Tight Bathing Suit (uncredited)
event1928 star_border 7.9
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A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Hopping Bells
event1920
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The misadventures of a hotel bell hop played by Hank Man
Road to Hollywood
Act like A Film Director
event1947 star_border 4.3
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Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography.
The Sound of Laughter
Act like Adolph (Airplane Passenger) / Football Coach
event1963 star_border 2
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A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Feet of Mud
Act like Football Coach
event1924 star_border 7
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As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himself comes with an "engineering" job with the city. But it's sanitary engineering, and while our street sweeping hero tries his best, he just can't avoid making enemies. When he stumbles into the midst of a lively Chinatown tong war, it's Harry's bravery that saves Natalie and wins the day.
Murder at Midnight
Act like Detective Eating Peanuts
event1931 star_border 5.4
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Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
Reformatory
Act like Cook Howard
event1938 star_border 6
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A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
One Shivery Night
Act like Boss
event1950
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Hugh and his partner, Julius are assigned to demolish a old mansion that's rumored to have a fortune hidden inside somewhere. When they arrive, they meet two fortune hunters who try to scare Hugh and Julius away.
Punchy Cowpunchers
Act like General
event1950 star_border 5.3
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It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off to find help. Meanwhile, cavalrymen the Stooges are making life miserable for superior, Sergeant Mullins (Dick Wessel). Mullins tries to whip the boys into shape, but his plan backfire and has a run-in with his superior, Captain Daley (Emil Sitka). Daley informs Mullins about the Dillion clan's evildoings, and needs some men to run them out of town. Mullins does not miss a beat, and volunteers the unsuspecting Stooges.
Mutiny on the Body
Act like Mr. Gibson
event1939
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Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and relaxation.
Good Morning, Eve!
Act like Emperor Nero
event1934 star_border 6
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Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden preparing their latest meal. After the meal, they take a stroll through time. They make a few stops along the way for some musical interludes. These stops include in the Gardens of Emperor Nero of Rome for a concert circa 100 A.D., in King Arthur's court, and at a beach resort in current times.
His Wedding Scare
Act like The Minister
event1943
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El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
Night Editor
Act like Fat Man in Library (Uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.6
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A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
The Iceman's Ball
Act like Officer Schmaltz
event1932 star_border 1
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Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner believes that they are real policemen and they get back the patrol car. Out on the beat, the duo chase women rather than criminals, just like real cops.
The Bride's Mistake
Act like Mr. Grimm
event1931
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A Marjorie Beebe short comedy where she ends up next to lunatic driver Vernon Dent among other weird situations.
Way Out West
event1920
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Way Out West silent comedy
A Close Shave
Act like George Billings
event1929
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An inept window washer becomes an equally inept barber.
Mystic Mush
event1920
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Mystic Mush silent comedy
The Beach Club
Act like Mr. Kronk
event1928
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In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.
The Bicycle Flirt
Act like Henry Harper - The Boyfriend
event1928
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Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother, Henry, puts pressure on his sister to leave Billy, telling her to find a man who is more industrious.
Motorboat Mamas
Act like Charley Whalen
event1928
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Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Smith's Restaurant
Act like Big Diner
event1928
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The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.
Hubby's Weekend Trip
Act like Charley Whalen
event1928
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Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.
Don't Get Jealous
Act like Wilbur Warner
event1929
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Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife, Carmelita, is being unfaithful. Billy, his landlord, offers to take out Carmelita to a cafe and have Wilbur follow them to test his wife's fidelity.
Slippery Silks
Act like Morgan Morgan (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7.1
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The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
Wee Wee Monsieur
Act like Simitz - Arab Chief (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.3
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The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.
Dizzy Doctors
Act like Dr. Harry Arms (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7.2
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The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
Back to the Woods
Act like Governor (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
Hot Stuff
Act like (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 5.5
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The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
Mutts to You
Act like Mr. Stutz, Hotel Manager (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.6
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The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop. They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize what happened, the result is a happy ending.
Plain Clothes
Act like A Crook
event1925 star_border 7
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Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000.
Secret Command
Act like Shipyard Worker (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.8
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Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
Hot Sports
event1929
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Monte and Vernon go to a society party where they behave like jerks. Monte's pants get torn, the butler keeps getting dunked in a punch bowl.
The Bees' Buzz
Act like Jim - Homer's Pal
event1929 star_border 4
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Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
Malice in the Palace
Act like Hassan Ben Sober
event1949 star_border 5.6
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Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
Three Little Sew and Sews
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.4
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The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
Sing a Song of Six Pants
Act like Police Detective
event1947 star_border 5.9
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The three stooges pursue a notorious burglar in order to pay past due notes to the Skin & Flint company and save their tailor shop.
The Extra Girl
Act like Aaron Applejohn
event1923 star_border 5.9
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Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
Tars and Stripes
Act like Chief Gunners Mate Richard Mack
event1935 star_border 4.7
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Naval recruit Elmer is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable for his irascible commanding officer, who winds up getting doused with paint, splattered with muck, and repeatedly tossed into the water due to Elmer's ineptitude. To make matters worse, Elmer takes a shine to the CO's girlfriend, which prompts her jealous boyfriend into several wrathful chases after Elmer. He eventually has Elmer locked in the brig -- but his girlfriend is in there too, so she can be together with her beloved Elmer.
Pardon My Berth Marks
Act like Newspaper City Editor
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Act like Jim, a policeman
event1940 star_border 5.1
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Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
From Nurse to Worse
Act like Dr. D. Lerious (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5
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The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
A Maid Made Mad
Act like Blonde's Boyfriend
event1943
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Andy innocently becomes involved with a female customer; his wife jumps to the wrong conclusion and walks out on him.
Sappy Birthday
Act like Neighbor Policeman
event1942
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Andy and his brother-in-law plan a fishing trip but never get beyond the driveway.
Rip, Sew and Stitch
Act like Detective Sharpe (Archive footage) (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.8
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The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankroll.
Rockin' in the Rockies
Act like Stanton
event1945 star_border 5.7
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Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
Income Tax Sappy
Act like IRS Agent # 1 (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 7.8
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Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors. They become rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the goods on them, and its off to jail for the stooges.
Musty Musketeers
Act like King Cole
event1954 star_border 5.5
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Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
Pals and Gals
Act like Doctor (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5.5
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The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day.
Calling Hubby's Bluff
Act like Vernon Vance
event1929
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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
Pink Pajamas
Act like Vernon Vance
event1929
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Billy treats his marriage vows lightly, and his wife suspects him. Nieghbor Vernon is murderously jealous. Billy sends his wife some silk pajamas to mollify her, but they're sent to Mrs. Dent by mistake. Billy innocently trying to be helpful is almost caught in the wrong apartment, but a card that accompanied the silkies will fall into the wrong hands.
Bedlam in Paradise
Act like I. Fleecem (archive footage)
event1955 star_border 6.5
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Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's plans in an effort to get through the pearly gates.
Knutzy Knights
Act like King Arthur (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.5
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Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only problem is that Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who is plotting to take over the kingdom. The stooges manage to foil the plot and the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
Golf
Act like The suitor
event1922 star_border 5.8
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Comedy on the golf links.
A Prodigal Bridegroom
Act like Gertie's Father in Flashback
event1926 star_border 4
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Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
Masked Mamas
Act like Jim Denton
event1926
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A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.
East of the Water Plug
Act like Jim's Rival - the Villain
event1924
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East of the Water Plug is a silent comedy.
Hurry, Doctor!
Act like Police Officer Bill Trapps
event1925
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Hurry, Doctor! is a 1925 comedy short
Her Actor Friend
Act like Actor in Play
event1926
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Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.
Should Husbands Marry?
Act like Hugh's Boss
event1947 star_border 2
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Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.
Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
Act like George Stevens
event1927
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Should Sleepwalkers Marry? is a 1927 comedy short
Little Robinson Corkscrew
Act like Horace Horlick
event1924
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Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
Flirty Four-Flushers
Act like Bill Brown
event1926 star_border 5
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With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
For Sale, a Bungalow
Act like 2nd Real Estate Broker
event1927
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For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
Cured in the Excitement
Act like Hector Strong
event1927
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Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!
San Antonio Rose
Act like Worthington
event1941 star_border 7
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San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
Dream House
Act like Director Von Schnauble
event1932 star_border 7.4
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A 2 reel short directed by Mack Sennett and starring Bing Crosby.
Tassels in the Air
Act like Building superintendent (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.5
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The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for famous decorator Omay. She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the real Omay shows up.
Half Shot Shooters
Act like Man in Restaurant
event1936 star_border 6.8
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The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
Crash Goes the Hash
Act like Fuller Bull
event1944 star_border 6.6
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Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs in her mansion as a cook and two butlers. The parrot climbing into the turkey scene is a Stooge classic. This was the last of many Stooge appearances by supporting actor Bud Jamison, who passed away in September, 1944, at the age of 50. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Judy Malcolm.
Idle Roomers
Act like Mr. Leander
event1944 star_border 5.6
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The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
Matri-Phony
Act like Emperor Octopus Grabus
event1942 star_border 4.7
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The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
A Bird in the Head
Act like Prof. Panzer
event1946 star_border 5.8
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The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small enough, which leads him to select Curly as the perfect donor.
Three Pests in a Mess
Act like Philip Black
event1945 star_border 6
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The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.
Half-Wits Holiday
Act like Prof. Quackenbush
event1947 star_border 6.7
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A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.
No Dough Boys
Act like Hugo (Nazi spy)
event1944 star_border 7
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The Stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant with their Japanese uniforms on, causing the proprietor to mistake them for the real thing, and a chase ensues. The boys fall through a trap door, and into a nest of Nazi spies where they are mistaken for "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki", three Japanese saboteurs. The Stooges try to act the part, including demonstrating acrobatics and jiu-jitsu to their hosts. When the real "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki" show up, the boys are exposed as impostors, but after a wild fight manage to capture all the Axis spies.
Booby Dupes
Act like Captain
event1945 star_border 4.8
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The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
Beer Barrel Polecats
Act like Warden
event1946 star_border 6.2
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The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.
Heavenly Daze
Act like I. Fleecem
event1948 star_border 6.8
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Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.
Mummy's Dummies
Act like King Rootentooten
event1948 star_border 6.8
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Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom.
Hokus Pokus
Act like Insurance Adjuster
event1949 star_border 6.2
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The Stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair.
Pest Man Wins
Act like Mr. Philander
event1951 star_border 4.5
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The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
Studio Stoops
Act like Police Captain Casey
event1950 star_border 7.3
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The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the stooges must come to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an extending telephone.
Three Arabian Nuts
Act like Mr. Bradley
event1951 star_border 7.5
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The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get the "genius", (as Shemp calls the genie) on their side.
Scrambled Brains
Act like Nora's Father
event1951 star_border 7.3
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Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.
A Missed Fortune
Act like Hotel Manager
event1952 star_border 7.2
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Shemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente where they live it up and wreck their fancy suite. While they wait for the prize money to arrive, the boys are pursued by three gold-digging dames after their winnings. When the check arrives however, it's only for $4.85 after tax deductions.
Booty and the Beast
Act like Night Watchman
event1953 star_border 6.8
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The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
Listen Judge
Act like Judge Henderson
event1952 star_border 6.8
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The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
Isn't Love Cuckoo?
Act like Auto Agency Manager
event1925
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An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged.
Of Cash and Hash
Act like Police Capt. Mullins (archive footage)
event1955 star_border 6.2
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The Stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed and go back to their jobs in a cafe. When one of the robbers comes into the cafe, the boys recognize him and along with their friend Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where the crooks are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the Stooges must rescue her.
Flagpole Jitters
Act like Insurance Adjustor (archive footage)
event1956 star_border 5.5
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The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.
Rumpus in the Harem
Act like Hassan Ben Sober (archive footage)
event1956 star_border 4.8
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Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys need money to pay their fiancée's taxes, or the girls will be sold as slaves. Some crooks come into their restaurant and convince the boys to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond. The stooges decide to return the diamond to the government and get the reward money. They learn that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
Knight Duty
Act like The Cop
event1933
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Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin. Inside, it takes him a while to figure out that he's among dummies. Then, two enterprising jewel thieves arrive to steal the museum director's priceless ruby. Cops are on hand as well: when the ruby goes missing, Harry may be the perfect fall guy. Can Harry stay away from the cops, foil the theft, and behave heroically in front of the museum director's daughter, the same woman whose purse he saved that morning?
Hooks and Jabs
event1933
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Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. After he loses the greenback, the burly saloon keeper confiscates Harry's sandwich and tells him to sweep the floor to pay his tab. In the back room is a boxing ring where the owner stages fights. By happenstance, Harry ends up in the ring. Outside, the temperance union pickets the saloon. Between the beer and the boxing, can Harry stay on his feet and help his crusading friend?
Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
Act like Jim Stone
event1926
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A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The husband is one of the players, and the instructor, not knowing who he is, shows her picture around the table. This prompts a round-table discussion in which none of the standard rules for civility is part of the discussion.
The Best Man
Act like Groom
event1928
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A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
Tied for Life
Act like Angry motorist
event1933 star_border 1
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We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know he's a sweet guy because he sleeps with a photo of his bride. Friends serenade Harry outside, but when he goes to the window to join in they douse him with water. As he prepares for his wedding, he looks in the mirror and it shatters. When the groom attempts to run to the church the ring slips out of his hand and is run over by a passing car. As anyone who has seen Harry's 1924 comedy HIS MARRIAGE WOW can guess, the ring sticks to the tire, and Harry must climb on to the car to retrieve it.....
The Hitchhiker
Act like Adolph
event1933
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Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do, when they learn they are stuck flying with "THE HITCHHIKER"?
The Shadow
Act like Dutch Schultz
event1937 star_border 6.5
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Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to the big top. Egotistical equestrian star Senor Martinet, however, holds $60,000 of notes signed by the Colonel and due in 24 hours. When a mysterious shadowy figure is seen on the circus lot, and Martinet is murdered in the center ring during his performance, there are suspects aplenty, including Vindecco, Martinet's badly abused hunchback assistant.
Nutty But Nice
Act like Dr. Walters (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.4
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The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing with $300,000 worth of bonds.
Cactus Makes Perfect
Act like Heavyset Prospector (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.5
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The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
Sock-a-Bye Baby
Act like 1st Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6
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The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes.
They Stooge to Conga
Act like Hans - the Nazi (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7
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The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
Back from the Front
Act like Lt. Dungen (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7.1
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The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are on a German war ship they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.
I Don't Remember
Act like Oscar Glick
event1935 star_border 2
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Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
The Fainting Lover
Act like Dr. Dudley Schmidt
event1931
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This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, especially at a gathering where Dr. Dudley Smith, accomplished musician, artist, sportsman, lecturer, world traveler, singer, dancer and worker of cross-word puzzles, is putting heavy moves on Helen, Bert's intended. Bert allows as how he'll do something special for her on her birthday coming up next month. The something special ...
Hoboken to Hollywood
Act like Mr. Pinkney
event1926
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Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood office. He is going to drive there with his wife and mother. Along the way, they encounter Mr. Pinkney and his new bride, who too are heading west. Their misadventures together and meeting up with a band of marauding Indians may prevent any of them from reaching their intended destination. If Billy and Mr. Pinkney ever make it to Hollywood, they're both in a for a big surprise.
Special Delivery
event1922
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Al is told to deliver a radiophone message to a certain business man. A gang of wicked looking plotters endeavor to capture him and steal the message. A long chase follows and ends with the safe delivery of the message and the arrest of the thugs.
Beach Pajamas
event1931
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Beach Pajamas is a 1931 Comedy short
Idiots Deluxe
Act like Judge (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.2
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Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax.
Shivering Sherlocks
Act like Police Capt. Mullins
event1948 star_border 5.8
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The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
Busy Buddies
Act like Hotcakes Customer (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.5
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The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. But when they take him to a pasture to practice, Curly doesnt know a cow from a bull!
Higher Than a Kite
Act like Marshall Boering (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.9
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The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command.
An Ache in Every Stake
Act like Poindexter Lawrence (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.2
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The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.
Crazy House
Act like Dr. E.D. Smith (last name spelled 'J-O-N-E-S')
event1930 star_border 4
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Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.
Fiddlesticks
Act like Prof. Von Tempo / Junk dealer
event1927 star_border 6
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Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
Soldier Man
Act like The Prime Minister
event1926
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After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on.
Saturday Afternoon
Act like Steve Smith
event1926 star_border 5.6
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Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend...
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Act like Speaker
event1932 star_border 3
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Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
A Blonde's Revenge
Act like Tim Hayes
event1926 star_border 1
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Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.
The Sheepish Wolf
event1948
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Harry entertains a potential advertising client.
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
event1948
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Wally intends to have a nice quiet day at home, until his brother-in-law Eddie shows up with his kids.
Dragnet Patrol
Act like Cookie
event1931 star_border 5.2
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A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
The Freshman's Finish
event1931
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At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?
A Doggone Mixup
Act like Mr. Tilson
event1938
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Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
Sappy Pappy
Act like Jealous Husband
event1942
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Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
The Hollywood Kid
Act like Claude Climax - Director
event1924 star_border 5.3
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A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
Midnight Daddies
Act like Baron von Twiddlebaum - Designer
event1930
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Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
A College Racket
event1931
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Some college students attend a nightclub, "The Pirate's Den", that the Dean of the college has declared off-limits to students. They start to wreck it in their playful mood when another student arrives disguised as the Dean, and they all vacate the premises. The student tells the proprietor that if he will returns the I.O.U.s signed by a student, he will see to it that the students visit his place every night. He, of course, is the student who signed the tab. But the real Dean then shows up.
Please
Act like Elmer Smoot
event1933
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Two dueling suitors vie for the heart of the town’s beautiful music teacher. Features Songs: “Please”, “You’re Getting To be A Habit With Me” and “I Don’t Stand A Ghost of a Chance”.
Adventure in Washington
Act like Senator in gym
event1941 star_border 6.5
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A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
Dutiful But Dumb
Act like Mr. Wilson (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.2
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The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. Features the famous scene where Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
Smith's Army Life
Act like The Colonel
event1928
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19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
Guns a Poppin!
Act like Judge (archive footage)
event1957 star_border 4
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Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and relaxation. After a marauding bear ruined the peace and quiet, their cabin became the scene of a shoot-out between the sheriff and an escaped outlaw. The boys captured the bad guy, and the reward would have paid Moe's debts, but the crook escaped and Moe went after Larry and Joe with an ax.
The Old Barn
Act like Pete Monroe - Hotel Proprietor
event1929 star_border 8
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The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.
The All-American Kickback
Act like Football Coach
event1931
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Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
The Pride of Pikeville
Act like The Train Conductor
event1927
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Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
Saved by the Belle
Act like Mike (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5
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The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram instructing them to "get rid of present wardrobe" and an official thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a firing squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are spared when Rita arrives with the real plans.
A Ducking They Did Go
Act like Vegetarian (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.3
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The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Act like Sheriff (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
Even as IOU
Act like Motorist (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.2
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A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
Act like Senator (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.7
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The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit.
Pardon My Terror
Act like Jonas Morton
event1946
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Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
Out West
Act like Doctor (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
Black Oxfords
Act like Sandy Haig
event1924 star_border 5
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In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
His Marriage Wow
Act like A Pessimist - Professor McGlumm
event1925 star_border 5.5
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In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed.
A Sea Dog's Tale
Act like Jo Jo
event1926
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An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.
Three Smart Saps
Act like (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.2
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The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The stooges sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the stooges are able to get married and all ends well.
Bachelor Daze
Act like Onlooker in doorway
event1944
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Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the local battle axe played by Minerva Urecal has a crush on him but Slim lacks the nerve to ask her to marry him.
Hail the Woman
Act like Joe Hurd
event1921
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Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her from his house. Her brother David, a pusillanimous reprobate, has secretly married and fathered, then abandoned, a child. Judith takes care of the child and finds a way to restore her family through the love for the babe.
Easy Living
Act like First Partner (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7
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J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Act like Gasoline Customer
event1925
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An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
Bull and Sand
Act like Joe Archer
event1924
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Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's daughter. To win her heart, he accepts to fight bulls at the bullfighting school. But the princess is also courted by Manuel Risotto, a famous toreador who kidnaps her. The King chases after him in a car driven by Adonis. Unfortunately, the chauffeur lets Risotto run away. In a rage, the King condemns Adonis to the death penalty. But it is without counting a scientist who has invented a rocket, his assistant who falls down in the yard of Adonis's prison, a great escape featuring Adonis and the assistant disguised as bulls, a second abduction of the Princess - but, this time for the just cause of love -, a wild chase and a final flight to another planet!
Soul of the Beast
Act like The Boob
event1923 star_border 6
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This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
An Auto Nut
Act like The Lawyer's Clerk alias the Doctor (uncredited)
event1919 star_border 5
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A crooked lawyer sells his car.
The Awful Sleuth
Act like Al Keefer
event1951
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Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on, smiling Memphis Mike.
The Big Flash
Act like Klaus
event1932 star_border 4.5
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Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at the scene of an expected robbery. But before they can get the pictures they want, they must first distract a policeman whose presence would otherwise deter the gangster from appearing.
Clunked on the Corner
Act like Jip Bennett
event1929
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Johnny Burke stumbles into a beautiful crook, played by Carmelita Geraghty, who used him to steal a pearl necklace.
Thanks for the Memory
Act like Refuse Man (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Picking Peaches
Act like The Store Manager
event1924 star_border 4.2
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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...
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Act like Fat Man at Party (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.6
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Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Dangerous Business
Act like Fat Man (uncredited)
event1946
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Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.
Hot Dogs
event1920 star_border 5
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Born in Russia, vaudeville acrobat Hank Mann acrobat accustomed without efforts towards American film comedy to become a star comic for several studios. Like Ben Turpin, his trademark was a brush moustache, too large, even for comedy standards.
Start Cheering
Act like Pops
event1938 star_border 7
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After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Only Angels Have Wings
Act like Ship's Captain
event1939 star_border 7.3
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A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Stanley and Livingstone
Act like Newspaperman in Office
event1939 star_border 6.4
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When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Senate Reporter (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Tired Feet
event1933
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Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.
Sue My Lawyer
Act like Judge
event1938
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Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
The Gum Riot
event1920
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The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid the keen eye of an officer of the law, holds a bottle of liquor so that its contents drop into a vat in which the gum is being prepared. It is when the gum is finished and ready to chew that the riot starts.
Wall Street Blues
Act like Mal A. Mute - the Loan Shark's Partner
event1924
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A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
Act like Watkins
event1941
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Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments to revive the dead.
Broken Bubbles
event1920
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A poor chap, with only fifty cents, hesitates whether to buy a meal with it or visit a fortune teller. He chooses the latter, and gazing into a crystal globe, he is told to follow the horses. He is then shown working around a racing stable, and, of course, rides the heroine's horse to victory. That night they decide to celebrate in a cabaret, where several amusing complications ensue.
The Lion and the Souse
Act like Mr. Niblick Van Hoosit
event1924
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A high-society woman films a vanity film of her dancing with a group of women. The premiere takes an hilariously disastrous turn when a lion gets loose.
Waiting in the Lurch
Act like J. Peabody Knott
event1949
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Joe's fiance doesn't like his obsession for chasing fire engines.
The Fire Chaser
Act like J. Peabody Knott
event1954
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Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddinging nurse. He's a bridegroom who misses his own wedding because he can't stop chasing fire trucks. Fiancee Mae breaks up with him to marry milksop Wilber at her father's insistence. But Eric's butler Simmons is determined to help true love, and arranges for Eric to crash the wedding and win Mae back.
Bride and Gloom
Act like Sally's Father (uncredited)
event1947
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In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
The Good Bad Egg
Act like Rest Home Manager (uncredited)
event1947
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In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.
Money Squawks
Act like Night Watchman
event1940
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Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
Mr. Noisy
Act like Slim - Baseball Spectator
event1946
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This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
Society Mugs
Act like Lord Wafflebottom
event1946
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Muriel Allen needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places a telephone call to Acme Exterminators instead of Acme Escorts. It's Shemp and Tom to the rescue, and they're assumed to be cultured college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.
Home on the Rage
Act like Mr. Lent (uncredited)
event1938
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Andy mistakenly believes his wife and brother-in-law are conspiring to murder him for insurance.
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Act like Hotel Doorman
event1940 star_border 6.3
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Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Cold Turkey
Act like J.T. Caldwell
event1940
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Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
Nothing But Pleasure
Act like Bus Rider with Child
event1940 star_border 5.8
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To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
The Taming of the Snood
Act like Man on Street
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.
The Heckler
Act like Baseball Spectator with Hotdog
event1940 star_border 5
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An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Three Little Pirates
Act like Governor
event1946 star_border 6.9
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The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife throwing contest with Larry as the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts the rope that holds the chandelier and it crashes down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to take over as ruler of the island.
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
Act like (archive footage)
event2006
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A documentary short included as an extra with "The Buster Keaton Collection".
Squareheads of the Round Table
Act like King Arthur
event1948 star_border 6.7
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Set in Arthurian times, the Stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Act like Guard (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.3
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A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
The Glass Key
Act like Bartender Serving Beers (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.6
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A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
You Can't Take It with You
Act like Expressman (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.5
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Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Innocently Guilty
Act like Mr. Bass
event1950
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Through a series of misunderstandings, Bert becomes innocently involved with his boss' wife.
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Act like Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 5.5
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An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Lucky Stars
Act like Hiram Healy
event1925 star_border 7
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Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
His Marriage Mix-up
event1935
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Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess.
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Act like William Ruff
event1943
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Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
Defective Detectives
Act like Rodney Boodle
event1944
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El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him.
Snooper Service
event1945
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Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.
Having Wonderful Crime
Act like Hotel Guest (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.3
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Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Romeo and Juliet
Act like Billy Durham
event1924
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A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Act like Lustig
event1939 star_border 4.3
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Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
The Golf Nut
Act like The Club President
event1927
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Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach who he considers some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. That havoc is compounded whenever he deals with sand traps, water traps or especially flying insects with stingers.
The Sea of Grass
Act like Train Conductor (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
A Blitz on the Fritz
Act like Spy chief
event1943
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Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.
Artist's Muddles
Act like Luckenbach, the artist
event1933 star_border 1
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Andy "Sunshine" Wilson, a happy-go-lucky vagabond, catches a ride with motorist Luckenbach who is on a suicide mission, and nearly succeeds in his mission. Luckenbach is a great portrait artist suffering under the slight handicap of being unable to "do ears." The artist has painted a beautiful portrait of the wife of Pietro Cellini with the exception that her left ear is several times larger than it should be and not painted very well at that. Cellini also holds the keys to the city and Luckenbach getting the job of painting the city hall rides on Cellini's satisfaction with his wife's portrait. Andy accompanies the artist back to his studio, and this short being made in the pre-code days ensures the studio is filled with models wearing a little less than somewhat and less than that in a couple of cases.
To Heir Is Human
Act like Board Chairman
event1944
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Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.
House of Errors
Act like White
event1942
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Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Act like Man Outside Phone Booth (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
His First Flame
Act like Amos McCarthy
event1927 star_border 5.5
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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.
It Had to Be You
Act like Man in Drugstore (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.5
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A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
San Diego I Love You
Act like Mr. Fitzmaurice (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.3
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A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
He Stayed for Breakfast
Act like Chef
event1940
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Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
The Lady in Question
Act like Gendarme (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.6
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When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
There He Goes
Act like Jerry the Bull
event1925
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1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.
Riders of the Purple Cows
Act like Mike Maverick
event1924
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When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
When Spirits Move
event1920
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A 1920 Silent comedy
Juvenile Court
Act like Mr. Schultz (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
The Tooth Will Out
Act like Dr. Keefer--professor of dentistry
event1951 star_border 5.7
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The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys must leave on the run.
Lone Star Moonlight
Act like Sheriff
event1946
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Returning G.I. Curt Norton (Ken Curtis), owner of a radio station, finds his father Amos (Guy Kibbee) has allowed the station to run down and has squandered Curt's money in bad investments in war-surplus material. Eddie Jackson (Robert Kellard), who owns the rival station, is also attracted to Curt's sweetheart Jean White (Joan Barton). When Curt and the Hoosier Hotshots successfully stage an auction to raise money, Eddie hires Mimi Carston (Claudia Drake) to claim that Curt married her in France.
Hollywood Trouble
Act like Mr. Mahoney
event1935
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An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
Fiddlers Three
Act like King Cole
event1948 star_border 6.4
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The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
I'll Never Heil Again
Act like Mr. Ixnay (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7
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The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The Stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the Stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.
How High Is Up?
Act like Mr. Blake (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.
San Francisco
Act like Fat Man (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.6
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A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Texas Cyclone
Act like Hefty
event1932 star_border 4.2
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When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's wife, Helen, is about to lose her ranch to Becker, so he decides to stay and pose as Rawlins in an effort to help her.
Share the Wealth
Act like Mayor
event1936 star_border 3
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A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trouble when he's the recipient of $50,000.
Remember When?
Act like Mack - Circus Owner
event1925 star_border 7
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Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
Murder in Greenwich Village
Act like Ship's Officer
event1937 star_border 6.3
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A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Act like Football Opponent
event1924
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Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
Girls Will Be Boys
event1931
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A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in the hospital, sadder and sicker as a result of their experience.
Million Dollar Legs
Act like Secretary of Agriculture (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.6
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A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Gents of Leisure
event1931
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Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates to an all out train chase in the best slapstick fashion.
Time Out for Trouble
Act like Bakery Man
event1938 star_border 3
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Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement.
The Mind Needer
Act like Mr. Ryan
event1938 star_border 4
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A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his wedding anniversary. Will he give his wife a present and avoid her wrath?
His Unlucky Night
Act like Homer Brown
event1928
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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.
What a Trip
event1929
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Vernon Dent out fishing.
Howling Hollywood
event1929
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A Hollywood satire in slapstick.
Smith's Cook
Act like Pete - the Motor Cop
event1927
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The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get married. But when Mr Smith and his family set out to drive her across town to her bridegroom, everything goes wrong.
Smith's Landlord
Act like The Cop
event1926
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Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate member of the Smith family, has a starring role in this episode, digging up the garden and stealing the landlord's hat.
True to Life
Act like Man (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6
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A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
A Star Is Shorn
Act like Producer
event1939
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Danny Webb plays wanna-be Hollywood agent, Speedy Williams, while Mary Treen plays Patsy, the best friend of Hazel Hackenschmitt (Ethelreda Leopold). Having just won the hometown title of "Miss Maple Syrup", Hazel decides to move to Hollywood to be a star. Speedy cooks up a scheme to get her seen by important Hollywood producer, B.O. Botswaddle (Raymond Brown) who is known to never make a move without Astrological guidance. This scheme involves making up Patsy with turban and a 3rd Eye, and introducing her to Botswaddle as a mystical seer... one, of course, who see's Hazel as the star of his next motion picture. Naturally, things do not go as planned. Treen is especially memorable in a wonderfully goofy role.
The Golden Age of Comedy
Act like archive footage
event1957 star_border 6.9
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A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Address Unknown
Act like Nazi Party Member (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.3
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When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
The Good Humor Man
Act like Man in Park (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6
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Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Manhattan Melodrama
Act like Otto (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7
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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
The Riding Tornado
Act like Hefty - Bartender
event1932
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Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent fights with Stark and Stark quits and goes to work for Engle. Rustlers are stealing horses. Carson suspects Olcott and Olcott suspects Carson. Sheriff prevents war between them. Torrent stops wild horse stampede. Starks spills beans on Engle. Torrent kills Engle and wins Patsy Olcott.
Daring Danger
Act like Bartender Pee Wee
event1932
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A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
Mendelssohn's Wedding March
Act like The Baron (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 1
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This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".
The Nickel Snatcher
event1920
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Hank Mann is the conductor of a horse-drawn trolley that carries a motley assortment of passengers to the beach at Venice in California, where the plot becomes involved with a bank robbery.
All Night Long
Act like the Rival
event1924 star_border 7.5
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Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.
Boobs in the Wood
Act like Il rivale - Big Bill Reardon
event1925 star_border 6.7
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Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress. Bill tries to eliminate Chester, so he and Hazel head down the mountain for other work. She waits tables and gets him a job as a dishwasher. He spills kerosene in the soup and then must serve it to an angry customer. Hazel tells a couple of tall tales about Chester, and soon all the customers, the owner, and the cook, think he's a desperado. They make him the saloon bouncer. Some trick shooting seals his reputation. Then Big Bill arrives for a showdown.
J-U-N-K
Act like The Junk Dealer
event1920
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A Hank Mann slapstick comedy where he plays a Junk Dealer's Helper.
Teacher's Pest
Act like Christmas Tree Buyer
event1939
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Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
His Bridal Fright
Act like Doorman
event1940
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Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
A Harem Hero
Act like Oriental Potentate
event1920
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A Hank Mann Arrow comedy.
Calling All Doctors
Act like Sneezing Man
event1937
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Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
Many Sappy Returns
Act like Concerned Pedestrian
event1938 star_border 4.8
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Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
A One Mama Man
Act like The Suitor
event1927
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Charley Chase on a boat with girls.
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Act like Bank Clerk (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.8
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When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Hollywood Halfbacks
event1931
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Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
The Campus Carmen
Act like Extra
event1928 star_border 4
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A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
I Love Lucy
Act like Santa Claus (uncredited) (2 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7.9
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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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