Frank Cooley

Movies

Honor Bound
Dr. Ritchie
When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.
The First Year
Mr. Livingston
One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous dinner that a couple of newlyweds organise for an important financial partner of the husband's.
A Joke on Jane
The Slugger
The roots of modern television situatuation comedy can be seen in this Beauty brand film. As American grew the Beauty brand was developed to feature actress Margarita Fisher. Her husband, Haryy Pollard, directed the Beauty films and occasionally acted in them. He plays the husband in this one.
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
The Tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and causes some misunderstandings between Mabel and her lover.
Won in a Closet
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
A Flirt's Mistake
1st Flirt in Park (uncredited)
When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.
Fatty's Flirtation
Desk Sergeant
Fatty's Flirtation is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.