Harry Gribbon

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling romance epic, 'The Loves of LaVorees', starring silent screen idol, Romaine Salisbury, hotly contested within Hollywood and part of an expensive silent film production, only for Bovine Productions to switch to sound production and reveal to them for the first time, Romaine's real all-talking, all-singing voice.

During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.

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.

John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.

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.

Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris.

Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.

Writers gather at actor Tom Kennedy's house for a brainstorming session, hoping to conceive the next hit movie.

A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.

A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.

Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer.

Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.

Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a newsreel pursuing a girl on the beach, Mrs. Townes has now means to negotiate.

Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.

A kidnapped girl thrown off a bridge. A mother's kiss. A father's kiss--and plenty of pies in the face. Who threw those pies?

Andy Clyde & Harry Gribbon go hunting.

This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.

A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.

Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-hand is also in love with her so conflicts arise.

This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy.

Two incompetent lawyers attempt to protect a client accused of being a peeping Tom.

Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.

Elmer and Fannie Blue (Ray Hughes and Dorothy Gulliver) are happy that their neighbors in the duplex apartment next door, that shares an interior wall, have vacated and are looking forward to having newer and nicer neighbors. Then, Oscar Black and his wife (Harry Gribbon and Vivien Oakland, who was billed as Vivian Oakland) move in

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

A grifter in a boxing scam learns a better way from an orphan and a beautiful girl.

A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.

The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.

California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.

Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.

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.

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.

Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.

The story begins in the locker room and the players learn that Andy has bet all their money on the game....which means they'll make out great IF they win. Otherwise, he's in big trouble. And, not surprisingly, it all boils down to the bottom of the 9th inning. Will Clyde be the hero or will his players collectively beat the stuffing out of him?

Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.

A lost silent short comedy.

The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car!

Mary has married Jack Langdon , the physical instructor of the young ladies' seminary where she is being schooled. Because she is underage and risks losing the fortune her uncle has left her, Mary is compelled to keep the marriage a secret, but a baby adds to the complications. At first the young couple leaves it in the care of an Indian woman. Waldo Pennanink , the son of the school's headmaster, becomes suspicious of all the time the couple is spending with the Indian woman and the baby.

A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.

Harry and Andy get involved with flappers.

Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.

Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.

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.

A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by dressing the players in early nineteenth century garb and having them adopt antiquated manners.

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner-collector.

A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.

When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.

A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson

An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.