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Charlotte Mineau
Charlotte Mineau (March 24, 1886 – October 12, 1979) was a tall and thin American film actress of the silent film, silent era appearing in 65 to 80 films. Biography Mineau appeared in 65 films between 1913 and 1931. She supported Charlie Chaplin on numerous occasions, and also appeared in several very early Laurel and Hardy comedies. One of her last screen appearances was with the Marx Brothers and Thelma Todd in ''Monkey Business (1931 film), Monkey Business'' (1931) where she appears as "Emily", a woman overheard by Groucho Marx, Groucho having an illicit affair on the veranda during the party scene. Her last known film appearance was in the Hal Roach two-reeler, ''Strictly Unreliable'' (1932), again with Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts, in which Mineau, credited as "Charlotte Meno", plays Todd's landlady, Mrs. Hawkins. Mineau was born in Michigan and died in Los Angeles, California. Partial filmography * ''Two Hearts That Beat as Ten'' (1915, Short) - The Nurse * ''His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Gribbon
Eddie Gribbon (January 3, 1890 – September 29, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films from the 1910s to the 1950s. Gribbon began working in Mack Sennett films in 1916 and continued through the 1920s. He usually had significant roles in two-reel films, but his roles in feature films were lesser ones. Gribbon was the brother of actor Harry Gribbon. Selected filmography * ''Salome vs. Shenandoah'' (1919) - Audience Spectator/ Soldier * ''Down on the Farm (1920 film), Down on the Farm'' (1920) (with Louise Fazenda and Harry Gribbon) - Banker's Henchman * ''Love, Honor and Behave (1920 film), Love, Honor and Behave'' (1920) - The Lawyer's Left-Hand Man * ''A Small Town Idol'' (1921) - Bandit Chief * ''Home Talent'' (1921) - Stranded Actor * ''Molly O (1921 film), Molly O''' (1921) (with Mabel Normand) - Danny Smith * ''Playing with Fire (1921 American film), Playing with Fire'' (1921) - Danny Smith * ''The Crossroads of New York'' (1922) - Star Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Floorwalker
''The Floorwalker'' is a 1916 American silent comedy film, Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Corporation film. The film stars Chaplin, in his traditional Tramp persona, as a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager, played by Eric Campbell, and the store's floorwalker, played by Lloyd Bacon, to embezzle money from the establishment. The film is noted for the first "running staircase" used in films which is used for a series of slapstick that climaxes with a frantic chase down an upward escalator and finding they are remaining in the same position on the steps no matter how fast they move. Edna Purviance plays a minor role as a secretary to the store manager. Plot The store manager and the floorwalker are conspiring to rob the store's safe. Charlie enters the department store and annoys the staff with his antics, primarily taking a shave on the shaving product table. He has a fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparrows (1926 Film)
''Sparrows'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent drama film about a young woman who rescues a baby from kidnappers. The film, which was originally titled ''Scraps'', starred and was produced by Mary Pickford, who was the most powerful woman in Hollywood at the time. Plot Mr. Grimes and his wife operate a dismal "Baby farming, baby farm" near an alligator-infested swamp. Molly, an adolescent inmate and the oldest of their charges, attempts to provide the other poorly clothed, starving kids with loving maternal care. Most of the children are orphans. One mother sends her child a doll, but Grimes crushes its head and tosses it into the swamp. The children are ordered to hide anytime someone comes to the farm. When a hog buyer shows up, Ambrose, the Grimes' son, maliciously prevents Splutters, one of the children, from hiding. The buyer then purchases the boy from Grimes. Molly has promised the others that God will rescue them. When a boy asks why nothing has happened after a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Clothes
''Baby Clothes'' is a 1926 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 49th ''Our Gang'' short subject to be released. Cast * Joe Cobb as Joe * Jackie Condon as Jackie * Mickey Daniels as Mickey * Johnny Downs as Johnny * Allen Hoskins as Farina * Mary Kornman as Mary * Pal the Dog as himself Additional cast * Gabe Saienz as Tough kid * Bobby Young as Kid fighting Joe * Ed Brandenburg as Bellboy * Harry Earles as The midget * William Gillespie as William Weedle * Helen Gilmore as Joe's mother * Charlie Hall as Bellboy * Fay Holderness as Midget's guardian * Charlotte Mineau as Mrs. Weedle * William Orlamond as Rich uncle * Lee Phelps as man listening to Irish joke * Tiny Sandford as House detective * Rolfe Sedan Rolfe Sedan (born Edward Sedan; January 20, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was an American character actor, best known for appearing in bit parts, often uncredited, usually portraying clerks, train conductors, postme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happiness (1924 Film)
''Happiness'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by King Vidor and starring stage actress Laurette Taylor in one of her rare film appearances. The film is based on the 1914 Broadway play of the same name written by Taylor's husband J. Hartley Manners. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Jenny Wray, the sole support of her mother, obtains work in a modiste's shop. She is called on to deliver several gowns to Mrs. Chrystal Pole. Mrs. Pole, who is bored with life, becomes interested in Jenny's philosophy of happiness, and induces her to make her home at the Pole mansion. However, Jenny soon tires of it and returns to Brooklyn. She continues to cultivate the friendship of Mrs. Pole, who aids her in her efforts to have her own modiste's shop. Fermoy MacDonough, an electrician, falls in love with Jenny and they marry. In several years Jenny has a shop of her own and continues to spread happiness. Cast Production ''Happiness'' marked the second and final ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Extra Girl
''The Extra Girl'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and starring Mabel Normand.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Extra Girl'' at silentera.com Produced by , ''The Extra Girl'' followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about , such as 's '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is An Awful Thing
''Love Is an Awful Thing'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Heerman and starring Owen Moore Owen Moore (12 December 1886 – 9 June 1939) was an Irish people, Irish-born American actor, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937. Early life and career Moore was born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland. A ..., Marjorie Daw, and Katherine Perry. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Anthony Churchill is to marry Helen after six months probation to convince her father Judge Griggs that he is a proper young man when Marion turns up some of Anthony's old love letters. To put her off, Anthony assumes the role of a married man with six children, but Marion discovers the hoax. Helen runs into a scene with Anthony with his made-up family. Complications ensue and it appears that the marriage will be wrecked when it is discovered that Marion is married to her attorney and the two were involved in hatching a blackmail sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love, Honor And Behave (1920 Film)
''Love, Honor and Behave'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ... directed by F. Richard Jones and Erle C. Kenton and starring Ford Sterling, Phyllis Haver and Marie Prevost.Walker p.109-13 Plot Cast References Bibliography * Brent E. Walker. ''Mack Sennett’s Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel''. McFarland, 2013. External links * 1920 films 1920 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films Films directed by Erle C. Kenton Films directed by F. Richard Jones American black-and-white films First National Pictures films 1920s American films English-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Of The Corners
''Carolyn of the Corners'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Robert Thornby, and starring Bessie Love, Charles Edler and Charlotte Mineau. The screenplay by Frank S. Beresford was based on the 1918 novel by Ruth Belmore Endicott. The film is presumed lost. Plot Young Carolyn May Cameron (Love), is orphaned when her parents are lost at sea. She and her dog Prince leave the family's Harlem flat to go to live with her uncle Joe (Edler) in Maine. She becomes friends with her uncle's former fiancee, Amanda (Mineau), and slowly helps repair their relationship. While visiting an ill friend, Carolyn and Amanda are trapped in a forest fire. Joe rescues them, and he and Amanda fall back in love. They get married, and Carolyn decides to return to Harlem. Once home again, she is overcome by sadness, but is interrupted by her parents, who were not actually lost at sea. Cast * Bessie Love as Carolyn May Cameron * Charles Edler as Joe Stagg * Charlotte Mineau as Ama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Climbs The Heights
''Rosemary Climbs the Heights'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Mary Miles Minter, Allan Forrest, and Margaret Shelby. It is the only one of Minter's feature films not listed in the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Database, making its survival status difficult to ascertain. Plot As described in film magazine Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines whi ... reviews, Rosemary Van Voort (Minter) is a girl with a talent for woodcarving, who lives in the Catskill mountains with her aging parents (Periolat and Wright). One day, she meets a group of artists on a trip from New York. Impressed with her skills, they persuade Rosemary to return to New York with them to pursue her art. One of these artists, the violinist Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Street (1917 Film)
''Easy Street'' is a 1917 short action-comedy film starring and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Plot In a slum area called Easy Street, the police are failing to maintain law and order. The Tramp, The Little Tramp, a down-and-out derelict, is sleeping rough outside the Home mission society, Hope Mission near the streets of a lawless slum. The sounds of a service in progress draws him wearily inside. After the sermon from the preacher, he is entranced by a beautiful mission worker and organist and he stays after the service. Holding his hand, she pleads him to join the mission, inspiring his religious "awakening". He vows to reform, returning the collection box that he slipped into capacious pants. Spotting a help-wanted ad for a job at the police station, the Tramp accepts and is assigned the rough-and-tumble Easy Street as his beat (police), beat. Upon entering the street he finds a bully roughing up the locals and pilfering their money. The Tramp gets on the wrong side of the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rink (film)
''The Rink'', a silent film from 1916 in film, 1916, was Charlie Chaplin's eighth film for Mutual Film Corporation, Mutual Films. The film co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell (actor), Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, and Albert Austin, and is best known for showcasing Chaplin's roller skating skills. Chaplin's obvious skill on roller skates surprised many of his fans, but Charlie was an experienced performer. As a touring vaudevillian with Fred Karno's pantomime troupe, Chaplin appeared in a roller-skating skit in which he displayed a talent for comedic falls—and the ability to cause other skaters to topple. Plot Charlie is an inept and sometimes clumsy waiter at a restaurant. He is serving one of his customers, the hot-tempered Mr. Stout. Charlie determines his bill by examining what he has spilled on his suit. While he is not a great server, Charlie is an excellent skater at the nearby roller rink. He meets a girl there and saves her from the unwanted attentions of the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
