D-Comedy

A selection of rare classic shorts from the 1930s:Leave It To Dad (1933): When their meddling parents try to break them up, a young couple runs off...

When burlesque sensation Doll Face Carrol (Vivian Blaine) reads about tryouts for Flo Hartman's (Reed Hadley) new Broadway operetta "Park Avenue," ...

Scrappy kid gloves champion Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey) is all set for a title bout with the West Side's contender when he gets abducted by a pair...

A millionaire befriends the East Side Kids after they gallantly rescue him from a mugging. They eventually begin to suspect that the man's own son ...

The East Side Kids go to the races! Mugs Maloney (Leo Gorcey) dreams of being a jockey. When an elderly thoroughbred owner agrees to train him on t...

A master of the "slow burn," Edgar Kennedy perfected the comedy of exasperation in his long-running series of two-reelers released by Pathe and its...

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...