Dot Farley

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From Wikipedia Dot Farley (February 6, 1881 – May 2, 1971) was an American film actress. She appeared in 280 films between 1910 and 1950. Mainly known for her roles in short comedies, prolific with Mack Sennett in the silent days; she was later notable as the Mother-in-law of Edgar Kennedy in most of his series of short films at the RKO studios. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in South Pasadena, California. Born : 5th-Feb-1881

Movie Credits

Getting a Raise

First in a series of shorts based on J. P. McEvoy's Tuttle Family characters. Pa Tuttle (Lucien Littlefield), with three kids to feed, strives to talk his skin-flint boss, (Dell Henderson), of a raise. Boss has an attitude that faithful employees should be happy just to be working for him.
Released : 17th-Feb-1930

Love Your Neighbor

After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
Released : 12th-Oct-1930

Radio Kisses

Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.
Released : 4th-May-1930

Swell People

A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.
Released : 24th-Aug-1930

Young April

Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
Released : 11th-Oct-1926

Why Leave Home?

Fox musical.
Released : 1st-Oct-1929

The Rural Third Degree

Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The bride samples it in Si's absence, and being unaccustomed to drink, is overcome and falls on the table in a stupor. Si discovers her just as a party of neighbors are coming to congratulate the young couple and hides her in the yard, laying her on a bench. An inquisitive visitor finds her and reports to the constables that Si has killed his wife, and he is apprehended.
Released : 6th-Mar-1913

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

A Rented Riot

While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.
Released : 7th-Nov-1937

Fixing a Stew

Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until he decides to sober up permanently.
Released : 2nd-Nov-1934

Brooding Eyes

Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out about this, they conspire to cheat her out of her inheritance by passing off one of the gangster's girlfriends as the real daughter. Unbeknownst to the gang, however, their leader isn't dead and finds out what they're up to. Complications ensue.
Released : 15th-Mar-1926

Rugged Water

After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
Released : 17th-Aug-1925

Astray from the Steerage

While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
Released : 23rd-Apr-1921

A Punch in the Nose

A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1926

The Girl from Everywhere

Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
Released : 11th-Dec-1927

The Bicycle Flirt

Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother, Henry, puts pressure on his sister to leave Billy, telling her to find a man who is more industrious.
Released : 18th-Mar-1928

The Girl from Nowhere

Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.
Released : 5th-Aug-1928

Hubby's Weekend Trip

Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.
Released : 1st-Nov-1928

The Stranger from Arizona

A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers.
Released : 22nd-Sep-1938

Giggle Water

Edgar Kennedy and family builds a boat.
Released : 27th-Jun-1932

Peril of the Plains

The first Warner Brothers production. The production was shot in St. Louis, Missouri.
Released : 16th-Sep-1912

Calling Hubby's Bluff

Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky
Released : 3rd-Feb-1929

Love Past Thirty

When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.
Released : 14th-Feb-1934

A College Chicken

A College Chicken tells the story of a chicken that is stolen multiple times.
Released : 3rd-Aug-1910

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923
Released : 8th-Jul-1923

Pitfalls of a Big City

Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
Released : 2nd-Sep-1923

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

Weak But Willing

Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal, including a seductive Jean Harlow who tries to pick him up.
Released : 14th-Dec-1929

Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.
Released : 30th-Jul-1925

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

Harmony at Home

This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.
Released : 12th-Jan-1930

Murphy's I.O.U.

Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's jewelry. She thinks she has been robbed and reports the matter to the police lieutenant. Amusing complications result in which Murphy's duplicity is exposed, and his wife administers punishment for his offense.
Released : 17th-Apr-1913

Good Housewrecking

Edgar Kennedy and his family open a home decorating service, even though they have no clue what they are doing. The day of their first job, they make the mistake of going to the wrong house. The man of the house is not pleased with all the noise they are making and spends most of his time punching Edgar throughout the film.
Released : 15th-Jun-1933

False Pretenses

A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
Released : 21st-Oct-1935

His Chum the Baron

Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
Released : 28th-Apr-1913

Algy on the Force

Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a frock coat. A woman reports the theft of her watch by a thief with a soft hat and a frock coat and Algie goes out looking for the thief. He meets the chief of police and arrests him after a chase and a fight, and handcuffs his prisoner to a telegraph pole while he goes for assistance. The Captain's consternation can be imagined when he arrives with his men and finds his chief a prisoner.
Released : 5th-May-1913

The Paperhangers' Revenge

Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
Released : 30th-Apr-1918

The Little Irish Girl

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.
Released : 6th-Mar-1926

Will Power

Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a fake heart attack. Then, while he is supposed to be recovering, he taps into a source of mystical will power to do the rest.
Released : 5th-Mar-1936

Traffic Tangle

A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.
Released : 2nd-Nov-1930

Torchy's Kitty Coup

Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
Released : 22nd-Jan-1933

Too Many Wives

An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Released : 9th-Apr-1937

Wrong Direction

Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) gets a call from the studio to come in and direct the last scene of a film in production. But, before he can leave the house, his wife Florence (Florence Lake) and her Mother (Dot Farley) make him dress the part with riding breeches, a beret, an ascot, a crop and riding boots, and this rig is met with much derision by both cast and crew when he arrives at the studio. Carol (Jean Fontaine), the star of the movie doesn't want Edgar as the director and makes things difficult for him, especially after she hears the producer (Nat Carr) tell him he is limited to making no more than two shots on any scene. Meanwhile, Florence, Mother and Brother (Billy Eugene)decide to drop in on the set and watch Edgar at work. Because of his relatives or Carol, Edgar is forced to shoot the same scene over and over.
Released : 18th-May-1934

The Signal Tower

A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
Released : 19th-Jul-1924

He Trumped Her Ace

He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.
Released : 23rd-Mar-1930

A Woman of the World

A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
Released : 28th-Dec-1925

Wine

Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.
Released : 13th-Nov-1913

Fatty Joins the Force

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
Released : 23rd-Nov-1913

Some Nerve

Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
Released : 25th-Dec-1913

Slander House

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Released : 4th-Oct-1938

Road to Paradise

Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
Released : 20th-Jul-1930

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