Norman Taurog

Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!

Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and...

An overview of Cole Porter’s musical contributions to the film Broadway Melody of 1940.

As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life...

This short plugs the new tunes written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel for the movie "College Rhythm" and shows the audience how they were written and...

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and...

Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with...

Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to...

In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and...

A Mermaid Comedy

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West...

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being...

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss'...

Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays...

Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds...

Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting,...

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he...

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and...

Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic...

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett,...

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father...

Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend.

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her...

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a...

A singing rodeo rider hires on at an expensive all-women dude ranch and beauty spa. He falls for a pretty fitness trainer who is constantly...

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.

A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.

Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans...

When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child...

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...

An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the...

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never...

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new...

Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned...

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men...

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet...

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

The admiral is coming, so a sailor and his buddy hide their girlfriend and pet turkey.

Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and...

The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.

When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film “The Kidnapped Bride”, everyone...

On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man...

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.

A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party...

After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska (Anna Maria Alberghetti) finds herself under the wing of...

Rivals go at it as cab drivers, romancers of the same girl and football teams.

In an erudite driver's taxi, Jack Benny shares a ride with a very pretty and delightfully flirtatious young lady.

Larry might be a hick causing a lot of trouble at the farm, but he shows he can outsmart those crooked city folks!

Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!

Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The...

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions...

Comedy short.

Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best,...

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal...

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery...

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

The Sportsman is an American film comedy first released in 1921, directed by Larry Semon and Norman Taurog. The film stars Larry Semon, Lucille...

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

Lane plays two roles: Grand Duke Algy Horseradish De Ketchup of Worcestershire and Newsboy White. The newsboy is hired by Elmer Éclair (played...

A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Lloyd Hamilton chasing a butterfly in the slapstick comedy "Papa's Boy".

This is a better than average Hamilton film thanks to the presence of a bratty kid who makes Lloyd's life miserable. It seems that Lloyd was hired as...

In this one, we are introduced to a pretentious and uppity family who we just KNOW will be brought down to size later in the short. Then we cut to...

The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase...

This one is set at a college picnic by the lake, with three musical numbers. "We've Got It Bad but It Don't Do Us No Good" is by a quartet of college...

Slapstick comics Willie West and McGinty cause havoc at a construction site as they attempt to "work."

Lee Morse sings us a few songs.... Lee arrives at a film studio to discuss her participation. However the studio is ready for rehearsal and Lee...

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid...

The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.

Story of a football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life. His naive comical roommate remains his...

George convinces his friend John that suicide isn't the answer.

George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably...

A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.

Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of...

Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville...

The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who...

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...

A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife...

Lloyd, manager of a lunch wagon at the beach, must contend with his morning commute, difficult customers, and other problems on a day when absolutely...

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...

In 1923, The Gumps moved up to two-reel live-action comedies, with former Keystone Cop Joe Murphy as the chinless lead, pioneering...

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for...

A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences...

Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to...

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best,...

A wealthy man pretends to be a dummy on a movie set in order to meet to his favourite actress.

Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn...

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After...

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal...

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. But their cousin, Anita, wants the...

A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his...

Johnny Arthur has been ordered to spend a year out west to toughen him up, so he and butler George Davis head out. The cowboys at the ranch don't...

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.

Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.

Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.

A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.

Very first of the Juvenile Comedies series.

A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob...

Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets...

Cheap Skates is a lost film made by Educational Films, as a "Mermaid Comedy". Funny man Lige Conley starts scrambling when bees fly down his pants!

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob...

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery...

Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The...

A variety of accidents and escapes culminates in a cyclone which produces some ludicrous effects on the buildings, persons and animals in a small...