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Synopsis: A profile of Charlie Chaplin, most noted for his lovable "Little Tramp," from his childhood in England through his early career in vaudeville to his stardom in Hollywood. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This 60-minute pastiche of silent film footage is narrated by humorist Henry Morgan. While the producers clearly worship Buster Keaton, they are confined to public domain material, so many of Keaton's best efforts, notably Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator, are absent. The clips from Keatons Read More
Synopsis: The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of Comedy, When Comedy was King, and Days of Thrills and Laughter) is, amazingly, almost as full and fresh as those earlier efforts, containing highlights from such silent comedy Read More
Synopsis: Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy), When Comedy Was King covers the years 1914 to 1929. Using snipettes from the 1929 Charley Chase 2-reeler Movie Night as a framing device, Youngson offers vintage clips from the Read More
Actors: Steve Allen, Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Donald Novis, Gloria Swanson, Mabel Normand
Synopsis: Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied together by a thin continuity wherein TV host Steve Allen hopes to boost his ratings by screening excerpts from Sennett's silent and talkie two-reel comedies. Among the Read More
Synopsis: These vintage silent comedies from Mack Sennett include A Strong Revenge (1913) A Sea Dog's Tale (1926), Sailor, Beware (1927) and The Channel Swimmer (1928). ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: There are a couple of different stories about why Hal Roach signed Mabel Normand to star in films for him. Some say it was because Roach felt there was still life in the comedienne. But F. Richard Jones, the studio's supervising director, who had worked with Normand during her days with Mack Read More
Synopsis: The silent era's foremost comedienne, Mabel Normand, plays a taxi dancer in this 2-reel farce produced by Hal Roach. In order to impress one of her customers, a wealthy young man (Theodore Von Eltz), Mabel pretends to live in a mansion, a minor fib which leads to the expected confusion. Co-written Read More
Actors: George Nichols, Anna Hernandez, Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, Vernon Dent
Synopsis: Mabel Normand's last feature-length film is also one of her most entertaining. Sue Graham (Normand) lives in the tiny hamlet of River Bend. When her parents (George Nichols and Anna Hernandez) refuse to let her marry her sweetheart, Dave Giddings (Ralph Graves), she enters a movie contest and Read More
Synopsis: The Goldwyn studios had apparently been hanging onto this Mabel Normand comedy for quite a while -- by the time it was released, she was already back making pictures for Mack Sennett. Considering the jumbled mess that reached the theaters, the studio may have had good reason to hide it away. Read More
Actors: Mabel Normand, George Nichols, Walter McGrail, Evelyn Sherman, Leon Bary
Synopsis: Comedienne Mabel Normand was in the middle of production for this comedy-drama when William Desmond Taylor was murdered. She was the last person to see him alive, and the shock of his death, combined with stressful police interrogations, caused her to have a breakdown. Filming was halted for Read More
Synopsis: This picture should have been called "What Happened to Mabel?" Mabel Normand's comedy pictures for Goldwyn had slowly been going downhill, and this entry was pretty near the bottom. Mayme Ladd (Normand) leads a drab, lonely life as a shopgirl. One day she goes to a fortune teller, Madame Read More
Actors: Mabel Normand, George Nichols, Anna Hernandez, Albert Hackett, Eddie Gribbon
Synopsis: This comedy-drama marked Mabel Normand's return to producer Mack Sennett after making a number of mediocre films for Samuel Goldwyn. Normand plays one of her typical Cinderella turns, a lower-class Irish girl, Molly, whose father, Tim O'Dair (George Nichols) is a ditch digger. Molly is supposed to Read More
Synopsis: This volume on the history of cinema contains early, short, silent films - mostly before 1920 - including: Melies' Conquest of the North Pole; Linder's Man and the Statue and Max's Mother In Law; Drew's Auntie's Portrait; Normand's Mabel's Dramatic Career; Mix's An Angelic Attitude Sennett and Read More
Synopsis: Samuel Goldwyn took full advantage of Mabel Normand's past history with Mack Sennett when he signed her to his company -- Normand cranked out truckloads of subpar features for Goldwyn, who advertised nearly every one as Normand's return to Keystone-style comedy. Sis Hopkins, based on a stage play Read More
Synopsis: The Pest is one of the seemingly endless Cinderella-type stories that comedienne Mabel Normand did for Goldwyn. This time around, her character, Jiggs, was switched at birth with another child, and as a result, she has grown up in a poor, abusive family. Jiggs charms her way into the affection of Read More
Synopsis: In her fifth film for producer Samuel Goldwyn, elfin comedienne Mabel Normand was cast as bored heiress Stephanie Trent. Unimpressed by the crop of men on the Eastern seaboard, Stephanie heads to a remote forest community, adopting an assumed name and taking a job as the local schoolmarm. Here she Read More
Synopsis: After a disastrous fling at "heavy dramatics" in Joan of Plattsburg, Mabel Normand sagaciously returned to comedy with Venus Model. Normand plays Kitty O'Brien, a low-level employee at a bathing suit factory. Despite her capricious on-the-job behavior, Kitty is handsomely rewarded when she submits Read More
Synopsis: It seems like Goldwyn advertised every picture starring Mabel Normand by crowing that she had returned to the slapstick persona that made her a popular Keystone star. Once again, that's not the case with Peck's Bad Girl, but at least it comes close. Normand plays Minnie Peck, a spunky tomboy whose Read More
Synopsis: Comedienne Mabel Normand came a cropper trying to play it straight in the WWI propaganda piece Joan of Plattsburg. Inspired by the legend of Joan of Arc, modern-day orphan girl Joan (Normand) becomes the "darling" of the Army training camp in Plattsburg, New York. One night, in emulation of her Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Mabel Normand, Wheeler Oakman, Lew Cody, Minta Durfee
Synopsis: Mickey was comedienne Mabel Normand's first full-length feature film and it was perhaps her finest moment. Normand is Mickey, a rambunctious and untamed orphan of the West. On his deathbed, her father left her and his mine in the care of Joe Meadows (George Nichols) and his Indian housekeeper Read More
Synopsis: This Keystone 2-reel comedy was also distributed under its working title, The Lure of Broadway. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, who also directed, is cast as a cook in a Broadway cabaret. In addition to his kitchen duties, Fatty is also the establishment's star performer, assisted by bartender Al St. John Read More
Synopsis: One of the best of the Keystone comedies, the three-reel Fatty and Mabel Adrift is an excellent film by any standards, as well as incarnate proof that Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was among the most talented comedy directors in the business. The film opens with a series of amusing tableux, as hero Read More
Synopsis: This Thomas H. Ince production contained enough plot, incidents and characters for three pictures. William Desmond stars as Prince Carl, ruler of a war-ravaged European kingdom. On the orders of pretender-to-the-throne Michael (Wyndham Standing), Carl is lured into a dank dungeon by Michael's Read More
Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature the hilarious Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. The titles include: Fatty and Mabel Adrift, Mabel, Fatty, and the Law, Fatty's Tin-Type Tangle, and Our Congressman. The Read More
Synopsis: Mabel Normand and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle are a married couple in this Keystone quickie. After a fight caused by his flirtation with the maid, Fatty and Mabel go for a walk through the park (actually Echo Park in Los Angeles, a frequent location for the Keystone troupe. The park still exists Read More
Synopsis: Running four reels, My Valet was comedy producer Mack Sennett's contribution to the first Triangle Films program, which debuted at New York's Knickerbocker Theater on September 23, 1915. Popular Ziegfeld Follies star Raymond Hitchcock headed the cast, with such Keystone regulars as Mabel Normand, Fred Mace Read More
Synopsis: Keystone Comedies is a collection of silent film shorts produced by the legendary Mack Sennett. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Charlie Murray
Synopsis: 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 magazines of the day. Apparently Charlie is the bandit who accosts a Count on his way to a society party and assumes his clothes, invitation and identity. He encounters rich Read More
Synopsis: In his 32nd film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin is a married man, an unusual state for his film character. His wife, played by Mabel Normand, complains that they have no money for new shoes for her or food for their baby. They have a fight and Charlie leaves, promising to bring a present home for Read More
Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin's penultimate Keystone comedy takes us back to the scene of so many of his Keystones, Westlake Park. It is unusual in that it is a story of two married couples with wandering husbands: Charlie and battle-ax Phyllis Allen, and Mack Swain and Mabel Normand. Mack and Mabel, taking the Read More
Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin's 15th comedy for Keystone is another violent park farce. It is the only teaming of this quartet of Keystone stars. Chaplin, Mack Sennett and Mack Swain are all suitors for the attentions of Mabel Normand. Charlie comes upon Sennett (playing his "dumb rube" character) and Normand Read More
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Emma Clifton, Chester Conklin, Sadie Lampe
Synopsis: In his fourth film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin was assigned for the last time to Henry Lehrman, his first director at Keystone. It was Chaplin's first film with the ostensible star of the film, Ford Sterling, who had announced that he would be leaving Keystone for a more lucrative deal well Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin's 12th film for the Keystone company was also his directorial debut, receiving co-directing credit with co-star, Mabel Normand. Chaplin plays a waiter in a seedy cabaret who is always in trouble with his boss, Edgar Kennedy, and at odds with another waiter, Chester Conklin. While Read More
Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin's 30th Keystone comedy is again set at the auto races, as were his earlier films, Kid's Auto Race, Mabel at the Wheel and Mabel's Busy Day. However this time, as Chaplin scholar Harry Geduld suggests, it was likely shot at the Keystone studios with shots of the race intercut. Read More
Synopsis: In Charlie Chaplin's fifth Keystone comedy we get a look inside the famous laugh factory. Charlie is a movie fan and we first see him creating havoc at a theatre where he gets too involved with the action on the screen and the beautiful actress in the film. Ejected from the theatre, he proceeds to Read More
Actors: Marie Dressler, Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Mack Swain
Synopsis: This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin and his co-star Marie Dressler major stars. Chaplin plays a con artist (not the Tramp) who talks Tillie, an innocent country lass, into taking her father's savings and Read More
Actors: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Chaplin, Joe Bordeaux
Synopsis: Although better known as Charlie Chaplin's 17th appearance in a Keystone comedy, The Knockout is really a Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle film. The big event in Fatty's town is a prizefight in which champ Cyclone Flynn will meet all comers. Fatty is tricked into accepting the fight by two hobos who are Read More
Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin's 18th film for Keystone was likely co-written and co-directed by co-star Mabel Normand. It was shot entirely on location at an automobile racetrack during a racing event. Mabel plays a hot dog vendor who sneaks in to the track by bribing the cop who guards the gate. As soon as she Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Synopsis: In his 19th film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin plays a somewhat more sympathetic role as the husband of comedienne Mabel Normand. As so many of his Keystone comedies do, it begins in a park where Mack Swain, dressed in a sporty outfit and carrying a tennis racquet, leaves his wife seated on a Read More
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Chester Conklin, Mack Sennett, Harry McCoy
Synopsis: Mabel Normand wrote, directed and starred in Charlie Chaplin's 10th film for Keystone. After disagreements with the directors of his previous films, Sennett assigned him to Normand, but Chaplin was chomping at the bit to direct his own films so for this film at least, the Chaplin/Normand Read More
Synopsis: As was often the case in the Keystone comedies, "love" and "pain" are virtually interchangeable in this half-reel farce. Believing that his sweetheart has rejected him, a rubeish Romeo decides to shoot himself. Unfortunately, he misses, whereupon he elects to commit suicide with poison. Read More
Synopsis: This is a prime example of the way Keystone mixed real life with comic mayhem. Real racecar drivers Teddy Tetzlaff and Earl Cooper play themselves in this short flick. Ford Sterling plays the father who wants his daughter (Mabel Normand) to marry Cooper. Normand, however, is a Tetzlaff fan. With Read More
Actors: Barney Oldfield, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett
Synopsis: 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 early silent era, when movies were untested and to some extent disreputable, actors often appeared uncredited. As screen performers began to emerge as box-office draws, Oldfield Read More
Synopsis: This Keystone half-reel comedy is "distinguished" by some of the most outrageous racial stereotypes ever preserved on celluloid. It all begins when papa Ford Sterling refuses to consent to the marriage of his daughter Mabel Normand. To avoid Sterling's wrath, Normand and her boyfriend disguise Read More
Synopsis: This one-reel Keystone comedy was a takeoff of the old D.W. Griffith melodrama The Fatal Hour. When his attentions are spurned by heroine Mabel Normand, the villainous Fred Mace binds the poor girl in front of a grandfather's clock, which has been timed to fire a bullet from a rifle at the stroke Read More
Synopsis: Too busy with administrational matters to direct all the Keystone releases of 1913, Mack Sennett assigned the direction of Her New Beau to Henry "Pathe" Lehrman. Fred Mace heads the cast as a judge whose pocket watch is on the blink. Unbeknownst to Mace, his daughter Mabel Normand takes the watch Read More
Synopsis: Mary Pickford plays a fisherman's daughter who mends her father's fishing nets. A young man (Charles H. West) falls in love and proposes marriage to her. However, this man has done something to "dishonor" another woman (Mabel Normand). Mabel's brother finds out that the man will not marry his Read More
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