Dot Farley
Birthday: 1881-02-05
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia Dot Farley (February 6, 1881 – May 2, 1971) was an American film actress. She appeared in 280 films between 1910 and 1950. Mainly known for her roles in short comedies, prolific with Mack Sennett in the silent days; she was later notable as the Mother-in-law of Edgar Kennedy in most of his series of short films at the RKO studios. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in South Pasadena, California.
Movies
Getting a Raise
First in a series of shorts based on J. P. McEvoy's Tuttle Family characters. Pa Tuttle (Lucien Litt...
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Love Your Neighbor
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she fe...
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Radio Kisses
Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries...
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Swell People
A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner....
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Young April
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom....
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Why Leave Home?
Why Leave Home? is said to be a lost film according to the Fox section at Lost Film Files....
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The Rural Third Degree
Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The...
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The Head Man
Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the publi...
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A Rented Riot
While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new ...
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Fixing a Stew
Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for ev...
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Brooding Eyes
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his...
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Rugged Water
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin ...
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Astray from the Steerage
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sne...
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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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The Girl from Everywhere
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese....
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The Bicycle Flirt
Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother...
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The Girl from Nowhere
Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and...
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The Stranger from Arizona
A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers....
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Peril of the Plains
The first Warner Brothers production. The production was shot in St. Louis, Missouri....
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Calling Hubby's Bluff
Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his...
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Love Past Thirty
When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going ...
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A College Chicken
A College Chicken tells the story of a chicken that is stolen multiple times....
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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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Weak But Willing
Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distra...
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Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was relea...
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My Son
A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New Engl...
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Harmony at Home
This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors ...
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Murphy's I.O.U.
Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's...
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Good Housewrecking
Edgar Kennedy and his family open a home decorating service, even though they have no clue what they...
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False Pretenses
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They...
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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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Algy on the Force
Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a fro...
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The Paperhangers' Revenge
Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of ...
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The Little Irish Girl
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionabl...
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Will Power
Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. F...
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmun...
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Wrong Direction
Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) gets a call from the studio to come in and direct the last scene of a film in ...
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The Signal Tower
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out...
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A Woman of the World
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America wi...
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Fatty Joins the Force
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, b...
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Slander House
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the ...
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Road to Paradise
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels...
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The Overland Stage
At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack ...
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The Code of the Scarlet
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan wh...
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Disappearing Enemies
A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies....
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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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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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Bangville Police
A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re abo...
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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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The Garden of Eden
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carl...
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While Paris Sleeps
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques C...
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Bright Eyes
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry....
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We Have Our Moments
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen ...
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Picking Peaches
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe cler...
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Wanted: Jane Turner
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail....
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They Won't Believe Me
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to ...
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The Women
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays....
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Quiet Please!
In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot ...
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Gasoloons
While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. ...
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Curtain at Eight
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? Hi...
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One Cylinder Love
A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corra...
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The Red Kimona
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive....
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Big Money
In the fifth of WB's Potter Family series, based on the characters created by J.P.McAvoy, Pa Potter ...
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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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The Law of the Tong
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese...
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The Ranchman's Vengeance
Lorenz Pedro, a Mexican half-breed, owns a small sheep ranch, and lives happily with his wife Marie ...
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It's Your Move
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two w...
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Lawless Valley
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him....
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Celebrity
Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impe...
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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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Trapped in Tia Juana
An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know ...
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Golf Widows
Women won't let potential son-in-law marry her daughter unless he can get her husband to quit golfin...
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Love Is News
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th...
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San Fernando Valley
A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants ...
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His First Flame
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimo...
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Edgar Hamlet
A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches....
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Poisoned Ivory
Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her bro...
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An Elephant on His Hands
In this two-reel silent short, Mack gets a letter telling him about a gift/inheritance from India, a...
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Lawyer Man
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York ...
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Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady....
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Breaking the Ice
Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy....
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Hold Your Temper
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that ther...
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Down to Their Last Yacht
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sai...
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The Shamrock and the Rose
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters ...
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I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways....
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Little Accident
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby....
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Dummy Ache
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, su...
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Love on a Ladder
Florence wants to recapture the romance in her marriage and talks a reluctant Edgar into redonning h...
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Prunes and Politics
Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going now...
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Money Talks
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still...
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Obliging Young Lady
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor...
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The Acquittal
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and cha...
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The Enemy Sex
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, ...
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Fish Feathers
Edgar's mother-in-law claims that Edgar can't fish. Edgar is determined to prove her wrong....
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Brick-a-Brac
In this episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series, Edgar Kennedy lays bricks....
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Cooks and Crooks
A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a...
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Duck Soup
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance....
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard...
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The King of Kings
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, w...
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Breakfast at Sunrise
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall f...
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His Unlucky Night
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their tr...
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$1,000 a Touchdown
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to...
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Hot Foot
Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with ...
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Memory Lane
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Pro...
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Cat People
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with...
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Feather Your Nest
Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the s...
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Radio Rampage
When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to sav...
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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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Even Unto Death
Dorthea Gordon comes to a fishing village with her ill-tempered brother, Walter. She rows out to a r...
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The Climbers
The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistre...
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Boy of Mine
A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes w...
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The Big Beef
Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman ...
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Look Who's Laughing
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufactu...
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Marquis Preferred
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support...
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Tea- With a Kick!
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college f...
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a t...
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So This Is Paris
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices...
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The Third Alarm
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veter...
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Motor Maniacs
Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is com...
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When Knights Were Cold
Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type ch...
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Divorce Made Easy
When his aunt disapproves of his marriage to Mabel Deering and threatens to disinherit him, Percy el...
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Do or Diet
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-...
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Sammy's Scandalous Scheme
Sammy can't get any attention from his girlfriend Dot because all she can think of is Charlie Chapli...
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Vanity's Price
Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goa...
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow ...
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The Still Alarm
Lucy Fay leaves her husband, Richard, a fireman, for a suave politician, Perry Dunn. Richard compens...
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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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Hubby’s Job
Hubby is out of work, and wifey is working as a stenographer, posing as a single woman, in an employ...
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A Blasted Event
Mrs. Kennedy tries to convince Edgar that he would make a good father....
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Nobody's Widow
Roxanna is married to British official John Clayton, but when she catches John in the apparent embra...
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Loops! My Dear
Harry joins the Army to meet girls, and ends up driving his drill sergeant nuts in the process. Whil...
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The Mask of Lopez
Attracted to ranch owner Doris Hampton, Jack O'Neil impersonates convict "Angel Face" Harry, who is ...
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What, No Cigarettes
There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and relucta...
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The Fatal Mistake
After being fired from his job on the Evening Star newspaper, cub reporter Jack Darwin (William Fair...
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All Aboard
Finding himself discharged from a shoe store job and the girl of his affections, May, Johnny gets aw...
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