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Charley Chase

Charles Joseph Parrott (October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940), known professionally as Charley Chase, was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. Born Charles Joseph Parrott in Baltimore, Maryland, Charley Chase began performing in vaudeville as a teenager and started his career in films by working in film in 1912. Born : 19th-Oct-1893

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Dough and Dynamite

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Released : 26th-Oct-1914

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Mabel's Busy Day

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Released : 13th-Jun-1914

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The Masquerader

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
Released : 27th-Aug-1914

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Sons of the Desert

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
Released : 29th-Dec-1933

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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys

Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Released : 5th-Apr-1992

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Fluttering Hearts

Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retrieve a compromising letter.
Released : 19th-Jun-1927

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On the Wrong Trek

Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in with two vagabond hitchhikers.
Released : 18th-Apr-1936

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Call of the Cuckoo

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
Released : 15th-Oct-1927

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Thundering Fleas

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Released : 18th-Jul-1926

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His New Profession

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
Released : 31st-Aug-1914

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The Rounders

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
Released : 7th-Sep-1914

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His Musical Career

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
Released : 7th-Nov-1914

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Mabel's Blunder

Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Released : 12th-Sep-1914

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Accidental Accidents

Jimmy Jump gets rather wet.
Released : 9th-Nov-1924

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Bromo and Juliet

A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Released : 19th-Sep-1926

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When Comedy Was King

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
Released : 29th-Mar-1960

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Mighty Like a Moose

After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
Released : 18th-Jul-1926

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Kelly the Second

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
Released : 21st-Aug-1936

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4 Clowns

Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse. Charley Chase is hampered by hiccups and a female professor, and he fleeces a drunken Oliver Hardy with a mannequin in a nightclub. The third part finds bachelor Buster Keaton desperately trying to get married by 7:00 PM in order to collect a $7-million-dollar inheritance. Keaton is pursued by money-hungry prospects in one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. Narration is provided by Jay Jackson.
Released : 1st-Sep-1970

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Leading Lizzie Astray

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Released : 30th-Nov-1914

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Ambrose's First Falsehood

After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
Released : 12th-Dec-1914

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What Price Goofy?

Jamison has a very jealous wife. Mrs. Jamison has a very gossipy friend. When the friend spots Jamison on the street talking to an attractive young woman, she reports back to Mrs. Jamison that her husband is obviously having an affair. Mrs. Jamison storms out, and a few minutes later a guest arrives for a visit -- a Professor Brown. Jamison doesn't realize the professor is a woman, and Mrs. Jamison, who has returned, doesn't realize the woman is Professor Brown. She presumes she has caught her husband with his mistress. A dancing butler, a game-playing dog, and a very accommodating burglar complicate the situation.
Released : 6th-Jun-1925

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The 'Fraidy Cat

Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their father. He is terrified of Lem Tucker, who is his rival for the heart of Dorothy. Only when he mistakenly believes he is about to die does Jimmy find courage. But will it last?
Released : 29th-Mar-1924

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A Ten-Minute Egg

The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe."
Released : 19th-Jul-1924

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Hasty Marriage

It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.
Released : 16th-Dec-1931

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The Panic Is On

Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?
Released : 14th-Aug-1931

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Arabian Tights

Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
Released : 2nd-Jun-1933

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Whispering Whoopee

Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
Released : 8th-Mar-1930

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The Rat's Knuckles

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1925

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Innocent Husbands

Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
Released : 1st-Aug-1925

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His Wooden Wedding

A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
Released : 19th-Dec-1925

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The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy

Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along with clips from many of the shorts that made the duo stars, it includes clips from a 1918 comedy starring Laurel on his own as well as scenes from three shorts Hardy made in 1917 and '18 with his original comedy partner, Billy West. To put the duo's work in context, the film briefly features other comedians who worked with producer Hal Roach.
Released : 1st-Dec-1967

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Crazy Like a Fox

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Released : 26th-Aug-1926

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Forgotten Sweeties

Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.
Released : 10th-Apr-1927

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Young Oldfield

Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer.
Released : 22nd-Jun-1924

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April Fool

Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's Monday, April 1st and the paper's editorial staff has a great deal of trouble telling the difference between April Fool's jokes and real events.
Released : 18th-May-1924

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Long Fliv the King

This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
Released : 13th-Jun-1926

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Dog Shy

Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid getting married.
Released : 4th-Apr-1926

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Isn't Life Terrible?

Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
Released : 5th-Jul-1925

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A Versatile Villain

After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.
Released : 29th-May-1915

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Love, Loot and Crash

A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.
Released : 23rd-Apr-1915

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Tell 'Em Nothing

Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While explaining to one woman how to obtain a divorce by getting photos in a compromising situation...
Released : 16th-Oct-1926

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Now I'll Tell One

This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in the '90s. So half of the movie can be seen. It's a fast paced slapstick comedy with also a good comical story about a man (Charley Chase) who is being prosecuted for shooting his wife (Edna Marion).
Released : 4th-Oct-1927

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The Way of All Pants

A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
Released : 28th-Oct-1927

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The Glorious Fourth

It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
Released : 26th-Jun-1927

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Hollywood Party

Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending the party, they present a number of musical and/or dance performances to entertain the crowd. This set of performances also includes ethnic Chinese actress Anna May Wong modeling some fashions she brought back from her first ever trip to China. Through it all, one of the guests, already inebriated, is having a few problems mixing and serving the cocktails he wants.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1937

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Rough Seas

On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
Released : 24th-Apr-1931

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Girl Grief

Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.
Released : 8th-Oct-1932

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Too Many Mammas

Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.
Released : 12th-Oct-1924

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All Wet

Charley Chase has car trouble.
Released : 1st-Jan-1924

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Limousine Love

On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
Released : 13th-Apr-1928

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