Charles Avery

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home. (imdb)

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for a refreshing malt beverage, then to have another and another.... (imdb)

Lillie runs a boarding house full of young bachelors. A friend writes to say she's sending her little darling daughter for a visit. The bachelors all buy toys for a little girl, but an attractive young woman gets off the train instead. (imdb)

Based on Shakespeare's play: Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior. (imdb)

Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation. (imdb)

A drinking man arrives home, late and sozzled as usual. His wife reminds him that he promised to take their child to a play. The play proves to be a morality tale about the evils of drink; he sees the parallels in his own life and swears off the demon brew. (imdb)

Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husband expresses his complete faith in her. (imdb)

Twin brothers are separated for many years. One of them takes a job in a cheap circus where he wears a gorilla suit. He is forced to enter a lion's cage, but is relieved to see that the 'lion' is his long-lost brother. (imdb)

Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a wife who needs help with her drunken husband. (imdb)

One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself. (imdb)

Jim decides to sell his store because business is bad. When his prospective buyer comes to look the place over, Jim offers friends and strangers money to visit the store and make it look busy. (imdb)

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel. (imdb)

A dying man sends a note to his lost love, asking her to visit him. As a lark she does, but brings along some drunken party guests. They find him dead, and she repents her lightheartedness. (imdb)

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave. (imdb)

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin with that of another apprentice, Sandro, whom Giannina loves. (imdb)

A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs a theatrical booking agency), plus the workmen at home, are ill; when she shows up at the office, they all go after her. (imdb)

An ex-con is accused of stealing a wallet, but the real thief happens to be on the jury and refuses to vote for a guilty verdict. (imdb)

Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped, until the baby is found under a hatbox. (imdb)

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. Afterwards it is stolen, and Mrs. Kendrick goes into debt to duplicate it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but Mrs. Kendrick never learns the truth, and struggles for years to pay off the huge debt. (imdb)

A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls for him, especially when the cardinal arranges his arrest. (imdb)

Mary is coerced into helping with a burglary of a minister's apartment. Later she repents and goes to the minister's storefront mission to help. (imdb)

Adele is in love with a rich Wall Street trader, but he treats her indifferently. With the help of another suitor, she plots to ruin him financially. (imdb)

A neglectful woman wants custody of her children in her divorce. The judge rules that he will give her the children only if she can demonstrate her children's love for her within a week. (imdb)

Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant's commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Cohen inadvertently becomes a hero when he tosses back an enemy hand grenade and raises a fallen flag in the midst of the conflict. Goldberg conspires to have Cohen shot by a firing squad, but Cohen's girlfriend Rebecca rides to the rescue. (Wikipedia)

Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon. (imdb)

A banker's young daughter, playing a game of "hide and seek", is apparently locked within the vault resulting in comedic rescue. (imdb)

Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues. (imdb)

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!). (imdb)

early Keystone as Ford Sterling and Nick Coghley fight over Mabel Normand, their weapon of choice being - cheese! Sterling's usual over-the-top mugging works hilariously to express the vileness of the cheese. (imdb)

Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl. (imdb)

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand. (imdb)

Here it is nice to see Sennett playing a different character than his usual hillbilly lover. Sennett looks quite dashing as the big game hunter. He's quite comically cowardly when the real big game shows up. Mabel is so calm and natural with the bear that she appears like a goddess or other worldly creature. She acts as if she's doing the scene with a cat or dog. (imdb)

Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a newspaper. Apparently, it is an ad on becoming a detective. Mabel goes rushing off to a Detective school run by Fred Ward. (imdb)

D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the prowl. (imdb)

Mabel and Charles Avery are the young rustic lovers. Meanwhile, their parents are indulging in such lascivious activities as chin-chucking, when the approach of the young 'uns causes them to hide in a closet. On finding someone in the closet, the kids call the cops... (imdb)

Mary Wilson, a neglected child of the slums, falls in with Bob Walton, a tough denizen of the lower east side, and loves him with a pure, honest affection that his low nature cannot appreciate. He forces her to enter a saloon where she is insulted by Harry Brown, which is resented by Bob. They quarrel, come to blows, and Brown draws a gun as Bob closes in on him, forcing the muzzle against Brown's breast as it explodes, thereby causing him to shoot himself, dying almost instantly. (imdb)

Fatty and his girlfriend are at the beach. He stops to watch some boys who have a jelly-fish. An intertitle reads: "A Fine Specimen of Jelly-Fish". There is a close-up of the jiggling jelly-fish. one of the boys tells Fatty that he is like the jiggling jelly-fish. Fatty knocks him down and leaves. The boys decide to get him. As Fatty kisses his girlfriend, the boys sneak up and hit him on the head. He gives chase, falls and gives up. A man in a wheelchair is being wheeled into a garden.

After his wedding ceremony is interrupted, Krause runs amok in a park while his bride waits forlornly with the minister. (imdb)

Warner is an old veteran in love with the widow Simpson. His rival is an old farmer, named Burns. Warner stands in front of the old soldiers' home, telling a crowd of old veterans of the battles he took part in, and as he unfolds the tales the scenes are depicted in the film. Burns, with rake in his hand, listens doubtfully, makes a few sarcastic remarks and walks away. (imdb)

A traveling salesman battles hurricane-force winds and a disapproving father in competing with a rube for a local beauty's hand in marriage.

Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.

A comedy short with Ford Sterling impersonating a band leader and a flirtatious Mabel Normand creating trouble between her admirer, Caesar, and the leader.