movies about Dot Farley

First in a series of shorts based on J. P. McEvoy's Tuttle Family characters. Pa Tuttle (Lucien Littlefield), with three kids to feed, strives to...

After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the...

Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.

A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.

Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.

Fox musical.

Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The bride samples it in Si's absence, and being...

Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician...

While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.

Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until...

Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family...

After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer...

While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he...

A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.

Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.

Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother, Henry, puts pressure on his sister to leave...

Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.

Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.

A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers.

Edgar Kennedy and family builds a boat.

The first Warner Brothers production. The production was shot in St. Louis, Missouri.

Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making...

When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.

A College Chicken tells the story of a chicken that is stolen multiple times.

Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? is a comedy short released in 1923

Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy

A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job...

Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal,...

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.

A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New England fishing village.

This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.

Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's jewelry. She thinks she has been robbed and...

Edgar Kennedy and his family open a home decorating service, even though they have no clue what they are doing. The day of their first job, they...

A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up...

Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's...

Algie secures a job on the force. A new chief of police is appointed, who wears a soft hat and a frock coat. A woman reports the theft of her watch...

Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young...

Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a...

A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.

Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with...

An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.

Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) gets a call from the studio to come in and direct the last scene of a film in production. But, before he can leave the house,...

A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a...

He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.

A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather...

Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!

Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous...

Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.

At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout...

Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang....

A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies. Both are coming over to visit and spend the...

When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.

A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a...

A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.

Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually...

To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are...

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down...

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his...

Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but...

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot find peace on the Pullman train he is traveling...

While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it...

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? ...

A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an...

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

In the fifth of WB's Potter Family series, based on the characters created by J.P.McAvoy, Pa Potter (Lucien Littlefield) gets a job as a professional...

Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings...

A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.

The adventures of an escaped convict.

A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.

Lorenz Pedro, a Mexican half-breed, owns a small sheep ranch, and lives happily with his wife Marie and little daughter Lois. One exceedingly hot...

Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under...

After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.

Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t...

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father...

An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert...

Women won't let potential son-in-law marry her daughter unless he can get her husband to quit golfing.

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are...

A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to...

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is...

Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she...

A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.

Edgar falls in love with another woman.

Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.

In this two-reel silent short, Mack gets a letter telling him about a gift/inheritance from India, and it turns out to be two elephants.

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown...

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Short film about the title subject played for laughs.

Ralph Graves is a football hero that delvers ice for a living in this Mack Sennett slapstick comedy.

When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.

Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with...

The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.

The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day....

When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.

Florence wants to recapture the romance in her marriage and talks a reluctant Edgar into redonning his navy uniform and serenading her.

Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style...

Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury...

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at...

A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party,...

Edgar's mother-in-law claims that Edgar can't fish. Edgar is determined to prove her wrong.

In this episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series, Edgar Kennedy lays bricks.

Bud Duncan & Kewpie Morgan take a job as cleaners.

A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.

Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.

Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and...

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in...

While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.

Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has...

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his...

Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of...

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her...

Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the scene, Edgar reluctantly pays for an...

When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house...

A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.

Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.

Dorthea Gordon comes to a fishing village with her ill-tempered brother, Walter. She rows out to a rock to sketch the seals, but her boat drifts away...

The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of...

A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any...

Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems...

Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of...

Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.

The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open...

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in...

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers...

The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are...

Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is coming to claim his bride. Meanwhile, his...

Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by...

When his aunt disapproves of his marriage to Mabel Deering and threatens to disinherit him, Percy elicits the aid of his buddy Billy Haskell, who is...

Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired...

Sammy can't get any attention from his girlfriend Dot because all she can think of is Charlie Chaplin. She sends Chaplin an enticing letter and Sammy...

1933 film short

Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.

Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater. She is introduced to...

Edgar and his family go into business as interior decorators.

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to...

Lucy Fay leaves her husband, Richard, a fireman, for a suave politician, Perry Dunn. Richard compensates for the loss by adopting Drina, a baby girl...