Charles Murray

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Charles Murray was an American vaudevillian and screen actor, as well as the director of five silent comedy shorts. Born : 21st-Jun-1872

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The Power of the Camera

Two convicts escape from the city jail and manage to elude their pursuers for quite a while, by contriving a fake motion picture machine and posing as picture producers. But, like many of us, they become over-confident and are finally apprehended by the guard.
Released : 17th-Mar-1913

Highbrow Love

Fred was no highbrow, but in spite of all her primness and learning, he fell for Mary's undoubted charm. One day he was handed this communication: "Dear Freddie: I am going to Box Springs to be quiet and alone with by beloved Samuel Johnson, Lovingly, Mary Highbrow." Jealous rage stirred Fred's bosom for his new found rival. He followed, blood in his eye. Mary, the highbrow, however, explained matters to both Fred and Blacksmith Johnson, but Fred at the time was a little worse off for his experience.
Released : 26th-May-1913

His Honor the Mayor

Charles Murray is running for mayor. Opponent Eddie Baker has a young woman go into his shoe shop and, while changing stockings, say things that will alienate the women voters; Baker tells her it's a practical joke, and he'll get her boy friend out of jail.
Released : 22nd-Mar-1930

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

Breaking the Ice

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
Released : 22nd-Sep-1938

The Silent Lover

Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.
Released : 21st-Nov-1926

Fools Highway

Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
Released : 1st-Mar-1924

The Head Man

Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
Released : 8th-Jul-1928

Paint and Powder

Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy Evarts (Theodore Von Eltz). Jimmy gets in a fight with an East Side tough and finds a wallet on him belonging to a big theatrical manager. Jimmy, however, is accused of being the one who stole it and is thrown in jail.
Released : 16th-Sep-1925

Maggie's First False Step

Maggie's First False Step
Released : 25th-Feb-1917

That Night

There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor, Trask and Murray, two entertainers, all race to her home with the idea of marrying her.
Released : 16th-Dec-1917

Percy

Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
Released : 5th-Apr-1925

Mismates

"Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the accustomed luxury and deserts his wife and child. On false information provided by the boy's mother and substantiated by himself the wife is sent to jail and the child kidnapped by the husband. This is where the drama kicks in.
Released : 26th-Jul-1926

The Wizard of Oz

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Released : 12th-Feb-1925

White Fang

Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
Released : 24th-May-1925

Soldiers of Misfortune

Soldiers of Misfortune
Released : 27th-Jul-1914

Such a Cook

Such a Cook
Released : 15th-Aug-1914

The Anglers

The Anglers
Released : 12th-Oct-1914

Stout Hearts But Weak Knees

Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Released : 24th-Oct-1914

Courting Trouble

When the story begins, Charlie (Charlie Murray) is fighting with his overbearing mother-in-law. The old battleaxe lives with Charlie and his wife and she orders Charlie about as if she's his wife. Charlie wants to go out to the lodge meeting with his pals...and the mother-in-law insists he stay home. An argument (which is way overdone) results but Charlie is able to get away thanks to a friend who pretends to be a cop.
Released : 28th-Oct-1932

Mabel's Married Life

Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Released : 20th-Jun-1914

Her Friend the Bandit

A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist.
Released : 4th-Jun-1914

For the Son of the House

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.
Released : 20th-Sep-1913

The Mothering Heart

A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beautiful woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his lady friend, remorse drives him to find his wife.
Released : 21st-Jun-1913

Red Hicks Defies the World

Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the champion, O'Shea, the fighting Irishman, to make soft putty of the world famous pugilist, but on the day of the fight there was no O'Shea. The supposition was he did not have the price: and other domestic difficulties interfered. O'Shea's trainer, however, solved the problem and Bed Hicks found his Waterloo.
Released : 9th-Jun-1913

The Crossroads of New York

A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
Released : 22nd-Jun-1922

Here We Go Again

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).
Released : 15th-Nov-1952

Hard Knocks and Love Taps

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.
Released : 24th-Jul-1921

My Son

A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New England fishing village.
Released : 19th-Apr-1925

Cinema Circus

Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
Released : 27th-Jan-1937

Luck

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
Released : 1st-Mar-1923

Sundown

Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Released : 30th-Nov-1924

Love and Bullets

Love and Bullets is a 1914 Comedy short
Released : 4th-Jul-1914

Fatty Again

Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the girl's parents. When the truth becomes known that he is really a sideshow barker, they again turn on him.
Released : 3rd-Oct-1914

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
Released : 15th-Dec-1915

Flickering Youth

Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
Released : 27th-Apr-1924

Her Painted Hero

A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
Released : 20th-Nov-1915

The Boob

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
Released : 17th-May-1926

The Plumber

This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues will not hold many surprises for those familiar with Keystone in this period, or, indeed, with the works of the Three Stooges, who often played inept plumbers. It is, nonetheless, very nicely performed, especially by Charles Murray who mugs it up freely and ineptly, as well as the pretty girl who plays the house's maid.
Released : 9th-Dec-1914

Clancy in Wall Street

Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners for twenty years; but when Clancy accidentally buys some shares on margin, MacIntosh's Scotch thrift rebels and their partnership breaks up. In the meantime, their children are in love...
Released : 14th-Mar-1930

Radio Dough

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
Released : 5th-Feb-1934

Circus Girl

A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Released : 1st-Mar-1937

The Hollywood Kid

A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
Released : 19th-Apr-1924

McFadden's Flats

Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock, meets and falls in love with McFadden's daughter Mary Ellen. McFadden, having increased his store of worldly goods, sends his daughter to a finishing school, to young Jock's dismay. McFadden also provokes frequent outbursts from McTavish, whose outlook on life is the antithesis of his own. McFadden's ambition to complete a flat building is well underway when he suddenly finds himself in financial straits; when McTavish secretly helps him out, all eventually works out well for the friends and the young lovers.
Released : 6th-Feb-1927

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Released : 1st-Jan-1942

Running Hollywood

Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Released : 27th-Jan-1932

Because of a Hat

Skelley buys a seat in the orchestra and determines to get his money's worth. No use. Mrs. Van Snoozeheim refused to remove her big hat. But it came off. Skelley did it. That started something with Mrs. Van Snoozeheim's escort. Over the stage they fought, and into the Rathbone Café, and into Higgin's saloon. He took them over to his arena. There were two rounds to the finish.
Released : 16th-Apr-1914

A Bath House Beauty

Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a charming and delightful dance. Unfortunately, the bathing beauty has a husband with pistols...
Released : 12th-Apr-1914

Where Hazel Met the Villain

Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen.
Released : 22nd-Apr-1914

The Cohens and the Kellys in Scotland

The Cohens and the Kellys travel to Scotland to buy plaid in the hopes that a prince will start a new fashion trend.
Released : 1st-Mar-1930

The Lady in Black

Behold in this film the villain up to his dirty work again, but if you watch the persistent young hero carefully, you will see him gallantly rescue the lady in black about to be burned at the stake, while at the same time he saved the fair heroine from the mad ambition of her father about to marry her to the dastardly ex-governor of Utah.
Released : 11th-Sep-1913

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