Alice Lake
Birthday: 1895-09-11
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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.
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His Wedding Night
Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown...
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Dining Out
Comedy about a man who, reluctantly, spends an evening with his wife at home rather then going out d...
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Circumstantial Evidence
Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, i...
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I Am the Law
Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love ...
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The Bell Boy
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered b...
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Good Night, Nurse!
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has...
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Uncharted Seas
After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse...
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Lombardi, Ltd.
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensat...
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Out West
The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a tra...
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The Rough House
Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets t...
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Moonshine
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new ...
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The Cook
In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc...
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The Butcher Boy
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, ...
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Oh, Doctor!
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love wit...
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A Country Hero
Fatty plays a village blacksmith in “Jazzville,” an imaginary rural village. There is a rivalry betw...
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The Hole in the Wall
When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace...
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Frisco Kid
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him ris...
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Crazy Days
Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty A...
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A Creampuff Romance
A Creampuff Romance is a 1916 comedy short starring Fatty Arbuckle....
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The Grab Bag Bride
A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lov...
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The Unknown Purple
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his relea...
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The Golden Gift
Nita, a former singer, loses her voice and husband. To support her child, she becomes a cafe dancer....
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Full of Pep
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company,...
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Skyway
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her...
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The Angel of Broadway
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her custo...
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A Reckless Romeo
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only ...
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The Waiters' Ball
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirem...
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Broken Hearts of Broadway
The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway....
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Coney Island
Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that s...
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Glamour
An ambitious chorus girl finds fame, marriage, and motherhood with a talented composer, only to leav...
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Red Lights
A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father....
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Stage Mother
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve...
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The Picture Idol
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Mauric...
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The Lion's Den
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy ...
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Babes in Toyland
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mort...
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Twin Beds
A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zan...
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The Girl from Missouri
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and...
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Should a Woman Tell?
A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns ...
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Death on the Diamond
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debt...
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The Hurricane
"Hurricane" Jack Foster is a smuggler who ignores his wife and child in order to pursue Marguerite B...
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The Dancing Cheat
Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake star in this drama taken from the Saturday Evening Post story by Ca...
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The Marriage Market
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and...
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The Overland Limited
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful ...
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Come Through
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his ma...
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Wicked
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband...
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Camping Out
Camping Out is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Fatty is ...
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A Desert Hero
A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film...
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Blackie's Redemption
Shrewd crook Boston Blackie is determined to go straight. At a celebration held on the eve of his ma...
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Cupid's Day Off
Heretofore running a shoe store has been considered a quiet, respectable business, but Ben and his p...
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The Haunted Ship
A young sailor named John Shreve on the cargo ship Golden Bought falls for a woman, Mary, who is try...
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The Mystery of the Empty Room
Ruth and her father stay at an inn run by the malicious Scroogles. The Scroogles rob Ruth's father, ...
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The Spider and the Rose
In Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, ret...
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Nobody's Bride
Jimmy Nevins--once wealthy and now engaged to Doris Standish--is reduced to poverty and jilted by he...
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More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
An actor, Julian Lorraine (J. Frank Glendon), mistakenly believes his wife Viola Lorraine (Alice Lak...
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Environment
The rehabilitation of "Chicago Sal," a lady crook, is seemingly realized when probation officers sen...
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Hate
Gamblers Dave Hume and Ed Felton are rivals for the love of Babe Lennox, a chorus girl. Hume informs...
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Runaway Girls
Runaway Girls is a lost 1928 silent film drama directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Shirley Mason ...
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The Price of Success
Directed by Tony Gaudio. With Alice Lake, Lee Shumway, Gaston Glass, Florence Turner....
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