Alice Lake
Nacimiento : 1895-09-12, Brooklyn - New York City - New York - USA
Muerte : 1967-11-15
Historia
Lake was an American film actress. She began her career during the silent film era and often appeared in comedy shorts opposite Roscoe Arbuckle. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lake began her career as a dancer. She made her screen debut in 1912, and she appeared in a number of comedy shorts by Mack Sennett. Lake was often the leading lady of Roscoe Arbuckle in comedies like Oh Doctor! (1917) and The Cook (1918). Arbuckle directed both films and was joined by Buster Keaton who had a leading role in Oh Doctor.
Lake also played dramatic roles with Bert Lytell in Blackie's Redemption and The Lion's Den, both from 1919. During the 1920s she appeared in a number of Metro silent film features as the lead actress. At the height of her career she earned $1,200 per week as a motion picture actress.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Alice Lake has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1620 Vine Street.
Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and more.
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
En plena fiebre del oro en San Francisco, un hombre llamado Bat Morgan acaba con la vida de un criminal que atemorizaba a toda la región. Gracias a su acción comienza a ganar importantes cuotas de poder dentro, aunque lo que verdaderamente le interesa es el amor por la joven Jean.
Townswoman (uncredited)
En Toyland vive la pareja formada por Stannie Dum y Ollie Dee. Los dos se encuentran hospedados en la casa de Madre Peep y trabajan en una fábrica de juguetes. En dicho fantástico país el malvado y siniestro Silas Barnaby corteja a la hija de la anciana señora Peep, aunque ella se niega a acceder a sus deseos de matrimonio, puesto que su corazón está entregado a un joven de su entorno. Debido a esta negativa, Barnaby pone en práctica un método de presión…
Lucy Warmack (uncredited)
Alguien está asesinando a los jugadores de los Cardinals de St. Louis. Ahora el pitcher del equipo es la próxima víctima (y de hecho ya ha sufrido dos atentados).
Paige's Manicurist (uncredited)
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Secretary
Linda, una corista que aspira a triunfar, se enamora de Victor, un compositor de éxito. Ambos se casan y tienen un hijo, pero ella pronto empieza a sentirse atraída por el joven y atractivo bailarín Lorenzo Valenti.
Audience Member
Una estrella del vodevil anima a su hija a convertirse en una estrella del baile. Egoísmo, engaños y chantaje separan a madre e hija, pero al final se reconcilian.
Maizie
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
Prisoner
La perdición –y maldad de su título– de Margot Rande no es otra que su díscolo hijo. Cuando el muchacho atraca un banco, la madre le protege disparando accidentalmente a un policía. Condenada a veinte años de prisión, la mujer es sometida a todo tipo de vejaciones por culpa de guardianas sin escrúpulos. Un abogado intentará reducir su condena, pero las cosas se complican cuando ella tiene un niño mientras está entre rejas.
Comedy about a man who, reluctantly, spends an evening with his wife at home rather then going out drinking with his friend. When that friend later mistakes the wife for the girl he's been carousing with, it all gets a bit messy.
Sideshow Dancer (uncredited)
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
Lucy Bishop
Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland is accused of the crime.
Belle
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
Goldie
Babe Scott, una bailarina de cabaret que busca constantemente material sensacional para sorprender a sus clientes, concibe burlas a una chica del Ejército de Salvación y asiste a las reuniones de la misión en el East Side por la atmósfera. Allí conoce a Jerry Wilson, un conductor de camión honesto y amigo del capitán del ejército. Aunque el acto es un éxito, Babe se desilusiona al encontrar a Lonnie, una compañera de trabajo que ha estado enamorando con ella, robando su dinero y haciéndole propuestas a Big Bertha, la dura anfitriona del club.
The Wife
Violet Colton
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful Olive Borden.
Rosa Montez
The Virgin (1924)
'Poppy' Marie Andrews
Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake star in this drama taken from the Saturday Evening Post story by Calvin Johnston.
Lillian Piggott
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
Jewel Marchmont
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.
Bubbles Revere
The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
Herself - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Joan Cameron
Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love with schoolteacher Joan Cameron when he saves her from an attack by Fu Chang.
Jean Oliver
When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
Lucretia Eastman
After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse and turns to Arctic explorer Frank, who has long loved her and promised to come back to her whenever she needs his help.
Meta Maxon
A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns to her home feeling sullied and ashamed. A young man who had once sought her hand returns from years away in Europe and reiterates his suit.
Norah Blake
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm, the manager of a musical review, has promised payment for his girls' lavish costumes as soon as the show makes money. To the dismay of Norah Blake, Lombardi's faithful assistant, who loves him, Lombardi proposes to Phyllis Manning, one of the showgirls, and presents her with his finest creations, while not even attempting to kiss her, as she puts off setting a wedding date and also accepts the attentions of wealthy bachelor Bob Tarrant.
A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
Felicia Bocaz
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company, notices a pretty girl smiling at him in the station. Since her train soon leaves, all Jimmy learns about her is information on her luggage: her initials and destination, the Central American republic Santo Dinero.
Dorothy stedman
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy grocer in the process.
The Neighbor's Wife
Comedy Short
Camping Out is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Fatty is the suffering spouse who comes home every night to an empty house and a neglectful wife. His wife is furious when she discovers Fatty is cheating on her with a neglected wife.
Waitress / Cashier (uncredited)
En un intento de mejorar la eficiencia, el chef de un restaurante de lujo en la costa y su asistente causan estragos en el establecimiento. Además a estas complicaciones se añade la llegada de un ladrón.
Crazy Woman
La esposa de Roscoe lee de una operación que cura el alcoholismo y hace planes para comprobarlo con el cirujano de No Hope Sanitarium. Roscoe eventualmente se viste como enfermera para poderse escapar.
Moonshiner's Daughter
Una pelea entre los Owens y los Gillettes termina cuando el último Gillette restante es asesinado, pero un nuevo problema entra en erupción para la gente de la montaña con la llegada de un agente de hacienda de Estados Unidos y su ayudante.
Cutie Cuticle, manicurist
En el Hotel Elk's Head los botones atormentan el vestíbulo, el uno al otro y los huéspedes. El ascensor es impulsado por un caballo obstinado. Un robo fingido se convierte en uno real. Y hay una persecución en un carro fuera de control.
Salvation Army Woman
La historia involucra a Arbuckle que viene a la ciudad occidental de Mad Dog Gulch (que los intertítulos llaman "la ciudad más dura en las películas") después de ser tirado de un tren y perseguido por los indios. Él se une a Bill Bullhum (Keaton), el dueño del salón de baile, tratando de mantener al malvado Wild Bill Hickup (Al St. John) lejos de Salvation Sue (Alice Lake). Fatty y Buster tienen una serie de aventuras tratando de vencer a St. John, hasta que descubren su una debilidad: sus cosquillas.
Schoolteacher
Fatty plays a village blacksmith in “Jazzville,” an imaginary rural village. There is a rivalry between Fatty and Cy Klone, the garage owner, over the affections of a pretty schoolteacher. A city chap unites the two rivals when he tries to steal the girl. An annual village ball features amateur talent in vaudeville stunts with Keaton as a wriggling Fatima who charms a long black stocking from a cigar box like a snake. The film is presumed lost.
Girl at Vanity Table (uncredited)
Arbuckle escapa de la vigilancia de su dominante esposa y se dirige a Coney Island. Keaton llega ese mismo día con su atractiva, y bastante fácil novia, que le es robada inmediatamente por St. John.
Maid
Roscoe es un médico que se enamora de una mujer bonita cuyo novio, a su vez, se enamora de las joyas de la esposa de Roscoe.
Perfume customer
Al y Roscoe, empleados de una gasolinera, son rivales por Alice. Cuando Buster entrega un vestido de novia para Alice y comienza a probarlo, es confundido con Alice y secuestrado por Al.
Mrs. Rough
Roscoe, su esposa y su suegra dirigen un balneario. Buster interpreta a un jardinero que apaga un incendio iniciado por Roscoe, luego un mensajero que pelea con el cocinero St. John, luego con un policía.
Velma Gay
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar.
The Pretty Girl in the Park
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.
Un carnicero de una tienda de ultramarinos se enamora de la hija del propietario. Cuando el propietario se da cuenta manda a la joven a un internado. Para verla, el chico hará de todo, incluso hacerse pasar por mujer.
A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lovers. Lake is a pretty good stand-in for Mabel, but the husky young man who is supposed to be Arbuckle is pretty much of a nullity. Al is a money-hungry villain, up to no good and achieving no good end.
A Creampuff Romance is a 1916 Comedy short.
A Fair Customer
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her parents want to teach her a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.
