Billy Gilbert

After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.

The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.

Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.

Part of a short-lived "Izzie and Lizzie" series named after the male and female ingénues in two comically contrasted families living next door to one another, this slapstick adventure finds Lizzie Murphy (Bess True) "going Hollywood." Having won a beauty contest, she's invited to travel west for a film test. Both Izzie Cohen and the Murphy menfolk are soon in hot pursuit, having belatedly realized that (according to a lurid tell-all book) Tinsel Town is the ruin of many a virtuous maiden. When they arrive, Lizzie is already starring in a movie and the wide-eyed family folk are fast wreaking havoc on the lot at "Paramet Studio."

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.

For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short

The Smith's visit San Francisco to attend a horse show only to have their precocious daughter cause some minor comical mishaps and their over-sized canine refusing to obey commands.

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

Twelfth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family gos fishing while their house is renovated.

Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.

A small town princess gets hired for the movies.

To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.

With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.

The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.

Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.

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.

Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.

Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.

Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde are hobos who happen upon a train and are hired as cooks.

A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.

Bud Duncan comedy produced by Schiller and distributed by Reelcraft.

A slapstick comedy featuring Bud Duncan & Billy Gilbert.

Betty, a blind girl, is the sole "witness" to the murder of a mine owner and whose mistaken testimony convicts Sid Allen her own benefactor. Years later, the adult Betty returns to the mining town, her sight restored. Fearing that she may remember the truth, the real murderer, "Bull" Snide has the girl kidnapped.

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.

After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.

Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.

A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.

Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.

A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.

When a rich 'mothball magnate' checks into a hotel with his family, the mashers come out of the woodwork to woo his daughter (Fatty Arbuckle.) The scene shifts to the beach where the buxom heiress becomes stranded on a rock, where she is sunbathing, when the tide comes in. An hilarious rescue effort ensues.

Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.

Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.

Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.

After arriving in a hostile Western town, Hogan meets the Wild West head-on. A shack loaded with dynamite aids his return to urbanity. "Plenty of western color helps to make the production an attractive one apart from its comic attributes. In this film Charles Murray as Hogan is his usual comical self." -The Moving Picture World, March 13, 1915.

Fatty es un vagabundo inofensivo. Cuando entra en el bar de Ambrose Schnitz con la idea de almorzar gratis y de beber algo de aguardiente sin pagar, el señor Schnitz lo echa. Alguien ha estado volando por los aires las tabernas de las personas que tratan mal a las personas sin recursos, por lo que los clientes de Schnitz le juegan una mala pasada, dejándole una nota anónima en la que le dicen que el lugar va a explotar a las 3 de la tarde. Schnitz cree que Fatty es el culpable, por lo que cuando lo ve aparecer cuando faltan pocos minutos para las tres, provisto de un queso de bola, cree que está armado con una bomba y huye despavorido del local, en busca de la policía. Fatty no sabe qué ha pasado, pero ahora tiene la barra entera para él..

After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. The Keystone Kops are also after Walrus.

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.

After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.

Situada en la Edad de Piedra, el Rey Low-Brow gobierna el lugar y tiene un harén de esposas. Weakchin (Chaplin) llega al lugar (donde cada hombre tiene un centenar de esposas) y se enamora de la esposa favorita del rey. Charlot pelea con el rey y lo arroja por un acantilado. Como se lo presume muerto, Charlot se corona rey y comienza a disfrutar de su favorita con todo el harén a sus pies.

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.

Charlot es un timador de ciudad que induce a Tillie a robar los ahorros de su padre y huya con él. Una vez ha llegado a la ciudad, Charlot se apropia del dinero y vuelve junto a Mabel, su primer amor y pareja del delito. Esta considerado como el primer largometraje del genero de comedia de la historia.

Charlot y su amigo Ambrose se encuentran en el restaurante, y accidentalmente cada uno se lleva el abrigo del otro

A Charlot y su compañero le encomiendan entregar un piano y retirar otro. Confunden las direcciones y tratan de ejecutar la tarea aún contra la voluntad de los propietarios hasta que, finalmente, el piano cae por una ventana a la calle.

Mabel y su novio van al autodromo y Charlot toma su lugar para ingresar sin pagar en tanto el novio y un amigo de Charlot son expulsados por un policía.

Charlot y su rival Joseph compiten por los favores de la dueña de casa. Luego ambos están en el parque y Joseph parece tener éxito con una joven. Por su parte Charlot pone su empeño en otra pero resulta que espera a su galán y, apenado, quiere arrojarse al agua pero un policía se impide. Más tarde encuentra a las dos jóvenes con Joseph, nuevo alboroto, las bellas se refugian en un cine y Charlot se les une, pero se produce un nuevo alboroto dentro del cine.

Dos borrachos, para escapar de los reproches de sus esposas, entran en un restaurante y la montan. Sus cónyuges, sin embargo, descubren su paradero y deben volver a huir.

La impostura permite a Chaplin contrastar en las películas al impostor con el personaje de modos vulgares que había ido creando. Este impostor de maneras elegantes y dignas que parece ir suplantando -afortunadamente- al anterior personaje por un nuevo Charlot.

Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]

Un par de vagabundos deciden fingir una pelea de exhibición de boxeo para un promotor. En tanto Pug, un tipo de buen corazón pero alborotador, enfrenta un grupo de atrevidos que molesta a su novia. Impresionados por sus habilidades deciden hacerlo pasar por Cyclone Flynn, el campeón, y hacerlo participar de un encuentro de boxeo.

Chaplin representa el personaje de una mujer de carácter fuerte que encuentra a su marido cortejando una mujer. En su furia la mujer irrumpe en un set de filmación derribando al director de la película, encarnado por Mack Sennett y a un policía representado por Billy Gilbert hasta que finalmente el esposo empuja a su mujer de un muelle haciéndola caer al agua.

Mientras atraviesa un parque Charlot encuentra a Mabel, una joven de alta sociedad, y a dos malandrines que la están asaltando y logra ponerlos en fuga. En agradecimiento la joven lo invita a una fiesta. Charlot, que era camarero en un café de un barrio pobre, se hace pasar por un conde y concurre a la misma. Sus barrabasadas y su vulgaridad llaman la atención pero no lo delatan. Charlot regresa a su trabajo y justo allí concurre el festejante de Mabel, y rival de Charlot, con algunos amigos en tren de visitar un lugar para ellos desusado. Finaliza la película con un alboroto final al ser descubierta su impostura.

Charlot es el huésped preferido de la casa y congenia con la patrona, Minta Durfee (que en la realidad era la esposa de Roscoe Arbuckle). Al esposo de la patrona, Edgar Kennedy, esta situación no le hace feliz pero él también tiene lo suyo. Un show de sombras chinescas conducido por el hijo de la pareja embaraza a todos y produce un alboroto.

Chaplin interpreta el papel de un rico caballero de clase alta, cuyo romance con una joven peligra cuando ella lo ve abrazar una criada.

Charlot, bastante borracho, entra en un bar a beber y, perdido todo control, comienza a provocar desastres. La acción continúa con nuevos incidentes del mismo estilo cuando, ya en la calle, sigue a una hermosa joven hasta su casa.

La joven bonita provoca una rivalidad amorosa que desemboca en los habituales corridas, choques, etc...

Después de ver en el cinematógrafo una película de los Estudios Keystone, Charlot intenta colarse en los estudios mezclado entre los actores famosos, como Roscoe Arbuckle y Ford Sterling, y lo logra, pese a la oposición del portero. Una vez dentro, se acerca al plató donde filman una película e inadvertidamente causa y desconcierto.

Charlot se emborracha en el vestíbulo de un hotel causando algunos malentendidos entre Mabel y su novio.

Un estafador enreda a un periodista para conseguir algo de dinero y luego pide un trabajo en su periódico.

Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.

Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!

Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river. Here he rescues a little boy and becomes a hero. He goes home to wife in a bedraggled condition, tells of rescue and is set upon a pedestal. Wife, as a reward, takes him to the movies at night and sees husband flirting and fighting in the fountain, where some enterprising cameraman caught him. That explaining, as she thought, the bedraggled state in which he arrived home, she turns and beats him all the way home.

Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.

The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.

Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.