Alice Howell

Birth : 1888-05-05,

Death : 1961-04-12

History

"The scream of the screen". One reviewer likened her to a "sort of Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Max Linder." All this was compressed into "one more or less diminutive package of femininity". Sometimes called "the girl Charlie Chaplin", she worked for Mack Sennett and later L-KO Kompany. Her early comedies were often produced by Universal Pictures.

Profile

Alice Howell

Movies

The Pride of the Force
The Girl
The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film
Under a Spell
When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of things.
That's the Spirit
Mrs. Green
Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.
One Wet Night
Nervy Ned's Wife
It's raining heavily, but at first the young husband and wife are not concerned about it. But the husband gets soaked on the way home from work, and then finds that the butler has left all of his suits hanging outside in the rain. Next, when some friends come to visit, they find that their troubles with water are just beginning.
A Convict’s Happy Bride
Alice and Phil's happy home is disrupted when their furniture is being repossessed by a huge bullying workman. To placate him, they try being nice and inviting him to dine with them, but fighting breaks out and the bully pretends to be murdered when a cop shows up, and Phil is sent to jail.
Cinderella Cinders
Cinderella
Alice Howell plays a working girl who breaks into society through no fault of her own when asked to pose as royalty at a posh party. Spiked punch adds to the hilarity of the proceedings. A silent film inspired by the character of Cinderella, but with the contemporary setting.
Her Lucky Day
Alice Howell comedy short
His Wooden Legacy
A woman played by Alice Howell receives an inheritance from her grandfather of his wooden leg.
Distilled Love
The Milkmaid
Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
In Dutch
Hulda from Holland
Comedy short starring Alice Howell
Neptune's Naughty Daughter
A Century Film comedy short.
Pirates of the Air
The Head Waitress
The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress discovered the workshop where the proprietor was having the model duplicated and she was bribed not to say anything about what she saw. She started out with the bribe money to buy some gewgaws for herself, but she got in the road of a passing auto. Unfortunately, the auto contained the young Secret Service agent.
How Stars are Made
Lillian Russell
Comedy short starring Alice Howell
Under New Management
The Boss’s Wife
Web of office romance entanglements lead to slapstick hijinks at a fly paper company.
Silk Hose and High Pressure
Alice
It all starts when the actress-wife gives a midnight party to her former associates and Bill and Mr. Jowlish try to horn in on the revelry...
Father was a Loafer
The Deserted Wife
A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets, who chases him down and exacts comic justice.
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Woman (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Back Room Diner / Party Guest (uncredited)
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country, after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie's father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Cursed by His Beauty
The Iceman's Wife
Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
Shot in the Excitement
The Daughter
Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
He Loved the Ladies
The Diner
Bombs and Bangs
Bombs and Bangs is a 1914 Comedy short.
Lover's Luck
Leader of Snoopy Neighbors
A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
A Coat's Tale
The Great Toe Mystery
The Wife (uncredited)
A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
Laughing Gas
Dentist's wife
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
Mabel's Married Life
Neighbor (uncredited)
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Mabel's Busy Day
Spectator (uncredited)
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
The Knockout
Spectator / Party Guest (uncredited)
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Caught in the Rain
Hotel Guest
When a married couple become separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and she sleepwalks into his room so that when her husband returns from his walk he must go out again to look for her. Charlie returns the lady to her room but must climb out onto the window ledge in a downpour.
Caught in a Cabaret
Party Guest (uncredited)
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.