Daphne Pollard

Daphne Pollard

Birth : 1891-10-19,

Death : 1978-02-22

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Daphne Pollard

Movies

The Golden Age of Comedy
archive footage
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Kid Dynamite
Mrs. McGinnis
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
Tillie the Toiler
Mumsy
While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend, she continually throws him over for handsomer men.
Our Relations
Mrs. Daphne Hardy
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
Bonnie Scotland
Millie the Maid
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Thicker Than Water
Mrs. Daphne Hardy
Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money to Stanley, who used it instead to pay Mrs. Hardy for his room and board. At Stan's suggestion Ollie then withdraws the couple's savings from the bank to pay for the furniture and inadvertently pays virtually the whole amount at an auction for a grandfather clock which is soon crushed under a passing truck. Mrs Hardy then unintentionally causes serious injuries to Ollie requiring him to be rushed to hospital for a blood transfusion. The doctor conscripts Stan to be the unwilling blood donor. Problems occur with the transfusion and when Stan and Ollie leave the hospital they appear to have morphed into each other.
His First Flame
Emmy
After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him.
A Peach of a Pair
Cook
Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
Smoked Hams
Emma Pollard
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
She Whoops To Conquer
Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.
Hawkins & Watkins Inc.
Beatrice De Vere (Daphne Pollard), a wealthy eccentric, owns a fabulous diamond that is coveted by others. Thusly begins a slapstick farce that involves two dumb New York cops, with cockney accents, a menacing butler who also tells fortunes, and a gorilla who drives a motorcycle and pilots an airplane.
The Lady Refuses
Millie
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
Help Wanted, Female
A new housekeeper, her son, and two not-too-bright burglars wreak havoc at a doctor's office.
Breakfast in Bed
Hilda
A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the same time, romantic complications ensue.
Bright Lights
Mame Avery
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
What a Widow!
Masseuse
A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
Swing High
Mrs. May
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
Bulls and Bears
Gertrude Martin
Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
Sugar Plum Papa
The New Mrs. Martin
Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
Loose Ankles
Agnes
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives and without scandal. Otherwise the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
Big Time
Sybil
The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.
Matchmaking Mamma
Mrs. Cornelius McNitt
This marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. He is panty-whipped by his social climbing second wife. She has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, and to nab Larry Lodge, the pageant's leading man, as a husband for her flighty daughter Phyllis, the pageant's leading lady. Larry ends up only having eyes for Sally McNitt, Mr. McNitt's visiting daughter, and she, in turn has eyes for him.
The Old Barn
The School Teacher
The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.
The Sky Hawk
Minnie
Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.
The Campus Vamp
Dora
Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?
The Campus Carmen
Tillie Toober
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
Smith's Restaurant
The Waitress
The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.
The Girl from Nowhere
Tillie Tucker - Wardrobe Mistress
The Girl from Nowhere is a comedy short
The Swim Princess
Sally Forthe
The Swim Princess is a silent comedy short.
Love at First Flight
Polly Polka - Dance Instructor
Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.
Run, Girl, Run
Coach Minnie Marmon
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
The Girl from Everywhere
Minnie Stitch
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.