Anita Garvin

Anita Garvin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anita Garvin (February 11, 1907 – July 7, 1994) was an American actress and comedian who appeared in both silent and sound films. She is best known for her work with comedians Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase. Garvin was born in New York City.] Her two sisters who danced in vaudeville encouraged her talents. At age 12, she lied to an agent saying she was "almost sixteen" and got a job being a bathing beauty for one of Mack Sennett's stage shows. The following year she joined the Ziegfeld Follies. She took pride in being the only woman allowed to touch Will Rogers's ropes. She also appeared in Earl Carroll Vanities. Garvin went on tour with the musical Sally staying with the show for two seasons, then decided to stay in California when the tour left that stop in 1924. In Hollywood, Garvin began working for Christie Film Company's comedies. She recalled her co-star Bobby Vernon dropping butter on the floor onto which she stepped and tumbled, cementing her career as a comedian. Charles Lamont brought her over to work for Educational Pictures. In 1926, Hal Roach took her under contract, where she appeared in many silent films with Charley Chase, James Finlayson, and Max Davidson as well as playing occasional supporting roles in feature films. Standing around 6 feet tall, "her regal countenance and deadpan expression" made her the perfect comic foil. Roach later considered her "one of his finest actresses." Reflecting upon her frequent co-star Stan Laurel, Garvin observed: "One thing about Stan--with apologies to a lot of directors--they thought they were directing him. And they thought they were directing the picture. But Stan was the one...He was very clever about it. The director was never cognizant of the fact that he was not doing all the directing. Stan's mind was going all the time, always thinking of gags and things to do. The script didn't mean a thing." Garvin appeared in a total of eleven Laurel and Hardy films. In 1928, she was teamed with Marion Byron as a short-lived female version of Laurel and Hardy. Along with Edgar Kennedy, Byron and Garvin appeared in A Pair of Tights, an "acknowledged masterpiece."

  • Title: Anita Garvin
  • Popularity: 2.181
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1906-02-11
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Nita Garvin , Anna Frances "Anita" Garvin, Anna Frances Garvin
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  • 1926
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    Raggedy Rose

    Raggedy Rose

    5.5 1926 HD

    Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.

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  • 1926
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    Move Along

    Move Along

    6.2 1926 HD

    Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best,...

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  • 1927
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    Forgotten Sweeties

    Forgotten Sweeties

    3 1927 HD

    Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.

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  • 1927
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    Many Scrappy Returns

    Many Scrappy Returns

    1 1927 HD

    Many Scrappy Returns

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  • 1927
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    Never the Dames Shall Meet

    Never the Dames Shall Meet

    1 1927 HD

    Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.

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  • 1928
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    Imagine My Embarrassment

    Imagine My Embarrassment

    1 1928 HD

    Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short

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  • 1929
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    Off to Buffalo

    Off to Buffalo

    1 1929 HD

    Off to Buffalo is a comedy short

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  • 1929
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    Stepping Out

    Stepping Out

    5 1929 HD

    Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.

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  • 1931
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    Be Big!

    Be Big!

    6.9 1931 HD

    Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is...

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  • 1928
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    Their Purple Moment

    Their Purple Moment

    6.521 1928 HD

    The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys...

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  • 1930
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    Blotto

    Blotto

    7.2 1930 HD

    Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.

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  • 1927
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    Sailors, Beware!

    Sailors, Beware!

    6.9 1927 HD

    A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.

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  • 1927
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    Why Girls Love Sailors

    Why Girls Love Sailors

    5.9 1927 HD

    Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him....

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  • 1927
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    With Love and Hisses

    With Love and Hisses

    6.1 1927 HD

    Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.

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  • 1926
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    Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl

    Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl

    1 1926 HD

    Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon...

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  • 1930
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    Whispering Whoopee

    Whispering Whoopee

    6.2 1930 HD

    Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.

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  • 1927
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    Baby Brother

    Baby Brother

    6.3 1927 HD

    Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our...

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  • 1925
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    The Sleuth

    The Sleuth

    5.8 1925 HD

    Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations

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  • 1928
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    Fandango

    Fandango

    1 1928 HD

    Fandango, a short Lane made for Educational Pictures in 1928. It's pleasant enough, and amusing at times, as long as you don't require a plot or...

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  • 1936
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    Sleepless Hollow

    Sleepless Hollow

    1 1936 HD

    Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.

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  • 1933
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    Asleep in the Feet

    Asleep in the Feet

    1 1933 HD

    The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.

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  • 1932
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    Show Business

    Show Business

    6 1932 HD

    The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

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  • 1929
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    A Pair of Tights

    A Pair of Tights

    7.3 1929 HD

    Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors,...

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  • 1929
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    Going Ga-Ga

    Going Ga-Ga

    6.6 1929 HD

    Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to...

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  • 1931
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    Murder at Midnight

    Murder at Midnight

    5.4 1931 HD

    Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily,...

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  • 1938
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    Swiss Miss

    Swiss Miss

    6.2 1938 HD

    Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland,...

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  • 1929
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    Trent's Last Case

    Trent's Last Case

    1 1929 HD

    Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.

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  • 1925
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    In the Grease

    In the Grease

    1 1925 HD

    "IN THE GREASE" (1925) stars James Finlayson who must raise his kid by himself and also take over the unruly class room at the local schoolhouse.

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  • 1929
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    Our Modern Maidens

    Our Modern Maidens

    5.9 1929 HD

    Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic...

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  • 1929
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    The Single Standard

    The Single Standard

    6.2 1929 HD

    A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.

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  • 1924
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    The Last Man on Earth

    The Last Man on Earth

    6 1924 HD

    An epidemic has killed off all of the fertile men on earth, except for Elmer Smith, a hillbilly who lives out in a cabin in the Ozarks, when he is...

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  • 1928
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    Roaming Romeo

    Roaming Romeo

    1 1928 HD

    Belle-Hure and Horatio Babaorum escape from a Roman galley only to land in a Roman palace where they indulge in their antique antics!

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  • 1929
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    Movie Night

    Movie Night

    6 1929 HD

    A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

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  • 1925
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    Book Bozo

    Book Bozo

    6 1925 HD

    Jimmy Aubrey plays a book agent and on his rounds of selling is induced to substitute for a local fistic star. His adventures in the prize ring...

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  • 1925
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    A Dangerous Peach

    A Dangerous Peach

    1 1925 HD

    Al is the assistant shipping clerk. He plants himself on top of a mass of crates and fishes valises up with a line attached to a rod and reel. He...

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  • 1924
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    Bright Lights

    Bright Lights

    1 1924 HD

    A city chap, who as the result of a ducking, is forced to wear "rube" clothes. He meets a cabaret dancer who thinks to have fun by kidding him and...

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  • 1937
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    Topper

    Topper

    6.714 1937 HD

    Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

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  • 1930
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    Sally

    Sally

    6.8 1930 HD

    Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing....

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  • 1929
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    On With the Show!

    On With the Show!

    5 1929 HD

    With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the...

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  • 1927
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    Upstream

    Upstream

    5.8 1927 HD

    A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.

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  • 1940
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    A Chump at Oxford

    A Chump at Oxford

    6.84 1940 HD

    The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and...

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  • 1931
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    The Chiselers

    The Chiselers

    6.6 1931 HD

    Having been kicked out by their wives on a wintry night they attempt to smuggle their little dog into an apartment house where dogs are not allowed.

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  • 1931
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    The Skulls

    The Skulls

    6.1 1931 HD

    This Spanish language film was produced simultaneously with the filming of the two English language Laurel and Hardy shorts Be Big! and Laughing...

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  • 1927
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    Two-Time Mama

    Two-Time Mama

    6 1927 HD

    The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland)...

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  • 1928
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    Feed 'em and Weep

    Feed 'em and Weep

    5.2 1928 HD

    Anita and Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max's diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the...

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  • 1934
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    Merry Wives of Reno

    Merry Wives of Reno

    4.8 1934 HD

    Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

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  • 1928
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    From Soup to Nuts

    From Soup to Nuts

    6.5 1928 HD

    Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.

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  • 1927
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    The Battle of the Century

    The Battle of the Century

    6.8 1927 HD

    Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

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  • 1936
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    While the Cat's Away

    While the Cat's Away

    1 1936 HD

    Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.

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  • 1932
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    Yoo-Hoo

    Yoo-Hoo

    1 1932 HD

    James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.

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  • 1928
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    The Play Girl

    The Play Girl

    1 1928 HD

    When Madge, a clerk in a flower shop, is sent to a bachelor's apartment to deliver and arrange a bouquet, she discovers a guest, young and handsome...

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  • 1927
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    The Motor Boat Demon

    The Motor Boat Demon

    1 1927 HD

    There is a boat race going on.

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  • 1926
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    Creeps

    Creeps

    1 1926 HD

    Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. But their cousin, Anita, wants the...

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  • 1927
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    Hats Off

    Hats Off

    6.3 1927 HD

    Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly after several near misses. One would-be sale has them carrying...

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  • 1929
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    The Charlatan

    The Charlatan

    4.3 1929 HD

    A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great...

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  • 1929
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    Dynamite

    Dynamite

    6.2 1929 HD

    Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...

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  • 1940
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    Sunk by the Census

    Sunk by the Census

    1 1940 HD

    Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to...

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  • 1929
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    Red Hot Rhythm

    Red Hot Rhythm

    1 1929 HD

    A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.

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  • 1940
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    Bested by a Beard

    Bested by a Beard

    1 1940 HD

    Leon Errol disguises himself as a mystic, in order to fool repo men.

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  • 1927
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    Assistant Wives

    Assistant Wives

    1 1927 HD

    Slapstick film about two married couples.

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  • 1925
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    Fair But Foolish

    Fair But Foolish

    1 1925 HD

    The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off...

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  • 1926
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    For Sadie's Sake

    For Sadie's Sake

    1 1926 HD

    Chaos behind the scenes at a show.

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  • 1933
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    His Silent Racket

    His Silent Racket

    10 1933 HD

    James Finlayson manages to con Charley into becoming his partner in a failing dry cleaning shop that has been targeted by gangsters running a...

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  • 1929
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    Modern Love

    Modern Love

    1 1929 HD

    In order to keep her job, a young dress designer must keep her recent marriage a secret from her boss. An important client arrives from Paris and her...

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