Ford Sterling
Birthday: 1883-11-03
Place of Birth: La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Biography: Ford Sterling (born George Stitch; November 3, 1883 – October 13, 1939) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4', he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.
Movies
Between Showers
Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp a...
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Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla...
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He Who Gets Slapped
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a...
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The Trouble With Wives
William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vi...
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Sporting Goods
Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hop...
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Wife Savers
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, mu...
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Drums of the Desert
John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploitin...
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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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His Father's Footsteps
About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father....
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Tango Tangles
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl....
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A Film Johnnie
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job),...
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A Thief Catcher
Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime....
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Miss Brewster's Millions
Polly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie extra inherits one million dollars. But her new la...
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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 Show Off
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young...
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Behind the Green Lights
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal l...
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Her Majesty, Love
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desse...
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Why Beaches Are Popular
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin...
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Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful s...
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The Water Nymph
Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father....
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A Grocery Clerk's Romance
Ford arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and marr...
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Stage Struck
Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she a...
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A Muddy Romance
Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets M...
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Dirty Work in a Laundry
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry pre...
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Hide and Seek
The young granddaughter of a banker plays a game of hide-and-seek with her mother, Mabel. After Mabe...
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The Gusher
Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twi...
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Toplitsky and Company
Toplitsky runs a second-hand clothing shop, but his partner "admires" his wife. Two conniving busine...
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Cohen Saves the Flag
Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receiv...
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Peeping Pete
This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in ...
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A Strong Revenge
Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with M...
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arb...
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The Headline Woman
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father'...
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Keystone Hotel
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the f...
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Double Crossed
Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get...
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Our Dare-Devil Chief
A gang of thieves continually threaten or attempt to kill the Mayor, always setting up the bumbling ...
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Many Unhappy Returns
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In orde...
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A Bandit
Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully ...
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The Speed Kings
Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite....
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The Waiters' Picnic
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' ...
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Kismet
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to r...
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Bride of the Regiment
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Mari...
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Love and Rubbish
Two groundskeepers compete for the attention of a pretty park visitor. When the woman’s daughter goe...
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Rastus and the Game Cock
Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett....
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For the Love of Mabel
A presumably lost film starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle....
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Professor Bean's Removal
Professor Bean's Removal is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand....
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Love and Courage
Love and Courage is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand....
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When Dreams Come True
A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ...
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, an...
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The Fatal Taxicab
The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling....
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A Small Time Act
A Small Time Act is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle....
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His Sister's Kids
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee....
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A Robust Romeo
A Robust Romeo is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Emma Bell Clifton....
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In the Clutches of the Gang
In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols....
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Her Birthday Present
Two thieves burgle a necklace from a policeman, but then begin to quarrel between themselves, leadin...
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director...
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Casey at the Bat
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable abili...
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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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The Day of Faith
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a pow...
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Sally
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the...
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Their First Execution
A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first...
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On His Wedding Day
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory...
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A Fishy Affair
A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's...
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Black Sheep
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized b...
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Her Torpedoed Love
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in t...
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The Knockout
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying t...
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The Strangers' Banquet
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and...
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That Little Band Of Gold
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage,...
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The Ragtime Band
Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the aff...
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Everybody's Acting
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the ...
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The Girl in the Show
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when th...
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Court House Crooks
A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the s...
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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Cohen Collects a Debt
After second hand clothier Cohen receives $1000 from a rival firm (unaware that the amount was borro...
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Riley and Schultze
A constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to apprehen...
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The New Neighbor
When a new neighbor attempts to save a young wife from an intruder, her husband misunderstands; the ...
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The Beating He Needed
Effeminate college boy Mace is sent West by father Sterling to make a man out of him, but Mace only ...
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Pedro's Dilemma
Mack attempts to elope with Mabel, but her friend dons the veil; this confuses both Mack and Mabel's...
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The Flirting Husband
Mrs. Smith's friends decide to teach her flirty husband a lesson by engaging him in a saucy game of ...
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Stolen Glory
Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the...
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The Ambitious Butler
A cocky butler poses as a Count to win an heiress during his master's absence, but his scheme is foi...
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Mabel's Lovers
At a summer resort, Mabel puts ugly bumps under her bathing suit to discourage fair-weather suitors;...
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A Temperamental Husband
Brown is insanely jealous of his wife and mistakes her brother for a lover, while the Brown's child ...
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At Coney Island
Mack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out of s...
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At It Again
Mrs. Smith hired detectives to trail her husband, whom she believes is being unfaithful; police chie...
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The Rivals
Mabel prefers conceited Fred to earnest rube Mack, but when she is held up by tramps Fred runs out o...
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Mr. Fixit
Bashful Mack has his friend Fred take flowers and presents to his girl Mabel by proxy, but the "frie...
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The Deacon's Troubles
The minister is appointed head of a purity league designed to keep a risque dancer from performing h...
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A Bear Escape
Sleuths Mack and Fred go after bandit Ford, but wind up tied to a tree by the crook with a ferocious...
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Chicken à la King
A married tightwad learns to loosen up by living the life of a playboy....
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So Big
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peak...
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Good and Naughty
Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu....
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The Road to Glory
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight....
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This fi...
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Love and Glory
During an uprising in Algeria in 1869, two Frenchmen--Anatole, the brother of Gabrielle, and Pierre,...
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A Quiet Fourth
An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to f...
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The American Venus
A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the...
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Wild Oranges
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from just...
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A Healthy Neighborhood
An unscrupulous doctor tries to drum up business by having the sidewalk in front of his house covere...
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My Lady's Lips
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A repo...
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The Brass Bottle
Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up...
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He Wouldn't Stay Down
A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money....
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The Fall of Eve
Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists E...
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Oh Kay!
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to se...
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All Business
Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on ...
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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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Hoffmeyer's Legacy
Hoffmeyer is harassed by creditors, but thinks his troubles are over when he receives a legacy of $5...
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A Life in the Balance
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb....
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn ba...
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The Golden Age of Comedy
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and...
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Figures Don't Lie
Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene p...
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Mabel’s Adventures
Mabel poses as "Cousin Jack" in a scheme to test her two quarreling suitors who decide to take young...
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Stranded in Paris
American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, ...
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The Woman on the Jury
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had...
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The Deacon Outwitted
The deacon's daughter, Betty, is in love with Harold Price. The deacon wants to buy a horse from Har...
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The Bowling Match
An amusing bowling match between Messrs. Sauer and Kraut. The balls and pins are manipulated by an e...
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Father’s Choice
Father wants Mabel to marry a little, wealthy shrimp. She is in love with Charlie, a big, strapping ...
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For Lizzie's Sake
A villain attempts to win the love of a pretty fisher girl, who is in love with a village youth. The...
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The Inventor’s Secret
An old toymaker invents an automatic doll and goes to the lawyers to apply for a patent. That day a ...
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The Foreman of the Jury
Jones is broke. His girl is giving a birthday party, and her various suitors give her costly present...
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The Cure That Failed
George is addicted to the flowing cup, and his friends all try to reform him. His intentions are goo...
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An Interrupted Elopement
This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edwar...
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Heinze’s Resurrection
Heinze is lazy, and his wife is disgusted with him. His friend, Pat, secretly admires Mrs. Heinze, a...
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The Hansom Driver
Mabel's husband is a hansom cab driver. After a quarrel Mabel imagines herself neglected, and listen...
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The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
Advantage was taken of the fact that a floral parade was being held at Pasadena, Cal. in which the K...
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Love Sickness at Sea
Mabel, her father and Mr. Tra La La, a suitor, much to her disgust, for her hand, take a trip on the...
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Just Brown’s Luck
Brown is troubled with an over-abundance of affection, and his wife and mother-in-law convince him o...
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Love and Pain
Jones is engaged to a jealous girl, Ethel. His stenographer has a fainting spell in his office and J...
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Those Good Old Days
His subjects have been vainly petitioning the king for improvements in his reign, without avail. The...
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Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Mabel has two suitors, Smith and Jones. Smith is an elderly man who impetuously sweeps everything be...
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A Midnight Elopement
Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other, but her father vehemently shows his...
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Oh, Mabel Behave
Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has ...
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The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand....
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The Battle of Who Run
A Civil war comedy starring Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost....
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Red Hot Romance
A burlesque of a Spanish courtship, in which two rivals for the hand of a beautiful senorita battle ...
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The Mistaken Masher
Georgie Burns is a conceited, athletic individual, who has turned his home into a gymnasium. His pre...
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Saving Mabel’s Dad
Three rivals are aspirants for the hand of Mabel. Dad falls asleep in a rowboat and is set adrift by...
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His Chum the Baron
Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not hav...
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How Hiram Won Out
Hiram, a country youth, is in love with Sallie. They go fishing and Sallie falls into the water. Hir...
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The Speed Queen
Nellie's father is a judge, afflicted with a species of St. Vitus' dance. When he feels an attack co...
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Zuzu, the Band Leader
A comedy short with Ford Sterling impersonating a band leader and a flirtatious Mabel Normand creati...
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The Galloping Fish
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new ...
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The Doctored Affair
Harry and Tillie are preparing to elope when her dad appears and boots his would-be son-in-law out o...
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Foiling Fickle Father
A short comedy starring Mabel Normand. It is now considered lost....
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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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