His Body for Rent

Someone to Love

December 1928 •English

A poor but honest sheet-music salesman is parted from his wealthy fiancée when she comes to believe he’s nothing but a golddigger. But circumstance places him on the board of an exclusive girls’ school, where he can prove his integrity as well as his love. This film is believed lost.

Familie Schimek

March 1926 •German

Bread on the Waters

March 1913 •English

A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption.

The Misleading Widow

September 1919 •English

The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was based on the 1917 stage play Billeted by F. Tennyson Jesse and H.M. Harwood. The film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It appears to be a lost film.

His Sister's Children

September 1911 •English

Harry Burton's sister and her husband are suddenly called away for a few days on business and telegraph him to come to their home and take care of their two little boys, "Toddie and Budge." He at once complies, and is soon with the children, assuming his duties as "governor." Helen Manton, stopping in the same town, thinks a great deal of Harry Burton, and naturally he of her.

The Gallant Hussar

August 1928 •German

The daughter of an American millionaire falls in love with a Hungarian hussar officer during a visit to the Austrian Empire.

Das tanzende Wien

October 1927 •German

A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.

The Best Bad Man

November 1925 •English

Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing Peggy Swain (Clara Bow) and her dad (Frank Beal) off their neighboring ranch. When decent-minded Nichols demands that the agent cease harassing the farmers, the nasty villain blows up the nearby dam, flooding the valley.

The First Distiller

April 1911 •Russian

Rough House Rosie

May 1927 •English

A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.

The Ringtailed Rhinoceros

August 1915 •English

John Carter is a good fellow. In fact, his good fellowship is Carter's one great fault, for the highballs and cocktails which go with it too frequently make him forget his more serious obligations and are cause for anxiety on the part of his charming fiancée Marybelle. Marybelle's little brother, Billie asks Carter what is making Marybelle so sad. Carter replies evasively, "It's a Ringtailed Rhinoceros." Billie vows to kill the rhino. When Carter fails to appear on time at a dinner which was planned to announce his engagement to Marybelle, and finally arrives intoxicated, her parents in anger force her to break the engagement and forbid Carter the house. Marybelle's rejection of Carter hits him hard.

The Late Lamented

September 1917 •English

Slapstick shenanigans at an overcrowded boarding house.

A Suspended Ordeal

May 1914 •English

Screwball slapstick with Fatty and Minta mixed up in zany adventures.

Fatty and the Heiress

June 1914 •English

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

A Brand New Hero

September 1914 •English

Tramp Roscoe Arbuckle saves a girl from drowning in a pond and is given a job on the police force. A jealous officer dopes him causing him to sleep through a robbery, but afterwards wakes up and captures the miscreants.

Fatty's Wild Night

January 1914 •English

Fatty's Wild Night is a 1914 Comedy short.

Aloma of the South Seas

May 1926 •English

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

Miss Hobbs

May 1920 •English

She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an idea. Then she went in for barefoot dancing, futurist art and other advanced notions. Well, the upshot of it was the young man took upon himself to tame her, to make her a regular girl.

High Steppers

March 1926 •English

Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.

Joanna

December 1925 •English

Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollars in cash. She falls in love with John Wilmore, a gut who hasn't got a dime nor a pot to put it in if he had a dime. There are those who object. Especially, the crowd of gold-digging gigolos and hustlers she knows.