James J. Corbett
Actor
Was a boxer.
Movies8
Movie6.3MusicIn Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.
Happy Days
1929 · 3 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.
Actors' Fund Field Day
1910 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDr. Budd is a New York physician specializing in "beauty". His business is successful but he is still plagued by money problems. One day he gets an idea--he obtains the coat-of-arms of a long-forgotten Italian noble family, the Bolognias, and uses it as his logo on his line of beauty products.
The Beauty Shop
1922 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DocumentaryJames J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
1894 · 43 votes
- Movie9.0ComedyDrama
Rev. Bradford seeks the health resort conducted by William Muldoon. "Kid Garvey," who has known Mr. Muldoon for many years, calls on his old friend. Rev. Bradford arrives and he chooses the "Kid" as his trainer, believing him to be one of the regular trainers of the institution. Garvey seeks an opportunity of breaking into "swell society" and requests that he be introduced by his right name, Frank Sheldon.
The Other Girl
1915 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DocumentaryThis legendary fight was filmed on March 17, 1897, using 63mm film that produced an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1. Using three adjacent cameras, Enoch Rector recorded the entire fight, simultaneously creating the world's first known feature film, as the resulting footage lasted over 90 minutes in length. About a quarter of the film survives today.
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
1897 · 27 votes
- MovieCrimeDrama
A gentleman burglar is a detective, which acts as a shield to his more shady pastime.
Movie9.0AdventureBob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the men guests make a slurring remark about his mother's appearance, and proceeds to punish him then and there, throwing the entire gathering into an uproar. Later in the evening he assumes guilt for a check which had been in reality forged by his foster father, in order to save the mother's feelings, but obtains a written confession from the guilty man for future use if necessary. Learning that he had been adopted from a foundling asylum in infancy, Bob decides to go to New York to see if he cannot learn his real name, which he understands begins with "Mor."
The Midnight Man
1919 · 1 votes