Movies: Florence McLaughlin

In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this time he's playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances (e.g. Mabel at the Wheel), the ones where Charlie...

The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy....

The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was ...

Ollie is a love-struck private who is drilled by his unsympathetic lieutenant at reveille. The colonel of the regiment wants his daughter to marry the lieutenant but she has her heart set on the chubby-faced Hardy, who himself is in love with another...

Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection....

A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on....

A 1916 silent comedy....

FRED'S FICTITIOUS FOUNDLING is part of a series of comedies produced and directed by Josh Binney and were made for the Florida Film Corporation at the Klutho Studios in Jacksonville....