Sarah Duhamel

Pétronille tries and fails to commit suicide, multiple ways, after her boyfriend Casimir dumps her. A morbid but amusing comedy.

Pétronille's husband jockey, Tortillard, face-plants in the middle of the track. She puts on his clothes and mount his steed, “despite her rotund build” at 100 kilos. She leads the other riders on an off-track equestrian escapade, eventually making it back to the course.

A robust housekeeper loses control of her new pet monkey, and it quickly trashes her middle-class employer’s home.

Rosalie is a maid for a wealthy family and receives a letter that her cousin is coming to visit. She assumes that a burglar is her cousin and the mix-up and chaos begins.

A Billesque, showing the amusing efforts of "Merry William" to win the affections of his ladylove. She shuns him. He seeks the magic spell, and through the misuse of same brings the affections of nearly every other lady tumbling around his little heart. The magic spell consists of burning a lock of the lady's hair. Well, how was a poor, innocent little male thing like Bill to know that a lady's hair is not always "Home-Grown?

The wife of Patouillard begs him for new clothes according to the latest fashion in the newspapers. So they go out for some shopping. Afterwards she is going out in her new dress, which is so tight that she can hardly walk in it. She changes the skirt for a pair of trousers, but finds herself being laughed at, and when the trousers get wet at the seaside, Patouillard finally puts her in a jute bag and makes her hop back home.

Pétronille, a maid, borrows one of her employer's dress to go out with her boyfriend Onésime but the outfit is ruined during the meeting.

Maurice Schwartz and Sarah Duhamel meet at a party, and he falls instantly in love with her. She doesn't even notice him. He follows her and her escort home, and when she passes a note through her window to what she thinks is the other guy, Schwartz gets the note, and pursues the object of his affection.

Wimpy Little Moritz needs to toughen up to win Rosalie, but ends up smashing everyone and everything in sight when boxing lessons turn him into a mindless fighting machine. (MoMA)

Rosalie and Léontine go to the theater and are swept away by big emotions.

Rosalie moves into an apartment building, disturbing her neighbors above, below, and next to her.

French silent comedy.

Anarchic physical destruction

A jolly housekeeper brings new meaning to the notion of “home entertainment” with a handsome new portable phonograph that causes people, furniture, and buildings to rock and roll through the magic of stop-motion animation. (MoMA)

A couple’s fight over dinner leads to spiralling domestic abuse that spreads all over town. (MoMA)