Woman-Proof

Oct 28, 1923

1h 20m

★ 0.0

At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.

Overview

At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Woman-Proof Trailers

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Cast

Tom Rockwood

Thomas Meighan

Louise Halliday

Lila Lee

Milo Bleech (as John Sainpolis)

John St. Polis

Wilma Rockwood

Louise Dresser

Dick Rockwood

Robert Agnew

Violet Lynwood

Mary Astor

Cecil Updyke

Edgar Norton

Uncle Joe Gloomer (as Charles A. Sellon)

Charles Sellon

Bill Burleigh

George O'Brien

Celeste Rockwood

Vera Reynolds

Colonel Lynwood

Hardee Kirkland

Wistful Wooer

Martha Mattox

Perscilla (Zasu Pitts) holds the mortgage on Milt's (Milburn Morante) home but says she will cancel it if Milt will make his son, Ebbie (Billy Franey), marry her. Ebbie refuses and is thrown out. He goes to the big city, saves a banker from being robbed by thugs in a park, and is given a many-jobs job in the bank. He meets and falls in love with Lillian (Lillian Peacock), the banker's daughter. In his night-watchman/janitor job he keeps a gang of safe-crackers from cleaning out the bank, is given a big reward and marries Lillian. He then returns home to spurn Perscilla, pays off the mortgage and demands the best room in the house for he and his bride.

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What the Butler Saw

Oct 1, 1924

Farce centered on a married man, Barrington (Guy Newall), who pretends to be single while his wife, Mrs. Barrington (Irene Rich), is traveling in America. Complications arise when a guest at a hydrotherapy clinic is bitten by a parrot and, in a fit of pique, encourages the bird to bite every other male guest at the facility.

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The Dream of a Moving Picture Director

Jun 5, 1912

The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is compelled to call the scenario writer to have a play written in an hour. The director summons his company and reads the play to them; then tells them to make up, while he gives his plots to the stage manager. Being weary, he falls asleep in a chair in the center of the stage and dreams the following: A young girl, employed in an office, falls in love with the head clerk. The boss is a black mustached villain, who is also in love with the girl.

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The Man from Mexico

Nov 2, 1914

A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.

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Minnie

Dec 1, 1922

Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father, a discouraged inventor who has been working on a wireless device. Subject to the sneers of her neighbors, Minnie "invents" a lover and sends herself letters and flowers. Her stepsister suspects the truth and threatens to expose her. Desperate, she claims an unidentified body at the morgue and tells a reporter that this is her lover, unaware that the body is that of a Chinese man. The absent-minded reporter sees her heart and forgets about the big story. After further disappointments in the invention, Minnie's stepmother decides to leave her father. Her father then has a success and becomes rich. At a celebration, the stepsister and townspeople are surprised when a new couple appear, which turn out to be the former reporter and his lovely wife Minnie.

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Bright Lights

Nov 15, 1925

Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city. There he will show Patsy that he can be just what he thinks she wants: a city slicker. But Patsy yearns for the simple pleasure of her country boy, Tom, and is shocked at what shows up at her door.

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A Train of Incidents

Jul 3, 1914

Two young people, Betty Browne and Billy, are set to inherit money if they marry, but each imagines the other as a rough cowboy and refuses; by chance, they end up on the same train with their chaperones (Miss Prim and Bunny), leading to mistaken identities, romantic confusion (as Bunny and Miss Prim fall for each other too!), and a hilarious mix-up before they finally discover each other's true identities at a station and fall in love for real.

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Kreivi

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Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments, i.e. the most flamboyant stunts – and he agreed.

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Seventeen

Nov 2, 1916

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.

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Kill Me If You Dare

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No More Women

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When Matt Moore was thrown over by vamp Kathleen Cliffford, he resolved to have no more women in his life. But he didn't take account of wealthy Mage Bellamy who is determined to pursue him until he marries her.

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Pirates of the Air

Jun 28, 1916

The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress discovered the workshop where the proprietor was having the model duplicated and she was bribed not to say anything about what she saw. She started out with the bribe money to buy some gewgaws for herself, but she got in the road of a passing auto. Unfortunately, the auto contained the young Secret Service agent.

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Count Your Blessings

Apr 23, 1959

Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.

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Fuss and Feathers

Dec 1, 1918

An uneducated young girl becomes suddenly wealthy and hires the disinherited son of an upper-class family to tutor her in the ways of society.

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All on Account of Checkers

Mar 29, 1912

Smith & Smith, publishers, in a letter, notify Professor Bernard that they will accept his latest story if he will alter the enclosed paragraph: "Marry me and I will do away with my wife as I did her father." The absent-minded professor leaves this paragraph on his study table while he goes to the store to secure some cloth for his wife. The Professor, however, is very absent-minded, and forgets his mission when he meets a group of firemen who induce him to play a game of checkers. In the meantime, Ellen, the cook, is having her troubles with the butcher boy, who brings liver instead of chops, as ordered.

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The Princess of Happy Chance

Sep 1, 1916

A princess avoids a forced marriage by changing places with her double.

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45 Minutes from Broadway

Aug 30, 1920

Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.

6.4

Throbs at the Desk

Nov 11, 1963

Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.