James Finlayson
Birthday: 1887-08-26
Place of Birth: Larbert, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
Biography: James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh", and as the most famous comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.
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The Flying Deuces
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempt...
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Way Out West
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector....
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She Sighed by the Seaside
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Char...
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Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...
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The Haunted Honeymoon
The Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, st...
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To Be or Not to Be
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...
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She-Wolf of London
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family cur...
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Block-Heads
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and ...
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Madame Sans Jane
A young couple want to marry, but the girl's father doesn't like her beau. To separate them, the fat...
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Unfriendly Enemies
Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his h...
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they c...
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Pack Up Your Troubles
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War ...
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The Iceman's Ball
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to...
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Our Relations
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Har...
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Saps at Sea
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. ...
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A Punch in the Nose
A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hil...
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Why Husbands Go Mad
When Charley's wife buys a bulldog for his birthday present and has a special key made for the room ...
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Hard Boiled
Charley Chase slapstick comedy short where he gets involved with a ventriloquist dummy among other w...
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Merry Widower
Julius loses his wife to Rudy because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to...
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Forgotten Sweeties
Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him....
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Nature in the Wrong
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, ...
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Men O' War
Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are sh...
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Night Owls
Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been ha...
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Sugar Daddies
After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. H...
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Our Wife
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are th...
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One Good Turn
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches....
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The prince of the dollar
El príncipe del dólar is an American comedy short with all speaking Spanish...
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f...
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Liberty
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each othe...
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Me and My Pal
On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle...
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The World of Laurel and Hardy
The funniest moments from Laurel and Hardy's most hilarious films...
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Another Fine Mess
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lesse...
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Call of the Cuckoo
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum....
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Chickens Come Home
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo....
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Do Detectives Think?
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to gua...
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The Hoose-Gow
Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a r...
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Thundering Fleas
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which g...
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Thicker Than Water
Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money...
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Love 'Em and Weep
Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a...
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With Love and Hisses
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant troub...
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The Bohemian Girl
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter....
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Wedding Yells
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920)....
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Angel
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man....
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The Devil's Brother
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo,...
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Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923...
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The Crossroads of New York
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of in...
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Yes, Yes, Nanette
Nanette sends a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to me...
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Oranges and Lemons
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help anoth...
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The Toast of New York
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, a...
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Hard Knocks and Love Taps
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first...
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Here We Go Again
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first...
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Show Girl
An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble ...
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Mush and Milk
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park....
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Wife Tamers
Mr. Barry has a huge argument with his wife, and to make her jealous, he asks his valet to set him u...
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Hasty Marriage
It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and h...
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The Gay Nighties
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the p...
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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although...
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Thieves
Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidem...
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In the Grease
"IN THE GREASE" (1925) stars James Finlayson who must raise his kid by himself and also take over t...
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All Over Town
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being ha...
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The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by co...
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Raggedy Rose
Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor....
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Anything Once!
ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of...
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A Small Town Idol
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and no...
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Sold at Auction!
Snub gets a job helping an auctioneer. He’s instructed to sell off a household estate, but goes to t...
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A Man About Town
A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty y...
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California or Bust
After their house is blown away by a twister, a farmer and his wife decide to move to California. On...
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White Wings
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist....
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No Man's Law
A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter...
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Seeing the World
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe a...
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Don't Leave Home
Johnny Hines flies in from Chicago early to surprise wife Doris Phillips and their infant. Meanwhile...
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For the Defense
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks ...
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Frozen Hearts
In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful...
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The Whole Truth
A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wi...
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Chasing the Chaser
A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been...
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The Mystery Man
An unconventional super detective (Snub) pursues a trio of crooks who've stolen the fortune of his g...
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Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's pack...
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Should Tall Men Marry?
This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to ...
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr...
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Dizzy Daddies
When the story begins, Johnnie comes to the lawyer's house (James Finlayson) in order to woo the man...
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Big Business
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an ...
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Short Kilts
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, bu...
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Thunder Below
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan f...
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Courtship of Miles Sandwich
The story of the first Thanksgiving is re-imagined as a father tells it to his son....
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The Noon Whistle
Stan is a lazy employee at a lumber company. Much of the first portion of the film has to do with St...
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the G...
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Young Eagles
Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who ...
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Dollar Dizzy
Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for t...
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Down on the Farm
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more ...
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Innocent Husbands
Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a ...
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Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on...
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Second Hand Kisses
Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other kn...
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Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It was nominate...
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A Chump at Oxford
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disast...
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The Chimp
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. T...
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Playing at Politics
Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him....
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The Nickel-Hopper
Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per...
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Sure-Mike!
Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the...
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Raffles
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. M...
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Grand Canyon Trail
Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until Vanerpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy's pa...
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Bonnie Scotland
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't qu...
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What's the World Coming To?
Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that...
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Smithy
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employme...
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The Caretaker's Daughter
The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced ...
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Don't Tell Everything
Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying...
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Moonlight and Noses
Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let ...
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Trying to Get Along
Café de Luxe's owner comes back to his restaurant after a vacation....
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Dick Turpin
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York....
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Near Dublin
Sir Patrick attempts to marry a young lady against her will. Nice guy Stan Laurel tries to help out ...
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Fast Freight
Fast Freight is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film. It was the 85th Our Gang short that was re...
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Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i...
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts....
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The Dawn Patrol
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promote...
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Madame Mystery
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts ...
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The Druggist's Dilemma
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough star as a couple of wacky soda jerks. They do a high wire act while ...
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Father and Son
A bank clerk takes the blame for a theft which he believes was committed by his ex-convict father....
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The Perils of Pauline
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a de...
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Royal Wedding
A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Roy...
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Hats Off
Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly after several...
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Pardon Us
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to ...
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Two Weeks Off
Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works a...
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Dog-Gone
Mr. Jones overhears a doctor prescribe a diet he thinks is for him, but it's really for his dog....
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Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
Experience Stan and Ollie in their funniest scenes: whether they build a house as construction worke...
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Before the Public
'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off ...
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Tell It to a Policeman
Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) c...
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....
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The Great Victor Herbert
In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in ...
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One of the Smiths
Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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His Silent Racket
James Finlayson manages to con Charley into becoming his partner in a failing dry cleaning shop that...
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Flaming Flappers
Glen and his friends are attending a co-ed school and are managing to have a very enjoyable time of ...
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Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New...
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Pick a Star
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with th...
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So This Is Harris!
The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting wit...
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The Soilers
During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, lea...
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MGM 1935 Promo Reel
Promo for MGM's upcoming 1935-36 releases hosted by Laurel & Hardy and Jimmy Finlayson. Brief clips ...
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Pick and Shovel
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel....
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Brothers Under the Chin
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted an...
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Wall Street
A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Inc...
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False Roomers
In the first RKO Short featuring the comedy team of Clark & McCullough, Clark (Bobby Clark)and Grust...
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Jitters the Butler
Two street cleaners, fired by the commissioner for playing with fire-crackers on the job, are taken ...
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Postage Due
Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery...
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One Hour Married
A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband....
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A Tough Winter
An ice-cold Snub adopts a gamin and her brother; A mean landlord seeking rent complicates matters an...
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Life Hesitates at 40
Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop....
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Manhattan Monkey Business
When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter....
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Welcome Home
Fred Prouty and his wife, Nettie, are living happily until the day that his aged father shows up on ...
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Mary, Queen of Tots
A couple makes dolls modeled on neighborhood kids. A gardener at a mansion buys four of them for Mar...
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Galloping Ghosts
A millionaire acquires a large diamond, said to be cursed. Despite the best efforts of his dutiful b...
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The Laurel & Hardy Story: An Affectionate Rememberence
Laurel and Hardy were hailed as '...the greatest comedy duo of all time...'. Now, over half a centur...
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Love, Honor and Behave
A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictur...
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Married Life
Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver....
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