As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.

A woman commits her hard-drinking husband to a sanitarium that would drive any man to drink.
Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)

Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marria...

When Tweedledum's girl is kidnapped by bad men, he springs into action.
Clyde gets in hot water with his Amazon wife and her tough sailor brother, culminating in a wrestlin...

A newly married couple looking for a house come up against a crooked real estate agent.
Comedy star Lige Conley plays a uneducated farm boy who decided to go to college.
In the grip of passionate foreplay, Zigoto and his lover are oblivious to an escalating series of in...
In this early mother-in-law comedy, a bride’s mother insists on managing the private lives of the ne...

A delightful and typical farce film, ending with the usual Gallic chase.

Accomplished musician Blanche Ladoré (played by “Léontine”) places a personal ad in the paper wishin...

A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering th...

Robinet escapes from his wife’s smothering devotion to the adventure of lovemaking outside marriage.
The Newlyweds move into their new flat and prepare to entertain their uncle.

Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming ...
Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie...
They were two hobos, black and white, master and man, a regular slave driver white, while black went...
Pal the dog saves a kidnapped baby from raging waterfalls and hungry alligators. (MoMA)