Harry Langdon
Henry "Harry" Philmore Langdon (June 15, 1884 – December 22, 1944) was an American comedian who appeared in vaudeville, silent films (where he had his greatest fame), and talkies.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.303 |
Birthday | 1884-06-14 |
Place of Birth | Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA |
Also Known As | The Sad Clown, The Little Elf, |
1926
The Strong Man
6.1/23
A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never me...
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The Strong Man
1941
All-American Co-Ed
4.2/10
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for th...
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All-American Co-Ed
1960
When Comedy Was King
6.7/6
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
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When Comedy Was King
1933
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
7.5/8
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1939
Zenobia
4.6/12
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Zenobia
1926
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
5.8/16
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also ha...
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1927
Long Pants
5.5/11
Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long...
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Long Pants
1932
The Big Flash
4.5/2
Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer f...
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The Big Flash
1933
Knight Duty
0/0
Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wa...
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Knight Duty
1933
Hooks and Jabs
0/0
Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. Af...
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Hooks and Jabs
1933
Tied for Life
1/1
We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know he's a sweet guy because he sleeps with a photo o...
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Tied for Life
1933
The Hitchhiker
0/0
Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do,...
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The Hitchhiker
1925
Horace Greeley, Jr.
0/0
Horace jumps in a caravan car covered with a large tarp, only to discover that a band of hooded rebels are hidden under the canopy. He fights first wi...
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Horace Greeley, Jr.
1925
Remember When?
7/1
Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
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Remember When?
1925
Lucky Stars
7/1
Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
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Lucky Stars
1925
His Marriage Wow
5.5/3
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, o...
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His Marriage Wow
1925
Plain Clothes
7/1
Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000.
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Plain Clothes
1925
Boobs in the Wood
6.667/3
Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester ca...
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Boobs in the Wood
1935
Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!)
0/0
Love Honor and Obey the Law: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins in a 1935 industrial film intended to promote Goodrich Tires.
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Love, Honor and Obey (the Law!)
1935
His Bridal Sweet
0/0
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.
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His Bridal Sweet
1935
The Leather Necker
0/0
Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.
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The Leather Necker
1933
The Stage Hand
0/0
The story is set in the village of Oskaloosa, which is in Iowa -- Langdon's home state. A silent movie-style opening title informs us that the town ne...
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The Stage Hand
1930
A Soldier's Plaything
4.3/3
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.
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A Soldier's Plaything
1926
Saturday Afternoon
5.6/9
Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with...
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Saturday Afternoon
1926
Soldier Man
0/0
After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on.
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Soldier Man
1927
Fiddlesticks
6/2
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
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Fiddlesticks
1927
His First Flame
5.5/2
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is de...
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His First Flame
1924
All Night Long
7.5/2
Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.
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All Night Long
1924
The Hansom Cabman
5/3
Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married...
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The Hansom Cabman
1924
Picking Peaches
4.2/6
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers....
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Picking Peaches
1924
The First 100 Years
6.375/7
A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar. Out of...
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The First 100 Years
1925
The Sea Squawk
7/1
A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a three-star liner. Blackie Dawson, the uncrowned king of j...
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The Sea Squawk
1924
Feet of Mud
7/1
As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before mar...
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Feet of Mud
1924
His New Mamma
4.6/6
The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab....
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His New Mamma
1924
The Luck o' the Foolish
5.286/7
Harry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Har...
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The Luck o' the Foolish
1942
Beautiful Clothes
0/0
Harry Langdon lip syncs the title song and interacts with models.
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Beautiful Clothes
1935
Atlantic Adventure
5.5/2
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later,...
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Atlantic Adventure
1938
A Doggone Mixup
0/0
Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
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A Doggone Mixup
1933
My Weakness
0/0
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cou...
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My Weakness
1940
Misbehaving Husbands
5.2/5
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".
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Misbehaving Husbands
1944
Defective Detectives
0/0
El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are su...
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Defective Detectives
1935
I Don't Remember
2/1
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
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I Don't Remember
1944
Mopey Dope
0/0
Absent-minded Harry mistakenly goes home to his neighbor's house. Unfortunately, his neighbor is a beautiful blonde with an insanely jealous husband.
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Mopey Dope
1935
His Marriage Mix-up
0/0
Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess.
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His Marriage Mix-up
1927
Three's a Crowd
5.3/6
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children li...
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Three's a Crowd
2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
9/1
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of Al...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
1926
Ella Cinders
7/16
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of...
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Ella Cinders
1928
The Chaser
4.6/8
A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take...
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The Chaser
1930
The King
4.3/3
The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with guns,...
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The King
1930
The Big Kick
3.5/2
Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fe...
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The Big Kick
1938
There Goes My Heart
7.2/12
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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There Goes My Heart
1930
The Shrimp
0/0
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
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The Shrimp
1929
Skirt Shy
2/1
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.
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Skirt Shy
1930
The Head Guy
4/2
Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
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The Head Guy
1930
The Fighting Parson
0/0
Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.
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The Fighting Parson
1924
The Cat's Meow
0/0
Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
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The Cat's Meow
1944
Hot Rhythm
4.7/3
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break...
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Hot Rhythm
1933
Tired Feet
0/0
Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.
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Tired Feet
1938
Sue My Lawyer
0/0
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
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Sue My Lawyer
1924
Shanghaied Lovers
4.3/3
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
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Shanghaied Lovers
1941
Double Trouble
0/0
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidenta...
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Double Trouble
1940
Cold Turkey
0/0
Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
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Cold Turkey
1940
Goodness! A Ghost
0/0
Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play.
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Goodness! A Ghost
1945
Swingin' on a Rainbow
0/0
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
1961
Days of Thrills and Laughter
5.5/2
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
1943
Spotlight Scandals
0/0
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go...
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Spotlight Scandals
1942
House of Errors
0/0
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II f...
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House of Errors
1943
A Blitz on the Fritz
0/0
Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.
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A Blitz on the Fritz
1942
What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?
0/0
This Columbia short (production number 3431) has Harry Langdon and Elsie Ames billed above the title, but it is all Elsie Ames with Langdon and Monty...
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What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?
1942
Tireman, Spare My Tires
0/0
Harry picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a runaway heiress. Under threat, Harry agrees to help her hide by pretending to be husband and wife.
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Tireman, Spare My Tires
1944
To Heir Is Human
0/0
Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.
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To Heir Is Human
1934
Counsel on De Fence
1/1
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
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Counsel on De Fence
1943
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
0/0
Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
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Here Comes Mr. Zerk
1942
Carry Harry
0/1
After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds...
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Carry Harry
1942
Piano Mooner
0/0
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves...
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Piano Mooner
1943
Blonde and Groom
0/0
Harry's buddy comes over with his fiance. Harry's wife calls on the phone, hears a woman's voice and gets the wrong idea.
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Blonde and Groom
1945
Pistol Packin' Nitwits
0/0
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs.
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Pistol Packin' Nitwits
1929
Hotter Than Hot
0/0
Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.
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Hotter Than Hot
1924
Smile Please
5/3
Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. Fir...
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Smile Please
1925
There He Goes
0/0
1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.
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There He Goes
1928
Heart Trouble
0/0
No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent her...
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Heart Trouble
1934
Shivers
0/0
To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.
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Shivers
1945
Snooper Service
0/0
Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.
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Snooper Service
1944
Block Busters
0/0
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean i...
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Block Busters
1943
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
0/0
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1938
Stardust
4/3
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter...
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Stardust
1957
The Golden Age of Comedy
6.8/10
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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The Golden Age of Comedy
1929
Sky Boy
0/0
Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.
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Sky Boy
1929
Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
0/0
Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.
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Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
1930
The Gas Station
0/0
Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.
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The Gas Station
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
0/0
Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
1930
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
0/0
This short was included on the recently released Harry Langdon: Lost and Found collection. This entertainment show features various Hollywood stars an...
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
1953
Yesterday and Today
0/0
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Ye...
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Yesterday and Today
1924
Flickering Youth
0/0
Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
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Flickering Youth
2020
Disclosure
7.95/129
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...
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Disclosure
1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
0/0
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1930
See America Thirst
0/0
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
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See America Thirst
1963
The Sound of Laughter
2/1
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
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