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Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
Miss Millie
Mientras investiga el robo de una valiosa estatua de jade conocida como "La Dama Desaparecida", y el posterior asesinato de un comerciante de arte, el detective imperceptible Lamont Cranston, también conocido como la Sombra (Kane Richmond), es culpado del crimen. No ayuda las afirmaciones de inocencia de La Sombra cuando más cuerpos comienzan a acumularse. Menos mal que sabe exactamente quién es el culpable entre un grupo cada vez más pequeño de sospechosos.
Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Dos muchachas de Boston deciden trasladarse a Nueva York. Una de ellas trabaja como cantante en el local de un viejo amigo de la familia, mientras que la otra se enamora del hijo de un importante mecenas de la ópera.
Miss Peavy
Las personas fuera de la ley vienen y van en las vidas de Nick y Nora. Ahora es el momento de conocerlos como parientes. Los elegantes detectives dejan al pequeño Nick Jr. en la escuela, cogen a Asta y se van a Sycamore Springs, lugar de la infancia de Nick.
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
La tranquilidad de un pequeño pueblo de Estados Unidos se ve alterada después de un baile al que asistieron algunos soldados. Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), una hermosa chica, aparece al día siguiente borracha, con un anillo de casada en el dedo y embarazada de un hombre del que sólo conoce el apellido. Había seis soldados, pero no recuerda quién es el afortunado.
Martha Williams
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Siglo XVII. Cuando Jennifer, acusada de brujería, está a punto de ser quemada en la hoguera, lanza una maldición sobre su acusador: todos sus descendientes serán infelices en sus matrimonios. En 1942, Wallace Wooley, al tiempo que se presenta como candidato a gobernador, está preparando su boda con la presumida de Estelle Masterson. Un rayo golpea el árbol junto al cual fue quemada la bruja y ésta cobra vida. Desde entonces, intentará arruinar la vida de Wallace.
Passenger (uncredited)
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Miss Updike
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Casket Customer
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Charwoman
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Head of Orphanage
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Divertida comedia, de la que W. C. Fields tuvo el control casi absoluto. Aparte de ser el protagonista, el actor firmó el guión con el curioso seudónimo de Mahatma Kane Jeeves. En realidad la trama es completamente disparatada, casi mera excusa para acumular gags sobre el personaje de Egbert Sousé, una especie de 'alter ego' de Fields, o al menos de la imagen que tenía de él el gran público. El actor da vida a un borrachín, que por casualidad detiene a un atracador de bancos. A partir de ahí nace una fulgurante carrera de detective, prácticamente a su pesar, pues él incluso intenta participar en una estafa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Righteous Old Lady
Los padres de Wendy Ballantine deciden retirarse del negocio del espectáculo para que pueda tener una vida normal. No son bienvenidos en la pequeña ciudad hasta que una tormenta le permite a la familia mostrar sus cosas.
Women's Club President
Ginger Rogers y Ronald Colman comparten un premio de un sorteo y se van de falsa luna de miel, con resultados perfectamente predecibles.
Miss Eggleston
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Nicky es un buscavidas de poca monta, con un grupo en la calle que toca jazz, hasta que el propietario del lugar les echa por no pagar el alquiler. Después, Nicky conoce a una cantante prometedora, quien le convence de hablar con el director de una emisora de radio para promocionarla.
Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
Miss Jenkins
Biopic sobre el inventor del teléfono -o considerado durante mucho tiempo como tal, pues parece ser que sólo fue el primero en patentarlo-. "El gran milagro" era una superproducción muy al gusto de Darryl F. Zanuck que comenzaba en el Boston de 1873 y culminaba con la invención del "artilugio de las palabras" tres años después. Entre medias había romance, superación personal y el juicio que se estableció entre la poderosa Western Union y Bell por los derechos de patente del invento.
Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Personajes muy variopintos emprenden un largo, duro y peligroso viaje en diligencia. Entre ellos, un fuera de la ley en busca de venganza, una prostituta a la que han echado del pueblo, un jugador, un médico, la mujer embarazada de un militar y un sheriff. Las relaciones entre ellos serán difíciles y tensas. Además, durante el viaje, tendrán que afrontar el ataque de una partida de indios apaches.
Mrs. Shackleford
Adaptación de novela homónima de Mark Twain. Amante de la libertad sin ataduras de ningún tipo -¡ni siquiera la de los zapatos!-, el joven Huckleberry Finn (Mickey Rooney), aprovecha la circunstancia de que, su irresponsable padre, quiere chantajear al par de hermanas con las que ahora vive, decide escapar de casa y en el camino se encuentra a Jim (Rex Ingram), el sirviente de casa que también ha escapado, pues, ansía la libertad para reencontrarse con su familia. Como un par de fugitivos, juntos van a vivir una serie de aventuras, donde el resto de la sociedad parecerá estar contra ellos.
Widow Peddie
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
English Woman
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Dressmaker
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
El reportero Wallace Cook propone a su periódico publicar una serie de historias sobre Hazel Flagg, una chica que asegura estar mortalmente intoxicada por exposición al radio. Aunque la chica llega a descubrir que lo que ha dicho es falso, acepta viajar a Nueva York con Cook. La situación se complica cuando ambos se enamoran y, además, un especialista alemán descubre que ella finge su enfermedad.
Leader of Committee (uncredited)
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Housekeeper
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
Elderly lady (uncredited)
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance. Conrad Norris, Dwight's cousin, disapproves of Dwight and Penny, and resents his uncle's generosity. The uncle is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and, there being no will, Conrad, as next of kin, inherits. Switch, the uncle's lawyer, tells Dwight he is shutout with no hope of appeal. Dwight starts writing mystery novels about a fictional detective named Steven Knight, which become instant hits and the money pours in.
Miss Swerf
J. B. Wall (Arnold) es un rico banquero de Wall Street que está harto de los dispendios económicos tanto de su ocioso hijo John (Milland) como de su esposa Jennie (Nash). Indignado, tira por la azotea la última adquisición de su mujer, un costoso abrigo de marta. El abrigo cae encima de Mary Smith (Jean Arthur), una mecanógrafa que trabaja en una revista infantil.
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
Danny (Robert Montgomery) es un joven apuesto que entabla amistad con la enferma anciana Mrs. Bramson, sintiéndose enseguida atraído por su sobrina Olivia (Rosalind Russell). Las cosas cambian cuando las noticias anuncian el terrible asesinato de una persona a manos de un homicida; y Olivia comienza a sospechar de Danny. ¿Será el chico el brutal asesino que está aterrorizando a toda la ciudad?
Train Passenger
n Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
Old Maid at Dog Show
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.
Home Economics Woman
A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Durante un viaje, Joe Wilson llega a un lugar desconocido, donde es encarcelado por un delito que no ha cometido. Los vecinos, amotinados, provocan el incendio de la cárcel y dan por muerto al forastero. Sin embargo, Wilson consigue sobrevivir y, entonces, intentará vengarse haciendo que sus potenciales asesinos corran el mismo peligro del que él escapó milagrosamente. "Fury" es el primer film americano del gran director alemán Fritz Lang.
Mrs. Robinson
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Landlady (uncredited)
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
Miss Curtiss
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
Mrs. Potter, Landlady
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Townswoman at Party
Una familia residente en una granja de Maine acoge a una mujer joven, sin saber que tiene un secreto oculto que a nadie ha querido contar.
Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
Housekeeper (uncredited)
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
Granny Adams
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
Customer (uncredited)
This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.
Ship's Matron (uncredited)
Un pintor de retratos se reúne con un antiguo amor, cuando las inminentes memorias de ésta amenazan su carrera política.
Animal Woman (uncredited)
Sonia es una viuda, inmensamente rica, de Marshovia, pequeño país centro europeo del que controla la mitad de la riqueza. El país depende de que ella gaste su dinero en él, así que, cuando se traslada a París porque no logra encontrar marido, el rey envía al Conde Danilo a cortejarla y traerla de vuelta. Si no lo consigue, se le formará consejo de guerra.
Head Nurse
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
Duchess
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
Edith (uncredited)
En este triángulo amoroso, Diane no puede decidir si le gusta Michael, a quien conoció en un viaje en barco, o Richard, el empresario casado que está tratando de olvidar.
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Mrs. Wendelschaffer
The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
The Streams' Housekeeper (uncredited)
Un magnate del ferrocarril es chantajeado por el novio y manager de la chica con la que comete adulterio.
Schoolteacher
Muchacho Sonriente ha sido criado a la manera tradicional de los navajos y no tiene contacto con la civilización; en agudo contraste Muchacha Esbelta, educada en la ciudad, no es bien vista por los navajos por el tipo de vida que lleva, impropia de una navajo... de ahí que traten de impedir que ambos se casen.
Mrs. Price
Sam Bisbee es un inventor cuyos trabajos (por ejemplo, un buscador de cerraduras para borrachos) solo le han traído pobreza. Su hija está enamorada del hijo del snob del pueblo. Los acontecimientos conspiran para arruinar su neumático a prueba de balas justo cuando el éxito parece estar cerca. Otro de sus inventos le prohíbe suicidarse, por lo que Sam decide seguir viviendo.
Mrs. Twitchett
Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a very lightweight (and light-hearted) nature. The film begins at a city council meeting where an unidentified politician announces that the government has released $50,000 for the relief of unemployed plumbers. This prompts applause, but also a pointed question from an angry woman who wants to know what the government is going to do for the members of her profession: chorus girls. The politician glibly replies that the administration has set aside money—two million dollars, no less!—for the re-education of chorus girls, "to fit them for the better things in life."
Miss Pettigrew
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
George Curtis, pintor, y Tom Chambers, autor teatral, que comparten un piso en París, conocen en el tren que se dirige a esta ciudad a Gilda Farrell, americana como ellos y dibujante publicitaria. Ambos se enamoran inmediatamente de ella y, como Gilda es incapaz de decidirse por uno, deciden vivir un menage à trois.
Briarcroft's Teacher
Tras alcanzar el éxito, un cantante de baladas abandona a su prometida, una joven profesora, y se marcha con una mujer fatal. A pesar de ello, la novia no se rinde e intentará recuperarlo utilizando todos los medios a su alcance.
Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss
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.
Aunt Emily Banning
Pese a su prestigio profesional, el doctor George Bull comienza a ser puesto en entredicho por alguno de sus vecinos del pueblo en el que ejerce la medicina por sus frecuentes visitas a una viuda. Las cosas se complicarán todavía más cuando se desate en la localidad una epidemia de tifus...
Smythe (maid)
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Muriel's mother
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Charley suddenly believes he IS Tarzan.
Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
Spinster in Park
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Miss Winterbottom
When the boys run over a dummy, they think they've killed someone. They decide to dispose of the "body" and mistake a seminary for a cemetery.
Female Police Officer
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
Mrs. Cecil
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
Tras una fuerte discusión con Bill Fadden, su novio de toda la vida, Ruth Brock lo deja plantado y se pasa toda la tarde con Romer Sheffield, un apuesto joven que conoce casualmente en la calle. Algún tiempo después, cuando, solucionados los problemas, Bill y Ruth están a punto de casarse, el fantasma de esa tarde reaparece. Tanto Bill como sus familiares y amigos creen que Ruth ese día le fue infiel. Al extenderse ese rumor, Ruth pierde incluso su trabajo. Entonces la joven decide buscar a Romer para que sea él quien explique lo que pasó de verdad esa maldita tarde. Solo así podrá lavar su reputación.
Miss Tuttle, Principal
Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
Mientras Laurel y Hardy luchan en el frente durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un buen amigo suyo resulta gravemente herido y, antes de morir, les pide que busquen a su hija y la lleven a casa de sus abuelos; pero la misión resultará más difícil de lo previsto. En su segundo largometraje, Laurel y Hardy se propusieron suavizar con unas pinceladas de humor un asunto tan serio como la guerra.
Saleslady
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
Landlady (uncredited)
Una bibliotecaria tímida e ingenua de Nueva York debe volverse más fuerte y más sabia después de descubrir que su nuevo esposo es un mentiroso, un tramposo y un fraude.
Nurse (uncredited)
Martin Arrowsmith es un joven e idealista doctor que, tras graduarse, se ve obligado a renunciar a un puesto como investigador con el prestigioso Dr. Max Gottlieb para casarse con la enfermera Leora Tozer. Regresa a su hogar natal en el campo, estableciendo una pequeña consulta, y en su tiempo libre desarrollará un suero para detener una mortal plaga del ganado.
Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
El escenario es una manzana anónima durante un verano sofocante, donde los residentes - italianos, judíos, suecos, alemanes e irlandeses- representan el no muy idealizado crisol de razas estadounidenses. Hay cháchara ociosa... chismorreos... celos... racismo... adulterio... y, de repente pero no inesperadamente, un asesinato.
Hotel Proprietress
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men-- Men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Mrs. Partridge
Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Dos hermanos ingleses se alistan en las fuerzas aéreas británicas durante la I Guerra Mundial. El objetivo de sus proezas será conquistar el corazón de una hermosa joven.
Dr. Zernecke
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
Amelia Twymley
Sarah Ann Dowey es una anciana londinense solitaria que elige al joven soldado Kenneth como hijo ficticio, el cual está luchando en el frente. De este modo, presumirá ante sus amistades de los logros del muchacho, como si fuera su propio hijo. Cuando Kenneth cae herido en batalla es llevado a Londres con un permiso de una semana, y allí conocerá a Sarah Ann, que se hacer pasar por su madre.
(uncredited)
Una estrella de la comedia musical llamada Fifi D'Auray es famosa por su encanto galo, aunque en realidad es una Betty Murphy. No se casará con su prometido, Jimmy, hasta que deje de apostar y obtenga un trabajo honesto. Como Fifi, tiene al rico playboy Gregory obsesionado con ella, y él hace todo lo posible para complacerla, incluso consiguiendo a Jimmy un puesto como tesorero de su teatro. Un robo se atribuye a Jimmy, y Fifi cree que Gregory le había tendido una trampa.
Old Witch
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
Mrs. Crandall
A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy.
The Mayor
In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
Julia
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
(uncredited)
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
Matron Helen Hunt
When the girls on campus learn that Tom Drake is so super-shy that he never kissed a girl, they begin betting which one will kiss him first. So the girls line up to try to get their lips on him. However, in this and subsequent scenes, crazy stuff keeps happening to prevent him from getting that kiss.
Mrs. Lodge
Llega un nuevo pastor a la ciudad, un hombre joven y con las ideas muy claras acerca de su apostolado. Muy pronto se da cuenta de que el lugar está repleto de "trabajo" para él. Reina la despreocupación y la lujuria y como muestra conoce a una disoluta joven de la mejor sociedad quien, atraída e intrigada por él, tratará de hacerle difícil su tarea redentoria.
School Teacher
Trouble begins when Mme. Girard steps out on her husband, Criquette's father, to fool around with rakish Phillippe Levaux. When Monsieur Girard finds out, Criquette saves her stepmother from scandal by tricking Levaux into a hasty marriage.
Mrs. Randall
Cowboy Jerry Alton is content with life on the Bar Z Ranch until Mrs. Randall hires pretty Marian Faer to assist in cooking. Marian explains that she is looking for a redheaded husband. All the men are smitten with her, and several, including Jerry, try to dye their hair red.
Mrs. Hart
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
Dr. Cecil Grantham
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.
Countess Casanova
His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
Matilda Shields - in play
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
Townswoman
A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothys Quest (1922) is a rare, cinematic gem based on a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), who was then known as Americas best loved author of stories about children.
A blind cobbler is able, by dint of his extraordinary hearing, to recognize the identity of a murderer. His own son is accused of the killing, and the old man waits, knowing the murderer will return to prevent the blind man from revealing what he knows.
For revenge, wealthy Osbert Gault marries Virginia Mynors, the daughter of a woman who had jilted him years earlier. Unaware of Gault's motives, Virginia consents to the marriage for the sake of her impoverished family.
Emily
Letters from the late mother of orphaned sisters Jane and Katherine seem to indicate that their father is Capt. Bob Dutton. Under orders from his superior, Colonel Harding, to acknowledge the children or quit the service, Dutton accepts responsibility for them. Shocked by his presumably checkered past, Cecile Harding, Dutton's fiancée and the colonel's daughter, breaks their engagement. One evening Jane surprises Capt. Robert Duncan, Dutton's rival for Cecile, stealing Bob's papers.
When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley Granville Barker and Lawrence Housman in 1918, they had been successfully staged for many years, opening in Moscow and on Broadway and everywhere. Today, the saccharine charm of these anti-modern fairy tales doesn’t work any more. But undistracted by the meaning or action of the film, we can enjoy the surface of Prunella all the better, the dazzling sets and costumes, silhouettes and painted backdrops created by the great art director Ben Carré in a fashionable Art Déco Neo-Rococo style.
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate. The gypsy chief, aware of the girl's value, instructs Sabia, the tribe's matron, to dress and rear her as a boy. Years later, while the tribe is traveling in Virginia, Vosho, the chief's son, discovers the true sex of the girl, now called Firefly, and demands to marry her.
Miss McPherson
Princess Sylvia refuses to marry the Emperor Maximilian of Rhaetia because his proposal has been offered for diplomatic rather than romantic reasons. Learning that Maximilian is traveling to a hunting lodge in a small village, Sylvia follows him, disguised as an untitled English girl, and the emperor immediately falls in love with her.
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
Tillie and her neighbor Mr. Pipkins are both distraught over their respective marriages. One day, they sneak off to have a lively time at Coney Island. They flee the park together just as their spouses come to find them. After a chase, each is rescued from the ocean and reconcile with their respective spouses.
Spinster (uncredited)
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.
Mrs Gossip
Mr. Cherub is considered by all tne world to be a model husband. Housewives hold him up as a shining example to their husbands. In truth, however, Mr. Cherub is anything but a virtuous husband.
