Harry Langdon
Actor · 1884 – 1944 · Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
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.
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Movie10.0ComedyHarry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
Double Trouble
1941 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryRobert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · 2 votes
Movie5.0ComedyA modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Zenobia
1939 · 14 votes
Movie7.3ComedyRomanceAn heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
There Goes My Heart
1938 · 15 votes
Movie6.5DramaComedyA compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
When Comedy Was King
1960 · 11 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe 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 in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Movie5.0ComedyDocumentaryA compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
The Sound of Laughter
1963 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryAn appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicA 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.
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945 · 1 votes
Movie7.2ComedyWesternChester 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 catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress. Bill tries to eliminate Chester, so he and Hazel head down the mountain for other work. She waits tables and gets him a job as a dishwasher. He spills kerosene in the soup and then must serve it to an angry customer. Hazel tells a couple of tall tales about Chester, and soon all the customers, the owner, and the cook, think he's a desperado. They make him the saloon bouncer. Some trick shooting seals his reputation. Then Big Bill arrives for a showdown.
Boobs in the Wood
1925 · 4 votes
MovieMusicComedySongwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood.
Movie7.5ComedyThis short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943 · 2 votes
Movie7.6MusicRomanceA New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933 · 10 votes
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceLittle orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
Remember When?
1925 · 2 votes
Movie7.1DocumentaryComedyA compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957 · 14 votes
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Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
Cold Turkey
1940 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryTV MovieAmong 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 All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 · 1 votes
Movie4.4ComedyMusicFraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
All-American Co-Ed
1941 · 14 votes
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Absent-minded Harry mistakenly goes home to his neighbor's house. Unfortunately, his neighbor is a beautiful blonde with an insanely jealous husband.
Mopey Dope
1944 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyHarry 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 wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin. Inside, it takes him a while to figure out that he's among dummies. Then, two enterprising jewel thieves arrive to steal the museum director's priceless ruby. Cops are on hand as well: when the ruby goes missing, Harry may be the perfect fall guy. Can Harry stay away from the cops, foil the theft, and behave heroically in front of the museum director's daughter, the same woman whose purse he saved that morning?
Knight Duty
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyHarry, 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 like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his telescope and sends her by carrier pigeon a note that, alas, is received by the wrong party. The Girl marries and, poverty-striken, leaves her husband during a snowstorm. Harry takes her in, and minutes later her child is born. He works like a slave for the mother and child, pretending they are his own. Meanwhile, the husband finds her and comes to the shack on Christmas Eve as Harry is preparing to play Santa Claus. Not realizing the unhappiness she is causing him, The Girl thanks him profusely and leaves with her husband. Overcome, Harry sits overnight on the doorstep and the next morning is found frozen stiff except for his eyes--with amusing results.
Three's a Crowd
1927 · 7 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceA 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 has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
1926 · 17 votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaA pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.
A Soldier's Plaything
1930 · 9 votes
Movie9.0El 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 supposed to protect from him.
Defective Detectives
1944 · 1 votes