Harry Gribbon — Actor (6)
The Dare-Devil (1923) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Dare-Devil
director: Del Lord actor: Ben Turpin / Harry Gribbon
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
You Said a Mouthful (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
You Said a Mouthful
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Joe E. Brown / Ginger Rogers
other title: Badenixe / À tour de brasses
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
So Long Letty (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
So Long Letty
other title: Parejas modernas
Uncle Claude goes on vacation with his granddaughters and meets and dislikes boisterous Letty. When he finds nephew Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife, unaware that he is married to Letty. To get a check from Uncle Claude, the two couples switch spouses.
The Great Junction Hotel (1931) [Movie] Eggplant.place IMDb TMDB
The Great Junction Hotel
director: William Beaudine actor: Edward Everett Horton / Patsy Ruth Miller
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.