Marie Mosquini

Chico (Charles Farrell) is a poor sewer worker who has only two dreams in life: to be promoted to sweeping streets and to find a woman who will be his wife. While he prays for guidance and blessings, he continues to work in the filth beneath the Parisian streets. However, one day he meets Diane (Gaynor), a beautiful woman who has been handed many hardships in life and is being chased by the police for a petty crime. (All Movie Guide)

Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time. (imdb)

After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates. (imdb)

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink. (imdb)

Many of the scenes in "On the Fire" seem to be direct copies from Arbuckle's earlier "Waiter's Ball." Such similarities as trying to kill a fish with a gun hopping around out of water, the tossing of the food to the waiters, and several other scenes seem to be carbons of Arbuckle's film. (imdb)

Snub Pollard and his friend are clearly under their wives thumbs. But his grandfather turns up and tells them to assert themselves, which they do. Her father is not impressed. (youtube.com)

Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight definitely does not go anything like expected. (imdb)

A 'Snub' Pollard & Marie Mosquini slapstick comedy.

The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold Lloyd's brother, Gaylord. Shortly after this, a new dentist (Snub Pollard) arrives to work in an office across the hall. In a very funny scene, Pollard manages to steal all of Gaylord's patients from his waiting room. However, when it comes to dental work, Snub is highly unlikely to receive the American Dental Association's seal of approval. (imdb)

A Hal Roach slapstick comedy featuring 'Snub' Pollard & Marie Mosquini. (imdb)

"At the Ringside" is filmed in a "slum" which is rather obviously a studio mock-up on the Hal Roach back lot, and it clearly copies the Lambeth-style slum in Chaplin's "Easy Street" (which was also a too-obvious mock-up). The first half of this film is a blatant copy of "Easy Street". Pollard plays the local constable, charged with maintaining order in the tough slum district. (imdb)

Like many a Snub Pollard comedy, "Years to Come" is a complete flight of fancy. In this one, it is the year 2000, and the roles of women and men have been completely reversed. That's where almost all the jokes come from. (imdb)

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything goes-quality one rarely sees in Mr. Roach's output. It stars Snub Pollard who is initially introduced as a baby left on a doorstep before we see him fully grown about 20 or so years later still in that basket! From there, he gets bumped car to car crossing the street prior to getting literally thrown through a window as an auction is taking place! (imdb)

'Save the Ship' is a plotless silent short film which has the 33 year old Stan Laurel acting in a run of the mill production to pay his bills and as a token by Hal Roach. (imdb)

After their house is blown away by a twister, a farmer and his wife decide to move to California. Once over the border they're greeted by rain, hail, snow and an Indian uprising. (imdb)

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful. (imdb)

Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines. The first is a Limburger cheese bit that is low-brow but funny. The second is the final scene with dogs following Stan at the end. (imdb)

Don't Park There was one of a series of two-reel comedies Will Rogers made for producer Hal Roach during the 1923-4 season. The story amounts to little more than a one-joke anecdote, but oddly enough the joke is more relevant now than it was in 1924: this is the tale of a man who can't run a simple errand in the city because he can't find a parking space. (imdb)

In this short, Will Rogers introduces and concludes the movie. And, then, he acts in different fake versions of highlights from famous movies--such as Douglas Fairbanks as ROBIN HOOD, the bull fighting scene from BLOOD AND SAND as well as a recreation of a KEYSTONE COPS short. (imdb)

Satire on the epic Western 'The Covered Wagon (1923)'. (imdb)

Count Your Change is a 1919 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer. (imdb)

Delivery man 'Snub' Pollard and his assistant Sunshine Sammy nearly run over Marie Mosquini in the street and ends up at dance school.

The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture. (imdb)

Run 'Em Ragged, Snub Pollard's 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar Mack Sennett slapstick--over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a Keystone Cops-style chase across Los Angeles's Echo Park. But there is more here than knockabout. Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters' perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.

A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation. (imdb)

A once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with their wives.

Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and being chased by the police.

Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think he's a drip--as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up--and loses face once again with his family. (imdb)

Snub Pollard comedy directed by Charley Chase and produced by Hal Roach.

A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention. (imdb)

Will Rogers plays a lazy man who is chosen by a group of men to run for Congress.

Harold Lloyd and Snub going camping up in the wilds, where they run into bears, mountain lions, a skunk, and Bebe Daniels and her gun, who falls for Harold's City Slicker ways. (imdb)

A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921), in which the pair ride into town on a railroad handcar (with Morrison providing the locomotive muscle). When there it's all about the hustle for food with rivals and advertisement in the café business..

While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break. (imdb)

A tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time. (imdb)

While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.

A very rich old man promises to leave his extended family his fortune if they all move in together and get along for one year.

A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.

Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around. This happens at his work when a co-worker sneaks off with the boss's daughter who just happens to be the crush for Charley. After accidentally getting loaded on bootleg whiskey, Charley gets some courage and goes out to get his woman.

Snub goes butterfly hunting in Grffith Park and catches Marie Mosquini by accident. They go to a café where all the men have a lot of hair on their faces and the usual mischief ensues.

Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one even wrestles him to the ground) before he boards the ship.

After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and takes Sammy and George away, leaving the other two staggering in the road. Snub and Hughie agree to go somewhere "where there are no wives, landlords or prohibitionists", and so three months later they emerge on a prairie with supplies dwindling.

Snub Pollard (sans moustache) and Hughie Mack are tenants sharing a bed in a small hotel. They wake up at 6am and prepare breakfast with two eggs which are taken out of Snub's jacket pocket and put into a coffee perculator. The landlady (Vera White) storms up the stairs when she smells the coffee being made and demands that the janitor (Earl Mohan) break down the tenants' door with a pick-axe.

'Snub' Pollard in a lot of wedding problems.

Two rival bicycle messengers are sent to the same location: a wealthy artist's estate populated with attractive models.

As tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows revenge on the new bride. The wedding limo pulls off leaving the groom (Snub Pollard) behind, who then has to chase it down the street. He catches it up but is made to sit on the back of the car "as ballast". The car comes to a halt where the groom mistakes a policeman's gesturing of traffic as an offer of a handshake.

An auto accident hurls Snub into a skating rink, where he encounters Rowe and Marie. Among the various slip-and-falling going on, two frisky escaped monkeys from a show put on skates to join in and create pandemonium.

Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about to throw some litter into the road and dashes over to catch it in his cart. He then tries to save a drunken man from falling into the road before stopping his cart to pick up a solitary leaf which has dared to fallen upon the ground.

Stop the presses! Snub Pollard is working there.

A couple of old guys remembering the old days when courting Marie Mosquini.

Hal Roach produced comedy has Will Rogers playing the title character, a rather slow, dimwitted man who works on a ranch where he usually gets pushed around at. A woman (Marie Mosquini) comes to town looking for someone to help her photograph some of the animals so she picks Hank and soon regrets it.

'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.

'Snub' Pollard wants to hang himself but figures joining the circus was better idea.

When Papa tells son Malcolm the story of the first Thanksgiving, Malcolm imagines the tale with his father in the role of "John Alldone" and his mother as "Prisilly."

'Snub' Pollard is an local actor getting a big break in the movie industry, coming home to show off his fame.

A couple of pals tries to stay out of trouble, without much luck.

A young cowboy takes a job at a ranch owned by two aging spinsters, unaware that both are completely in love with him.

Harold Lloyd takes a trolley with Snub behind the wheel and Bebe collecting the tickets.

Two lifelong friends vie for the affection of the same woman.

Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.

At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.

Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an improvised tent.

Toto is chief chef and bottle washer in the home of a millionaire. The home, incidentally, is run by the servants.

'Snub' Pollard gets knocked about at Prof. Biceps School of Physical Culture.

On a farm in zero degree weather, Snub, the hired hand, attempts to keep warm and to keep the farm's deed out of the hands of rogues.

A morals reformer returns from Hollywood to his small town, and shows his fellow citizens the results of his investigation.

Snub conducts a blind pig in a barn, where the village cronies gather for their "licker," and the place is raided by revenue officers.

Snub, the chauffeur of a suddenly prosperous family, beats the butler to the hand of the pretty heiress. Then Snub's family shows up.

Snub, as a member of the London police force, is assigned to a neighborhood where a terrific free-for-all battle is taking place. After the struggle is snuffed out by a particularly belligerent chap who wades into the crowd and sends its members into the land of twittering birdies with an assortment of right and left-handed blows, Snub steps forth and accepts credit for the feat.

'Snub' Pollard on a boat.

Snub adopts a newsgirl, Marie and her little brother. A mean landlord seeking rent complicates matters and the trio take a train to Florida. But by mistake the train goes to Iceland.

The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pep has affected his spirits. While under ether he dreams that he has become an ape and is forced to swing upon the chandeliers and walk up the sides of the buildings. He wakes up just before the operation is performed and takes the chance to beat it out of the hospital. The horror of the dream gives him more pep than monkey glands.

The governor's (Snub) life is in constant jeopardy because of the bomb throwers who use every conceivable means to get him.

An unconventional super detective (Snub) pursues a trio of crooks who've stolen the fortune of his girlfriend's father. Along the way, absurd things happen like he's tricked into trailing a cow and he enters a cross-country foot race.

A visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.