D-Comedy

Edgar Kennedy (1890-1948) was one of the funniest movie comedians of his era and the master of "the slow burn": playing characters who struggle to ...

Edgar Kennedy (1890-1948) was one of the greatest comic actors of Hollywood's Golden Age. He broke into Hollywood with bit parts in silent comedies...

Wealthy respectable middle-aged couple Ruth Ashley and Greg Stone are the secret entrepreneurs behind Hollywood's largest illicit escort service, w...

One night in a chance encounter, pretty waitress Mary Beekman (Irene Ware) meets millionaire Ken Alden (Sidney Blackmer). Unhappy with her station ...

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (1887-1933) was an enormously popular comedian who in 1914 was paid the unheard of sum of $1,000 a day (plus 25% of the pro...

Louise Fazenda regularly disguised her natural beauty, as she rose to stardom in a series of Keystone comedies, often playing a buck-toothed, bad h...

Comic whirlwind Joe E. Brown stars as newspaper go-fer Virgil Jones, the favored nephew of the New York Daily Blade's publisher but the bane of edi...

Along with Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon and the Keystone Kops, Billy Bevan was one of the most popular funnymen who headlined one- and two-reel s...

Born to vaudevillian parents, Larry Semon honed his comic skills in the family act, then used his drawing talent as a newspaper cartoonist. In 1916...

HIS WOODEN WEDDING (1925): It's wedding day for Charley Chase -- until the jealous best man slips him a note that the bride has a wooden leg. Charl...

Silent comedy legend Hal Roach had a unique method for discovering and nurturing performers. He created a series of shorts called The Hal Roach All...

Long Fliv The King (1921): Beautiful Princess Helga must marry within 24 hours or she will lose her throne. Her advisors have her marry Charley, a ...

Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on som...

Happy-Go-Lucky (1936, B&W) Singer "Happy" Jack Cole thinks he's hit the jackpot when a beautiful girl seeks him out during his performance at a...

At age 40, silent comic Harry Langdon parlayed his man-child persona into a string of hit Mack Sennett comedies. Working with writers Frank Capra a...

At age 40, silent comic Harry Langdon parlayed his man-child persona into a string of hit Mack Sennett comedies. Working with writers Frank Capra a...

At age 40, silent comic Harry Langdon parlayed his man-child persona into a string of hit Mack Sennett comedies. Working with writers Frank Capra a...

Struggling small-town realtor Henry Elkins (Stuart Erwin) stubbornly refuses to sell off valuable property that has been in his family for generati...

A beautiful and prestigious doctor, Hedy Fredericks (Ruth Hussey), returns to her hometown en route to Chicago and gets detoured by handsome Air Fo...

Cartoon characters Barney Google and Snuffy Smith are brought to life and dispatched to aid the war effort in this film adaptation of the classic c...

Private Snuffy Smith (1942, B&W): Straight from the long-running newspaper comic-strip, "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith," comes this riotous wa...

World-famous artist Priam Farrell (Roland Young) is a dead ringer for his devoted valet, Henry Leek. When Leek suddenly takes ill and dies, a mix-u...

Silent screen star Gloria Swanson "speaks" in ace director Leo McCarey's sharp and sophisticated pre-code romantic comedy, Indiscreet (also release...

Meek lingerie salesman Johnny Dill escapes the mire of the Great Depression in seedy speakeasies. Night after night, lonesome Dill grows frustrated...