Alice Howell
Actor · 1886 – 1961 · New York City, New York
"The scream of the screen". One reviewer likened her to a "sort of Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Max Linder." All this was compressed into "one more or less diminutive package of femininity". Sometimes called "the girl Charlie Chaplin", she worked for Mack Sennett and later L-KO Kompany. Her early comedies were often produced by Universal Pictures.
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Movie5.8ComedyCharlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
Caught in a Cabaret
1914 · 62 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
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
Movie5.9ComedyMabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Mabel's Married Life
1914 · 76 votes
Movie5.8ComedyTo show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
The Knockout
1914 · 57 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAlice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
Distilled Love
1920 · 2 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
Movie10.0Comedy short starring Alice Howell
In Dutch
1918 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.
Dangerous Pleasure
1925 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyAnthony Churchill, about to marry Helen Griggs, is on six months' probation imposed upon him by Helen's father, who knows Anthony has been wild in his earlier days. Marion, a forgotten flame, turns up with incriminating love letters which Anthony has written and threatens a breach of promise suit.
Love Is an Awful Thing
1922 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Magnolia Milkshake, having a husband who is exempted because of possessing a disease which might be called "too much fat" is desirous of helping the boys across the ferry mop up Bill Hohenzollern's place, tries very hard to join the Red Cross. After various tests she is finally rejected. Since this plan didn't work out she decides to join the kaiser-killers herself and so enters the recruiting station right next door. Here she is again rejected because of a flat head. Having failed twice she goes home feeling that she needs a little training and uses poor delicate little hubby as the goat. While Magnolia is still hard at work training with some dummies, hubby gets a note from Nicholas Nutmeg inviting him to a game of poker, but also inviting his little bank roll. Magnolia sees the note, becomes furious, and here follow some lively chases which end with hubby in jail and Magnolia trying hard to enlist in the army.
Hoot Toot
1918 · 1 votes
Movie6.7Alice Howell plays a working girl who breaks into society through no fault of her own when asked to pose as royalty at a posh party. Spiked punch adds to the hilarity of the proceedings. A silent film inspired by the character of Cinderella, but with the contemporary setting.
Cinderella Cinders
1920 · 3 votes
MovieComedyThe daughter of King Neptune takes human form to seek revenge for the death of her sister by a fishing net. However, she falls in love with King William, the man she holds responsible.
Movie7.0ComedyA deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets, who chases him down and exacts comic justice.
Father Was a Loafer
1915 · 1 votes
MovieComedyMarried ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
Movie3.9ComedyA Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
Lover's Luck
1914 · 4 votes
- MovieComedy
An L.K.C Productions silent comedy from 1923.
Movie9.0ComedyThe proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress discovered the workshop where the proprietor was having the model duplicated and she was bribed not to say anything about what she saw. She started out with the bribe money to buy some gewgaws for herself, but she got in the road of a passing auto. Unfortunately, the auto contained the young Secret Service agent.
Pirates of the Air
1916 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
He Loved the Ladies
1914 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
It all starts when the actress-wife gives a midnight party to her former associates and Bill and Mr. Jowlish try to horn in on the revelry...
Silk Hose and High Pressure
1915 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyWeb of office romance entanglements lead to slapstick hijinks at a fly paper company.
Under New Management
1915 · 1 votes
Movie5.3ComedyKeystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a woman.
Shot in the Excitement
1914 · 3 votes
Movie5.5ComedyA man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.
The Great Toe Mystery
1914 · 2 votes