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The Skeleton

Apr 20, 1914

0h 20m

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Two friends, Tad and Jack, are conversing with each other at the Club, when Dr. Matthews, the wealthiest man in town, enters. In contemplating the rich man, the two young men speculate as to whether or not, with all his wealth, he is happy. The argument leads them to a wager. Tad bets $1,000 that there is something in the physician's life he would hate to have known, and that as a consequence he is unhappy. Jack accepts the bet.

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Jack - the Young Husband

Wallace Reid

Jack's Wife

Dorothy Davenport

Phil Dunham

William Wolbert

The Pirate Chief and his Flunky are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen and he makes the Pirate work for him. The Pirate connives with the Councillor and the Flunky is captured. But the Pirate is also captured and given his choice of marrying the Queen or death in a boiling pot. The Flunky escapes in a boat. The Pirate chooses getting boiled over marrying the Queen. A stick of dynamite is placed under the pot and blows the Pirate onto the boat with the Flunky.

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Pirates Bold

Jun 15, 1915

Waldo and the baby went on an outing to the beach with the nurse, but it mattered little to Waldo, who consumed much learning from his book, wherever he went or wandered. Nurse went off with the auto driver and left the studious one in charge of the baby. That gave Bob and Tilly a chance to make their innings. Bob was a pirate chief and his crew was Tilly and two black slaves, Rastus and Dave, thrown in. Waldo would not think of playing pirates, but he became part of the game all right. They bound him in their pirate cave and sailed away for the sea with the baby. But the pirate brig was a leaky motor boat that ran away out to sea. Bold pirates became frightened ones when the runaway boat also began to leak, but when the nurse returned and found what her neglect had led to, assistance was soon sent to the pirates.

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Jilted

May 14, 1912

Age old tale of a couple marooned.

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Dottie's New Doll

Jun 4, 1912

Dottie was very proud of her great big beautiful doll but sometimes they are in danger of getting broke. And that was what happened to "Beautiful Bess" and it nearly broke her mother's tiny heart.

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Man Bait

Jan 18, 1927

Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught her how to handle any situation. A small adventure with her boss leads to her getting fired. She takes a job as a taxi-dancer in a dime-a-dance joint, and meets and falls in love with a rich playboy, Jeff Sanford, and he with her. Jeff is now faced with convincing his society-parents that he has made a wise choice.

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Hick Manhattan

Sep 1, 1918

This story revolves around a young woman who loses her job and a young man who has been unable to make a success as an art photographer. A fire breaks out in the house where the woman is rooming, and she rushes to the street en dishabille, just as the man appears. Immediately he has visions of a fortune, and persuades her to pose as a wild Greek girl. He has her arrested for performing Grecian dances in the street in her scanty attire.

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Romance and Brass Tacks

Sep 29, 1918

Second release in James Montgomery Flagg's 'Sweethearts and Wives' series of short comedies.

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Independence, B'Gosh

Dec 8, 1918

A middle-aged couple find their rural lives in disarray when they inherit eighty-nine million dollars. One of James Montgomery Flagg's 'Sweethearts and Wives' series of short comedies.

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Chumps

Jan 16, 1912

Bunny and Marsh attend a show and both fall in love with a charming danseuse.

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Jean Intervenes

Jan 23, 1912

"Love me, love my dog," does not appeal to Billy Hallock. He is very jealous of his wife's attentions to her dog "Jean."

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The Telephone Girl

Mar 2, 1912

Marion, the telephone switch operator in a large factory, sticks to her post, notifying the different departments during the burning of the building. The fire department, of which Jack Watson, to whom Marion is engaged, is a member, received the alarm. Hastily the fire laddies get into their clothes and rush to the scene of conflagration. Everyone has escaped except Marion. Jack hears this, and tears himself away from his comrades, at the peril of his life, he dashes into the building and rescues his sweetheart. He drops with his precious and unconscious burden, exhausted, to the ground. They are each taken to their homes. When both are conscious, they are allowed to telephone each other, and their wedding day is set.

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The Village Choir

Mar 17, 1913

The choir practices and the quartette, driven to desperation by the frequent false notes played by the near-sighted organist, complain. He leaves in a huff. The minister tells them that his daughter will be on hand next Sunday and will play for them. Mary arrives. She is introduced to the quartette who, during the week days, sow seeds and plow. The minister is writing a sermon when the deacon enters and demands the payment of the mortgage on the church. He is insistent, but promises to wait upon meeting Mary, when his heart melts at the sight of her loveliness.

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Loaded Dice

Mar 28, 1925

Dice Allen is a square-playing gambler who falls in love with a girl whose father gambles away their ranch. He uses his skill at cards to win back the money but is robbed and beaten and suspected by the girl. Finally, learning the truth, she goes to Dice for help, and he enters his own horse in a race and wins enough money to save the ranch.

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The Leading Lady

Apr 18, 1911

"The Irish Washerwoman" is to be produced by Manager Mathew Talon. The cast is all engaged but the leading lady.

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The Reporter

Jun 26, 1911

The editor of the "Rising Sun," angry at a scoop of a rival paper, instructs his reporter to write up "How it Feels to Be a Burglar."

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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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The Amazons

Aug 17, 1917

Three sisters, all raised as boys, have trouble fitting into male-dominated society.

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Manželka něco tuší

Oct 14, 1938

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Avenging Bill

Aug 31, 1915

Lucy works for the Grouch family, and is used to being overworked and abused. But when Mr. Grouch punches her sweetheart, Bill, she has had enough. She grabs a knife and chases Mr. Grouch until he apologizes to Bill.

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