Mack Sennett

Chaplin at Keystone (2012)

Charles Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian, and after a year, had not only established his Tramp character, learned to write and direct his own films, and also achieved public recognition as ...

Here We Go Again (1952)

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 ...

Down Memory Lane (1949)

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film. ...

Road to Hollywood (1947)

Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography. ...

Way Up Thar (1935)

This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features Buster Keaton's Mother and Sister, Myra and Louise, respectively. A very young Roy Rogers (billed as Leonard Sl ...

The Timid Young Man (1935)

Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears afte ...

Just Another Murder (1935)

A Mack Sennett directed spoof of murder mysteries. ...

Flicker Fever (1935)

A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there ...

The Barber Shop (1933)

An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of sartorial skill. ...

Dream Stuff (1933)

Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?), or is that just DREAM STUFF? ...

Uncle Jake (1933)

The Pharmacist (1933)

A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family. ...

Sing, Bing, Sing (1933)

After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again. ...

Caliente Love (1933)

Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Can he get for himself some CALIENTE LOVE at the Casino, or will someone give him the sound thrashing he nee ...

The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)

The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast. ...

Too Many Highballs (1933)

Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the ...

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife (1933)

A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages. ...

Hypnotized (1932)

A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist. ...

The Dentist (1932)

An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion. ...

The Giddy Age (1932)

A quirky short about Love and Liars. ...

Hawkins & Watkins Inc. (1932)

Beatrice De Vere (Daphne Pollard), a wealthy eccentric, owns a fabulous diamond that is coveted by others. Thusly begins a slapstick farce that involves two dumb New York cops, with cockney accents, a menacing butler who also tells fortunes, and a gorilla ...

The Loud Mouth (1932)

Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by s ...

Jimmy's New Yacht (1932)

A young lady is wooed by two men ...

Lady! Please! (1932)

Arthur comically pursues Betty much to her brother Vincent's displeasure. ...

Dream House (1932)

A 2 reel short directed by Mack Sennett and starring Bing Crosby. ...

The All-American Kickback (1931)

Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer. ...

One More Chance (1931)

Bing Bangs (Crosby) is a salesman for "Magic" washing machines and his demonstration of the machine at the beginning of the film results in disaster. Crosby later gains a transfer from Hoboken to California and he drives his wife Ethel and her Uncle Joe (w ...

Wrestling Swordfish (1931)

Wrestling Swordfish is a 1931 American short adventure film produced by Mack Sennett. In 1932, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (Novelty) at the 5th Academy Awards. ...

The Great Pie Mystery (1931)

A kidnapped girl thrown off a bridge. A mother's kiss. A father's kiss--and plenty of pies in the face. Who threw those pies? ...

Taxi Troubles (1931)

Cabbie gets mixed up with gangster's wife. ...

Blue of the Night (1931)

Starring Bing Crosby as himself in a short comedy/romance telling a tale of mistaken identity. ...

I Surrender Dear (1931)

A short musical comedic romance starring Bing Crosby as ... Bing Crosby. This 2 reel short was directed by Mack Sennett. ...

Poker Widows (1931)

Dance instructor Arthur Stone's wife, Gertrude Astor, is a jealous woman. Patsy O'Leary's husband, Wade Boteler, is a jealous man. Boteler goes out to play poker every night, so Miss O'Leary phones Stone for a private dance lesson at her apartment. When th ...

The Cannonball (1931)

Andy fixes his rocket invention to a locomotive in order to win a race with a bus. ...

The Fainting Lover (1931)

This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, ...

The Albany Branch (1931)

Pert Kelton and Tom Dugan star in this 1931 short directed by Mack Sennett, having a little dinner party. ...

Movie-Town (1931)

A Baron attempts to sell Mack Sennett and William Beaudine on the idea of casting his new prodigy in one of their films. ...

Monkey Business in Africa (1931)

When the story begins, an airplane flying over Africa runs out of gas and the filmmaker and his team are forced to bail out. Once on the ground, all sorts of hijinks occur...such as a fight with a crocodile and a guy in a gorilla suit. ...

Hold 'er Sheriff (1931)

A sheriff's daughter, and deputy sheriff, falls for a handsome stranger. who cracks a joke about robbing a bank. When a robbery then takes place, he must be the bandit--right? ...

Ghost Parade (1931)

A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor. ...

Crashing Hollywood (1931)

Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short. ...

The Bride's Mistake (1931)

A Marjorie Beebe short comedy where she ends up next to lunatic driver Vernon Dent among other weird situations. ...

Dance Hall Marge (1931)

Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to preserve her honor, and indeed her life. ...

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966. ...

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020)

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story ...

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger story, telling of the birth of the cinema itself. ...

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 (2002)

In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week. One and two reels in length, these works showed the filmmaker inventing, borrowing, and perfecting tech ...

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters. ...

Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard. ...

The Hollywood Clowns (1979)

Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history. ...

Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)

Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sk ...

It's Showtime (1976)

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors. ...

The Great Chase (1962)

A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences ...

Crazy Days (1962)

Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and more. ...

Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. ...

The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops. ...

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubl ...

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives (1951)

Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold ...

Down Memory Lane (1949)

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film. ...

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood. ...

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie M ...

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound. ...

Hollywood Boulevard (1936)

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to de ...

Movie-Town (1931)

A Baron attempts to sell Mack Sennett and William Beaudine on the idea of casting his new prodigy in one of their films. ...

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) (1931)

Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach. ...