Movies: Alice Day

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway lu...

A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them....

A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England....

The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game....

Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle acco...

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'....

In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing....

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her....

Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done....

Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter....

East of the Water Plug is a silent comedy....

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. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty...

Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a showgirl, Vivian Dale. His story of vindication swi...

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders....

Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance....

Kitty from Killarney is a 1926 comedy short....

A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses....

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey....

Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're gre...

The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer Philip Vantine (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 188...