
Acting
Mai Wells
Born — Died
1863-04-13 — 1941-08-01
Place of birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
24 titles
Known for
6.9The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
The Pilgrim
1923
7.4Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
The Chaplin Revue
1959
6.5An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
If I Had a Million
1932
8.0A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
Excuse Me
1925
A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.
Lady Clare
1912
5.6A wicked king has taken over the Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera follows two farmers placing a Scarecrow upon a pole in a cornfield. Pon rescues a Kansas girl named Dorothy from the evil witch Mombi, whom Princess Gloria has been taken to by King Krewl to freeze her heart so she will no longer love Pon. An Indian princess has a ceremony to bring the Scarecrow to life. Pon rescues the cold-hearted princess and they flee for help, discovering the Scarecrow, who promptly falls in love with the princess, and Button-Bright, a lost boy from America. They come to the castle of the Tin Emperor, Nick Chopper, and after oiling him, he falls in love with Gloria. After a bit of a chase aided by the Sawhorse and the Wizard, Mombi turns Pon into a Kangaroo, and a slough of Fred Woodward's animals battle it out.
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
1914
Film credits
1920s · 6 titles
6.9The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
The Pilgrim
1923
8.0A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
Excuse Me
1925
7.0While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.
The Breath of the Gods
1920
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Old Lady 31
1920
10.0Bonnie and Cliff meet cute when she gives him a lift after his car has broken down. Turns out she’s getting ready to open a beauty parlor and bleaches her hair platinum blonde to drum up business much to the chagrin of a local woman’s group. However, when Cliff’s wealthy mother invites Bonnie to be guest of honor at her yacht party things turn around both business and personally for the pair.
Blondes by Choice
1927
8.0When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.
Opened Shutters
1921
1910s · 16 titles
A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.
Lady Clare
1912
5.6A wicked king has taken over the Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera follows two farmers placing a Scarecrow upon a pole in a cornfield. Pon rescues a Kansas girl named Dorothy from the evil witch Mombi, whom Princess Gloria has been taken to by King Krewl to freeze her heart so she will no longer love Pon. An Indian princess has a ceremony to bring the Scarecrow to life. Pon rescues the cold-hearted princess and they flee for help, discovering the Scarecrow, who promptly falls in love with the princess, and Button-Bright, a lost boy from America. They come to the castle of the Tin Emperor, Nick Chopper, and after oiling him, he falls in love with Gloria. After a bit of a chase aided by the Sawhorse and the Wizard, Mombi turns Pon into a Kangaroo, and a slough of Fred Woodward's animals battle it out.
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
1914
4.4The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.
The Magic Cloak of Oz
1914
5.7Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
Fatty's Tintype Tangle
1915
A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lovers. Lake is a pretty good stand-in for Mabel, but the husky young man who is supposed to be Arbuckle is pretty much of a nullity. Al is a money-hungry villain, up to no good and achieving no good end.
The Grab Bag Bride
1917
Baffles, Gentleman Burglar
Gentleman Burglar
1914
6.0Villains launch Fatty and Mabel's beachfront house into the ocean.
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
1916
Honest Thieves is a silent comedy
Honest Thieves
1917
4.5Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
The Gusher
1913
NRSlapstick shenanigans at an overcrowded boarding house.
The Late Lamented
1917
The editor of the Bungleville Bugle posts a sign on the door, informing the citizens that he is going to a better town. On his way he meets Slim and sees him trading his horse for the Bungleville Bugle.
Slim Becomes an Editor
1914
NRCactus Nell
Cactus Nell
1917
5.5The star of a film attends a public showing.
A Movie Star
1916
4.8Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
A Muddy Romance
1913
4.0Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.
The Skeleton
1912
5.0Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.
Madcap Ambrose
1916
