John A. Waldron

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 44 (Writer)

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    Smile Please
    Smile Please (1924) - Short Film
    Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must do a few heroic things, saving the lass from danger. He must also not move too quickly on the romantic front. Once she's willing to marry him, he must balance the duties of groom with that of sheriff, while Dudley tries to convince the lass that our hero is untrue to her... (imdb)
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    I Surrender Dear
    A girl, in love with the radio voice of Bing Crosby, is kissed by him in mistake for his sister; she won't believe it's him, and in a slapstick search through hotel corridors for his new flame, Bing runs afoul of a married woman with jealous husband. (imdb)
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    Yukon Jake
    Yukon Jake (1924) - Short Film
    Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle. (imdb)
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    Feet of Mud
    Feet of Mud (1924) - Short Film
    As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himself comes with an "engineering" job with the city. But it's sanitary engineering, and while our street sweeping hero tries his best, he just can't avoid making enemies. When he stumbles into the midst of a lively Chinatown tong war, it's Harry's bravery that saves Natalie and wins the day. (imdb)
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    Bull and Sand
    Bull and Sand (1924) - Short Film
    Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's daughter. To win her heart, he accepts to fight bulls at the bullfighting school. But the princess is also courted by Manuel Risotto, a famous toreador who kidnaps her. The King chases after him in a car driven by Adonis. Unfortunately, the chauffeur lets Risotto run away. In a rage, the King condemns Adonis to the death penalty. (imdb)
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    Ten Dollars or Ten Days
    In part because of a bad night of sleep, a soda clerk at a department store is having a bad day at work, which negatively affects his relationship with a pretty cashier, to who he is attracted, and a ribbon clerk, who is also attracted to the cashier. The next morning, the cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman. (imdb)
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    Matchmaking Mamma
    This marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. He is panty-whipped by his social climbing second wife. She has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, and to nab Larry Lodge, the pageant's leading man, as a husband for her flighty daughter Phyllis, the pageant's leading lady. Larry ends up only having eyes for Sally McNitt, Mr. McNitt's visiting daughter, and she in turn has eyes for him. (imdb)
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    The Fainting Lover
    This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, especially at a gathering where Dr. Dudley Smith, accomplished musician, artist, sportsman, lecturer, world traveler, singer, dancer and worker of cross-word puzzles, is putting heavy moves on Helen, Bert's intended. (imdb)
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    Movie-Town
    Movie-Town (1931) - Short Film
    In this fictional film with fictional characters, Baron Gonzola (Luis Alberni)is trying to sell Mack Sennett (Mack Sennett) and William Beaudine (William Beaudine)on the idea of starring his new prodigy, Marge (Marjorie Beebe) in one of their films. Set around a swimming pool in which Sennett's bathing beauties take a back seat to diving-and-swimming champion of the time, and then moves to a nightclub set featuring George Olsen) and his orchestra.
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    The Hollywood Kid
    THE HOLLYWOOD KID (1924, Sennett, D: Roy Del Ruth) A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws! With appearances by Mack Sennett, Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent, Ben Turpin, Marie Prevost, Billy Bevan, Charlie Murray, a dozen bathing beauties and a toothless lion! The most fun in this comedy was seeing all of the behind the scenes shots of the studio as it really was and all as part of the frenetic plot.
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    Lizzies of the Field
    There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage, and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win. (imdb)
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    Galloping Bungalows
    All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. (imdb)
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    The Golfers
    The Golfers (1929) - Short Film
    Charlie Guest (Charlie Guest) wants to be a golfer. Bert Swor (Bert Swor) is a famous golfer. Thelma Hill (Thelma Hill) only loves the best golfer. Follow Charlie as he tries to become the world's greatest golfer and win Thelma's love. (imdb)
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    Wall Street Blues
    A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
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    The Lion and the Souse
    Mack Sennett silent short comedy.
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    Three Foolish Weeks
    A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way with her. She's actually the queen traveling incognito, which the loyal residents recognize. The cross-eyed baron keeps getting caught trying to get into the queen-then the inn keeper's wife's bedroom. (imdb)
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    Dream House
    Dream House (1932) - Short Film
    A 2 reel short directed by Mack Sennett and starring Bing Crosby.
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    Billboard Girl
    Billboard Girl (1932) - Short Film
    Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates. (imdb)
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    The Bluffer
    The Bluffer (1930) - Short Film
    A man tries to win the admiration of a girl's father, by pretending he's earned medals for bravery.
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    Don\
    Three games of bridge over the ages are presented. Each game has two husband/wife couple playing against each other. The first two games take place during prehistoric times and with King Henry VIII respectively. Although the names, places and faces have changed, the two games are remarkably similar in tone, with the end result having a wife clobber her husband. However, by the twentieth century, when the third game is played, things, including the way bridge is played, are more refined. (imdb)
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    Black Oxfords
    Black Oxfords (1924) - Short Film
    A mother and daughter are in a fix because their mortgage payment is due and they can't make it--and the heartless landlord is about to foreclose on their house and throw them in the street. Their son Jack, who is in jail, finds out about their plight and breaks out in order to enter his horse in the steeplechase race to win enough money to pay the mortgage. (imdb)
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    Nip and Tuck
    Nip and Tuck (1923) - Short Film
    Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
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    Midnight Daddies
    A man wins a dance contest at a cabaret, but his wife hears it on the radio and decides to get back at him.
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    Bulls and Bears
    Bulls and Bears (1930) - Short Film
    Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
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    Half Holiday
    Andy Clyde trying to wear the pants in the family.
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    Flip Flops
    An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.
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    Off His Trolley
    Off His Trolley (1924) - Short Film
    Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
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    The Half-Back of Notre Dame
    At football-mad Castoria College, Charlie Horse and Phil McCavity are two of the football team's players. Through sheer luck, they manage to lead their team to victory in the last game before graduation. Following graduation, Alma Matter, a pretty coed to who Phil is attracted, holds a reunion party at her parent's house. Alma has become an aviatrix and wants Charlie's help in getting her plane ready for a flight, as he has become a blacksmith who has supposed expertise in mechanics.
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    Honeymoon Hardships
    A newly married couple go to spend their honeymoon far out in the country with demented relatives who laugh off even the worst disasters. The couple are forced to sleep apart,The beds are rock hard, the food is inedible,and the farmhouse leaks in the middle of a fierce rainstorm. On top of everything else, a hick uncle with a large family pay a sudden visit.
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    The Girl in the Tonneau
    When the story begins, Dad insists that his daughter not marry some reporter but instead marry Luis. The problem is that Luis is a playboy and he's got Dad fooled. But when the three of them go on a hunting trip, the lady Luis jilted shows up and things get crazy. And, after this 'lady' burns up all of their clothes, Dad and his daughter are forced to try to drive home in the PJs...when they are stopped by a cop.
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    Monkey Business in Africa
    When the story begins, an airplane flying over Africa runs out of gas and the filmmaker and his team are forced to bail out. Once on the ground, all sorts of hijinks occur...such as a fight with a crocodile and a guy in a gorilla suit.
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    Uppercut O\
    Andy's top boxer walks out on him, later claims to be champ.
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    One More Chance
    One More Chance (1931) - Short Film
    Bing Bangs (Crosby) is a salesman for “Magic” washing machines and his demonstration of the machine at the beginning of the film results in disaster. Crosby later gains a transfer from Hoboken to California and he drives his wife Ethel and her Uncle Joe (who dislikes Bing) in an open car on the journey having many adventures en route.
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    A Hollywood Star
    Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.
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    The Chumps
    The Chumps (1930) - Short Film
    When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with what they THINK is a nice couple...not realizing they are card sharps. They crooks are spotted on the train and are warned NOT to take advantage of other passengers...so they invite the couple to their home in order to fleece them. Does the plan go as the crooks planned?
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    One Yard to Go
    One Yard to Go (1931) - Short Film
    Marjorie (Marjorie Beebe) is being wooed by the effete and broke Sir Herbert in this Mack Sennett production for Educational Pictures. Her mother wants Marjorie to marry this upper class twit, though the audience sure doesn't! Marjorie plans on pleasing her mother but soon meets a very handsome young man and is smitten...but he's just a 'lowly ice man' and mother doesn't approve.
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    Honeymoon Zeppelin
    Nick Stuart & Marjorie Beebe in "romantic" air-scapades that ends up in Zeppelin.
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    He Trumped Her Ace
    Marjorie Beebe and pals at a card party.
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    The Boudoir Butler
    When the story begins, Andy's wife has convinced him to join her in a ruse. It seems that a man is looking for widows to invest in his company...which SHOULD have alerted her that the guy was up to no good. But instead, she convinces her husband to pretend to be the butler and help her entertain the guy.
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    The New Half Back
    Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.
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    Ex-Sweeties
    Ex-Sweeties (1931) - Short Film
    Harry Gribbon runs a boarding house, which creates chaotic situations in this Mack Sennett comedy.
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    Shopping with Wifie
    Andy Clyde and his buddy are planning on getting an early start fishing. However, when Andy's adoring wife gets involved, though she says she wants him to go, she sure prevents him from going fishing.
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    No, No, Lady
    No, No, Lady (1931) - Short Film
    When the story begins, a couple are rehearsing a play...one that is REALLY hard to believe. In the play, the cheating wife convinces her mousy and ineffectual husband to not only condone this affair but help pay for the lovers to run off together!! The director things the whole thing is unbelievable, so the couple from the play decide to act it out with her real life husband...the mousy and ineffectual Ed Martin (Andy Clyde).
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    Racket Cheers
    Racket Cheers (1930) - Short Film
    Andy Clyde and Daphne Pollard are nouveaux riches moving into a posh neighbourhood and trying to impress though their behaviour is gross and gauche.
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