A profile of Charlie Chaplin, most noted for his lovable "Little Tramp," from his childhood in England through his early...
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1981
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This 60-minute pastiche of silent film footage is narrated by humorist Henry Morgan. While the producers clearly worship...
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1968
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy),...
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1959
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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1928
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The silent era's foremost comedienne, Mabel Normand, plays a taxi dancer in this 2-reel farce produced by Hal Roach. In order...
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1926
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There are a couple of different stories about why Hal Roach signed Mabel Normand to star in films for him. Some say it was...
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1926
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Mabel Normand's last feature-length film is also one of her most entertaining. Sue Graham (Normand) lives in the tiny hamlet...
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Sue Graham
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1923
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Comedienne Mabel Normand was in the middle of production for this comedy-drama when William Desmond Taylor was murdered. She...
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Suzanna
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1922
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The Goldwyn studios had apparently been hanging onto this Mabel Normand comedy for quite a while -- by the time it was...
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1922
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This picture should have been called "What Happened to Mabel?" Mabel Normand's comedy pictures for Goldwyn had slowly been...
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1921
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This comedy-drama marked Mabel Normand's return to producer Mack Sennett after making a number of mediocre films for Samuel...
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Molly O'
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1921
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1919
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The Pest is one of the seemingly endless Cinderella-type stories that comedienne Mabel Normand did for Goldwyn. This time...
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1919
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This volume on the history of cinema contains early, short, silent films - mostly before 1920 - including: Melies'...
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1919
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1919
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Comedienne Mabel Normand came a cropper trying to play it straight in the WWI propaganda piece Joan of Plattsburg. Inspired...
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1918
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Mickey was comedienne Mabel Normand's first full-length feature film and it was perhaps her finest moment. Normand is Mickey,...
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Producer, Mickey
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1918
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It seems like Goldwyn advertised every picture starring Mabel Normand by crowing that she had returned to the slapstick...
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1918
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1918
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1916
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This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature...
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1916
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One of the best of the Keystone comedies, the three-reel Fatty and Mabel Adrift is an excellent film by any standards, as...
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1916
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1916
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This Keystone 2-reel comedy was also distributed under its working title, The Lure of Broadway. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, who...
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1916
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Running four reels, My Valet was comedy producer Mack Sennett's contribution to the first Triangle Films program, which...
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1915
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1915
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin...
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Mabel, his Girl Friend
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1914
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1914
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In his 19th film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin plays a somewhat more sympathetic role as the husband of comedienne...
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Screenwriter
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1914
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Director, Screenwriter, Mabel
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1914
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1914
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1914
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In his 32nd film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin is a married man, an unusual state for his film character. His wife, played by...
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1914
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1914
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Chaplin's 16th film for Keystone is the only Chaplin film thought to be lost. What we know of its plot comes from the movie...
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Director, Mabel
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's penultimate Keystone comedy takes us back to the scene of so many of his Keystones, Westlake Park. It is...
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1914
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 30th Keystone comedy is again set at the auto races, as were his earlier films, Kid's Auto Race,...
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1914
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In Charlie Chaplin's fifth Keystone comedy we get a look inside the famous laugh factory. Charlie is a movie fan and we first...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 15th comedy for Keystone is another violent park farce. It is the only teaming of this quartet of Keystone...
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1914
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 12th film for the Keystone company was also his directorial debut, receiving co-directing credit with...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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1913
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This Keystone half-reel comedy is "distinguished" by some of the most outrageous racial stereotypes ever preserved on...
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1913
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1913
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Too busy with administrational matters to direct all the Keystone releases of 1913, Mack Sennett assigned the direction of...
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As was often the case in the Keystone comedies, "love" and "pain" are virtually interchangeable in this half-reel farce....
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This is a prime example of the way Keystone mixed real life with comic mayhem. Real racecar drivers Teddy Tetzlaff and Earl...
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1913
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1913
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Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is an early example of a sports celebrity trying to use his fame in motion pictures. In the...
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1913
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1911
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