Directing

Howard S. Moss

Born

1881-06-09 (145)

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

IMDb profile

Howard S. Moss was born on June 9, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Dream Doll (1917), Cracked Ice (1922) and The Beauty Contest (1922). He was previously married to Florence Adele Seavey. He died in July 1964 in New York City, New York, USA.

Known for

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Animated puppets, not drawings, were the staple of Chicago-based Howard Moss's films. These juvenile shorts frequently featured caricatures of screen stars like Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin.

Jimmy Gets the Pennant

1917

6.0

Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden in this surreal fable of a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls of the title.

Mary and Gretel

1916

Dolly Daisy in Hearts and Flowers poster

6.0

Two boys wait outside a young girl's window. 1930s stop-motion.

Dolly Daisy in Hearts and Flowers

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7.0

A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls. He shows his invention to the Toy King and his lovely daughter, and Ruby is overcome by the fumes and is changed into a doll, eloping with a doll lover and undergoing many strange adventures.

The Dream Doll

1917

4.9

Two male dolls compete to win the heart of female doll Dolly Daisy.

Hearts and Flowers

1930

5.3

A Dolly short.

Dolly Doings

1917

Behind the camera

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Animated puppets, not drawings, were the staple of Chicago-based Howard Moss's films. These juvenile shorts frequently featured caricatures of screen stars like Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin.