The Fickle Spaniard
A Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Mabel Normand & Fred Mace.
Mack Sennett
Dell Henderson
Casts & Crew
Mabel Normand
Fred Mace
Also Directed by Mack Sennett
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.
When Mabel Normand romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her nice suitor to appeal to racecar driver Barney Oldfield for help.
This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, especially at a gathering where Dr. Dudley Smith, accomplished musician, artist, sportsman, lecturer, world traveler, singer, dancer and worker of cross-word puzzles, is putting heavy moves on Helen, Bert's intended. Bert allows as how he'll do something special for her on her birthday coming up next month. The something special ...
A Rural Demon is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Eva Nelson.
Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
The Telltale Light is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
Seemingly every man is in love with Gladys (played by Mabel Normand). Wherever she goes, man start following her with much enthusiasm. Two men at the place her father works want to marry her...both send her letters asking for such. She accepts both! Her father finds out and decides to play a trick on her.
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand.
Here it is nice to see Sennett playing a different character than his usual hillbilly lover. Sennett looks quite dashing as the big game hunter. He's quite comically cowardly when the real big game shows up. Mabel is so calm and natural with the bear that she appears like a goddess or other worldly creature. She acts as if she's doing the scene with a cat or dog.
The movie begins with Tom carrying a ladder for an elopement with Helen. Unfortunately, as soon as Helen climbs down the ladder, her parents, played by Grace Henderson and Frank Opperman, come out armed, and Opperman chases Tom away.
Also Directed by Dell Henderson
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
Plot unknown.
The girlfriend of the son of a rich railroad tycoon, attempts to help him escape the clutches of his well-meaning, but over-bearing mother whilst encouraging her own father not to give up on his business, by instigating a staged kidnapping and black-mailing scheme.
Cyrus Braidwood has a secret. His daughter Helen isn't actually his daughter--her father is a murderer, and Braidwood has been raising her as his own because he has her father's written confession hidden. One day her father manages to get ahold of the confession. Helen shows up at his apartment looking for it, which culminates in her and a young man she meets there being taken prisoner by a criminal gang.
Bank clerk Vincent Forrest ( Edward Earle ) loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe ( Hedda Hopper ) and her provider, Van Merton ( Ward Crane ). Forrest's wife Ann ( Marjorie Daw ) begins an affair with Merton when she discovers that Forrest is infatuated with Madame Zoe. Ann loses heavily gambling, but Vincent soon realizes what is happening in time to save his wife and to restore her happiness.
In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist the sordid way of poverty and sin. The woman's indulged son, overcome by his weakness and debt, robs his mother. It is then the girl saves the home from disgrace.
The boss, a villain, intends to have the beautiful buttonhole-maker for his own. He fires her sweetheart, and by a flimsy pretense, gets Bertha alone with him in the factory. After many exciting scenes the hero rescues his love.
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bambrick.