Helen Carruthers
Actor · 1891 – 1925 · San Antonio, Texas, USA
Helen Carruthers (1892-1925) was an American actress. She signed a contract with Keystone Studios in 1913, starring alongside Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops. In 1915, she moved with Chaplin to Essanay Studios. After a depressive episode, she left acting in 1915.
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Movie5.7ComedyCharlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
The Masquerader
1914 · 75 votes
Movie6.2ComedyA womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914 · 85 votes
Movie5.8ComedyWhen a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.
Caught in the Rain
1914 · 50 votes
Movie6.1ComedyTwo drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
The Rounders
1914 · 73 votes
Movie5.7ComedyMabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Mabel's Busy Day
1914 · 45 votes
Movie5.7ComedySet mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
His Prehistoric Past
1914 · 54 votes
Movie6.1ComedyPierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Dough and Dynamite
1914 · 55 votes
Movie5.6ComedyAlthough only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
Laughing Gas
1914 · 77 votes
Movie5.6ComedyCharlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
Those Love Pangs
1914 · 61 votes
MovieDramaComedyA long-retired director of early silent films recalls his exciting career as a filmmaker.
Movie6.2ComedyThe hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.
The New Janitor
1914 · 61 votes
Movie6.2ComedyOn his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
His Trysting Places
1914 · 52 votes
Movie5.2ComedyCharlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off.
Recreation
1914 · 68 votes
Movie5.9ComedyCharlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
His New Profession
1914 · 63 votes
Movie5.2ComedyMabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Mabel's Blunder
1914 · 28 votes
Movie5.3ComedyA very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
His Favorite Pastime
1914 · 52 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCharlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
The Property Man
1914 · 43 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCharlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
His Musical Career
1914 · 55 votes
Movie5.4ComedyCharlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
Getting Acquainted
1914 · 50 votes
Movie4.2ComedyAfter running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
Ambrose's First Falsehood
1914 · 4 votes
Movie5.8ComedyMabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Gentlemen of Nerve
1914 · 49 votes
Movie4.4ComedyA city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Leading Lizzie Astray
1914 · 4 votes