Movies: Minta Durfee

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper....

The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride aw...

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in ...

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The warden of the Desert Wells Penitentiary asks Tex ...

Fatty hopes to marry for money but thanks to many slapstick complications his plan doesn't go as smoothly as he intended....

Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos...

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw th...

Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short....

A gang of thieves continually threaten or attempt to kill the Mayor, always setting up the bumbling Chief of Police as the culprit. The Chief's very friendly relationship with the Mayor's wife doesn't help. When the Mayor's valuables are stolen the C...

Thinking he’s performing a good deed stagehand Droppington causes the breakup of the current show when he turns the full strength of the hose on what he supposes to be a fire in the theater. The fact of the matter is magician Mephisto was performing ...

A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money....

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker....

A Misplaced Foot is a 1914 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle....

Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a charming and delightful dance. Unfortunately, the ...

Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle....

In this farce Charley and Minta frolic by the seaside....

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder....

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason....

After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed....

During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women,...