Bright Eyes

Dec 24, 1921

0h 18m

★ 0.0

Overview

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Mack Sennett Comedies

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Cast

Luke Larson the Oil Magnate

Ben Turpin

The Modest Maid

Phyllis Haver

The Nosey Butler

Billy Bevan

The Marriageable Daughter

Harriet Hammond

The Ambitious Mother

Dot Farley

The Nearly Bankrupt Father (as Budd Ross)

Bud Ross

The Fortune Hunter (as Jack Richardson)

John J. Richardson

The Golfer

Louise Fazenda

The Chef

Kalla Pasha

The Chauffeur

George O'Hara

Luke's Uncle (as Andy Anderson)

Dave Anderson

John and Flora meet at a ball, but neither can do these modern dances, so they sit out… and run into each other later at a dance studio. Bunny exudes his usual Pickwickian charm. Miss Finch gets involved in a nice bit of physical comedy when her gawkiness makes the dance lesson less than successful.

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Lend Me Your Wife

Nov 13, 1916

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There and Back

Aug 18, 1916

Hughie Mack, Eddie Dunn, and Frank Kingsley secretly leave their homes to enjoy a night out without their wives' knowledge. The wives find out about their husbands' escapade and decide to act. The wives employ a female detective to "vamp" the husbands, hoping to gather grounds for divorce. The rest of the short film details the ensuing comedic situations as the detective attempts to ensnare the men and they try to avoid getting caught.

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Name the Day

Aug 20, 1921

Snub Pollard and Marie Mosquini are to be married, with Ernie Morrison as their best man. It's the usual gag-filled Pollard one-reeler, with William Gillespie pointing out that if she wants to get married, he has a marriage license too.

6.0

Two-Time Mama

Jan 29, 1927

The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.

4.0

Bigorno fume l'opium

Jan 1, 1914

Bigorno gets a visit to his seaside estate from a traveler, who brings a monkey and bric-a-brac for his wife and mother-in-law, and some opium for him.

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A Bum Deal

Jan 1, 1935

In 1932, Michel Simon plays in "Boudu sauvé des eaux" under the direction of Jean Renoir. Three years later, he was again invited to don the clothes of the famous tramp on the sets of Boulogne.

6.5

Red-Headed Woman

Jun 25, 1932

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.

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Kiss Me Quick

May 5, 1920

Kipling had a prevision of this bird, when he wrote that famous line "HE'S A INDIA-RUBBER IDOT ON A SPREE!" Silent comedy short starring Clyde Cook.

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2.5

Les incohérences de Boireau

Jan 2, 1913

Boireau is sleeping in his bed, floating in the air, when a fire wakes him. So he takes his gun and shoots a fish down from the sky...

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Electrocution

Jun 1, 1904

No overview available.

6.9

The Cat and the Canary

Aug 20, 1927

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.