Buster Keaton films
Starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton Release date Title Credited as Notes Writer Director Role April 23, 1917 The Butcher Boy Buster First film role June […]
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Fatty’s Spooning Days
Fatty’s Spooning Days (1915) aka Mabel, Fatty and the Law starring Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Harry Gribbon, Minta Durfee In Fatty’s Spooning Days, Fatty Arbuckle […]
A Sailor-Made Man
A Sailor-Made Man: idle playboy Harold Lloyd has to prove himself to Mildred Davis’ father to marry her. So he joins the Navy! Later, he […]
The Chaser
In The Chaser (1928) “philandering” husband Harry Langdon is ordered by a divorce court judge to swap places (and clothes) with his wife for 30 […]
Slipping Wives
In Slipping Wives, Priscilla is married to an artist named Leon. However, Leon is not showing much interest in her. So she hatches a plan […]
You Can’t Fool Your Wife
You Can’t Fool Your Wife (1940) starring Lucille Ball, James Ellison You Can’t Fool You Wife is a showcase for a young Lucille Ball’s comic […]
Lucy and Johnny Carson
Lucy, Kim and Craig finally con Harry into seeing The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. And Lucy ends up winning the “Stump […]
Convict 13
In Convict 13, golfer Buster Keaton is mugged by an escaped convict, who swaps clothes with him. And Buster’s taken to prison! And facing the […]
The Fool’s Prayer
The Fool’s Prayer, by Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) – a poem about a prayer, uttered by a court jester, that had an unexpected result
Ghost Crazy
In Ghost Crazy, carnival performers Shemp Howard & Billy Gilbert team with wacky chauffeur Maxie Rosenbloom try to save an heiress from murder