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The Traveling Salesman. r5 Jun 1921. c2 Jun 1921. 5 reels. 4,514 feet. Paramount Production No. 350 (#2076). Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro/cc). Paramount Pictures (dist). Joseph Henabery (dir). James Grant Forbes (play). Walter Woods (scen). Karl Brown (cam). Roscoe Arbuckle (Bob Blake), Betty Ross Clark (Beth Elliott), Frank Holland (Franklin Royce), Wilton Taylor (Martin Drury), Lucille Ward (Mrs Babbitt), Jim Blackwell (Julius), Richard Wayne (Ted Watts), George C. Pearce (John Kimball), Robert Dudley (Pierce Gill), Gordon Rogers (Bill Crabb). This picture should not be confused with The Traveling Salesman produced by Famous Players Film Company, presented by Daniel Frohman and released by Paramount Pictures in 1916. Picture produced between 10 Jun 1920 and 12 Jul 1920; completed before Brewster’s Millions and The Dollar a Year Man, but released later.
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Gasoline Gus. r20 Aug 1921. No copyright. 5 reels. Colour (tinted and toned). Paramount Production No. 378 (#2112). Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro). Paramount Pictures (dist). Jesse L. Lasky (pres). Frank E. Woods (sup). James Cruze (dir). Vernon Keays (asst dir). George Patullo (story: Saturday Evening Post). Walter Woods (adapt/scen). Karl Brown (cam). Roscoe Arbuckle (Augustus ‘Gasoline Gus’ Peeler), Lila Lee (Sal Jo Banty), Charles Ogle (Nate Newberry), Theodore Lorch (‘Dry Check’ Charlie), Wilton Taylor (Judge Shortredge), Knute Erickson (‘Scrap Iron’ Swenson), Fred W. Huntley (Don Rayburn). Adapted from two Patullo stories, ‘Gasoline Gus’ and ‘Drycheck Charlie’ which appeared in Saturday Evening Post. Picture produced between 21 Mar 1921 and 14 Apr 1921. Withdrawn from United States distribution in September 1921.
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Crazy to Marry. (Three Miles Out). r28 Aug 1921; c28 Aug 1921. 5 reels. 4,693; 4,761; or 5,402 feet. Colour (tinted and toned). Paramount Production No. 372 (#2098). Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro/cc). Paramount Pictures (dist). Jesse L. Lasky (pres). Frank E. Woods (sup). James Cruze (dir). Vernon Keays (asst dir). Frank Condon (story). Walter Woods (scen). Karl Brown (cam). Max Parker (art dir). Roscoe Arbuckle (Dr Hobart Hupp), Lila Lee (Annabelle Landis), Lura Anson (Estrella De Morgan), Edwin Stevens (Henry De Morgan), Lillian Leighton (Sarah De Morgan), Bull Montana (Dago Red, a crook), Allen Durnell (Arthur Simmons), Sidney Bracy (Colonel Landis), Genevieve Blinn (Mrs Landis), Clarence Burton (Gregory Slade, a lawyer), Henry Johnson (Norman Gregory, his son), Charles Ogle (cement man), Jackie Young (cupid), Lucien Littlefield (minister). Picture produced between 17 Jan 1921 and 19 Feb 1921; completed before Gasoline Gus, but released later. Also known as Three Miles Out.
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Leap Year. (Skirt Shy). r (scheduled) 1921. No copyright. 5 reels. 4,767 feet. Paramount Production No. 389 (#2128). Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro). Paramount Pictures (dist). Adolph Zukor (pres). James Cruze (dir). Vernon Keays (asst dir). Sarah Y. Mason (story). Walter Woods (scen). Karl Brown (cam). Roscoe Arbuckle (Stanley Piper), Mary Thurman (Phyllis Brown), Lucien Littlefield (Jeremiah Piper), Harriet Hammond (Loris Keene), Maude Wayne (Irene Rutherford), Clarence Geldart (Scott Travis), Winifred Greenwood (Mrs Scott Travis), Allen Durnell (Tommy Blaine), Gertrude Short (Molly Morris), John McKinnon (Mumford). Picture produced between 16 May 1921 and 9 Jun 1921 under the working title Should a Man Marry? Picture completed and title changed to Skirt Shy, but not released in United States. Picture released in Europe 26 Mar 1922 as Leap Year. Also known as This Is So Sudden.
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Freight Prepaid. (Via Fast Freight). r (scheduled) 1921. No copyright. 5 reels. Paramount Production No. 397 (#2176). Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro). Paramount Pictures (dist). James Cruze (dir). Curtis Benton (story). Roscoe Arbuckle (Erastus Berry), Lila Lee (Bonnie Daly), Nigel Barrie (John Hammond), Herbert Standing (Mr Hammond), Raymond Hatton (minister). Picture produced between 18 Jul 1921 and 13 Aug 1921 under the working title Via Fast Freight. Exterior scenes filmed on location in Chicago. Picture completed and title changed to Freight Prepaid, but not released in United States. Picture released in Europe 18 Jun 1922. Also known as Fast Freight; The Fast Freight; Handle With Care.
FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY (1922)
(Intended Arbuckle Pictures)
Famous Players-Lasky intended to star Arbuckle in the following feature-length pictures, which were given to other stars:
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‘The Melancholy Spirit.’ r (scheduled) 1922. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro). Picture begun with Arbuckle in September 1921 under the working title The Melancholy Spirit. Production under the supervision of Frank E. Woods, directed by James Cruze from an original story by James Cruze and A. B. Barringer, scenario by Walter Woods, and camera by Karl Brown. Production was suspended, story revised under the title Ek, A Fighting Soul, and picture given to Will Rogers, with Lila Lee, Alan Hale, John Fox, George Nichols, Emily Rait, Knute Erickson. Title changed to One Glorious Day and picture released in 5 reels by Paramount Pictures on 5 Feb 1922.
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‘Thirty Days.’ r (scheduled) 1922. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro). Picture intended for Arbuckle, but given to Wallace Reid, with Wanda Hawley, Charles Ogle, Cyril Chadwick, Hershall Mayall, Helen Dunbar, Carmen Phillips, Kalla Pasha, Robert Brower. Picture produced between 24 Aug 1922 and 9 Sep 1922; released as Thirty Days in 5 reels by Paramount Pictures on 10 Dec 1922.
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‘The Man From Mexico.’ r (scheduled) 1922. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro). Picture intended for Arbuckle as remake of Man From Mexico (Paramount-Famous Players, 1914) starring John Barrymore and based upon the Henry A. Du Souchet stage play, The Man From Mexico. Picture given to Richard Dix, with Lois Wilson, Nat Pendleton, Douglas MacPherson, Gunboat Smith, Joseph Kilgour, Tom Findley, Edna May Oliver. Title changed to Let’s Get Married and picture released in 7 reels by Paramount Pictures on 29 Mar 1926.
Famous Players-Lasky intended to star Arbuckle in the following feature-length picture, which was not produced.
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‘Are You a Mason?’ r (scheduled) 1922. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro). Picture intended for Arbuckle as remake of Are You a Mason? (Paramount-Famous Players, 1915) starring John Barrymore and based upon the Leo Ditrichstein stage play, Are You a Mason? Picture rights sold by Paramount to Twickenham Film Studios in London in 1934 for Are You a Mason? (Universal-Olympic, 1934). Rights were bought back in 1941 for possible feature for Bob Hope or Jack Benny, but picture was not produced.
GAVIN McNAB (1923)
(Intended Arbuckle Picture)
Arbuckle’s attorney Gavin McNab and associates financed the following two-reel picture to be Arbuckle’s first starring role in films after the scandal.
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‘Handy Andy.’ r (scheduled) 1923. No copyright. 2 reels. Gavin McNab (pro). Herman Raymaker (dir). Roscoe Arbuckle, Molly Malone. Arbuckle suspended work on this production in February 1923 and announced his return to the screen as director, not as comedian. Picture may have been completed but was not released in the United States.
FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY (1923)
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Hollywood r19 Aug 1923. c10 Jul 1923. 8 reels. 8,100 feet. Paramount Production No. 477. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (pro/cc). Paramount Pictures (dist). Jesse L. Lasky (pres). James Cruze (dir). Frank Condon (story). Tom Geraghty (adapt). Karl Brown (cam). Hope Drown (Angela Whitaker), Luke Cosgrave (Joel Whitaker), George K. Arthur (Lem Lefferts), Ruby Lafayette (Grandmother Whitaker), Harris Gordon (Dr Luke Morrison), Bess Flowers (Hortense Towers), Eleanor Lawson (Margaret Whitaker), King Zany (Horace Pringle), Roscoe Arbuckle (man in casting director’s office). Also Gertrude Astor, Mary Astor, Agnes Ayres, Baby Peggy, T. Roy Barnes, Noah Beery, William Boyd, Clarence Burton, Robert Cain, Edythe Chapman, Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Viola Dana, Cecil B. DeMille, William DeMille, Charles DeRoche, Dinky Dean, Helen Dunbar, Snitz Edwards, George Fawcett, Julia Faye, James Finlayson, Alec B. Francis, Jack Gardner, Sid Grauman, Alfred E. Green, Alan Hale, Lloyd Hamilton, Hope Hampton, William S. Hart, Gale Henry, Walter Hiers, Mrs Walter Hiers, Stuart Holmes, Sigrid Holmquist, Jack Holt, Leatrice Joy, Mayme Kelso, J. Warren Kerrigan, Theodore Kosloff, Kosloff Dancers, Lila Lee, Lillian Leighton, Jacqueline Logan, Mae McAvoy, Robert McKim, Jeanie Macpherson, Hank Mann, Joe Martin, Thomas Meighan, Bull Montana, Owen Moore, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Anna Q. Nilsson, Charles Ogle, Guy Oliver, Kalla Pasha, Eileen Percy, Carmen Phillips, Jack Pickford, Chuck Reisner, Fritzi Ridgeway, Will Rogers, Sennett Girls, Ford Sterling, Anita Stewart, George Stewart, Gloria Swanson, Estelle Taylor, Ben Turpin, Bryant Washburn, Maude Wayne, Claire West, Laurence Wheat, Lois Wilson. Picture produced between 15 Feb 1923 and 3 May 1923.
EDUCATIONAL (1923)
(Disputed Arbuckle Pictures)
Educational Tuxedo Comedies were produced by Reel Comedies, Inc. and distributed by the Educational Film Exchanges. Arbuckle began his affiliation with Reel Comedies in February 1923 and may have worked as director, writer, supervising director and/or producer on the following pictures:
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Easter Bonnets. r26 Aug 1923. No copyright. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Ned Sparks, Harry Tighe, Marion Harlan, Doris Deane. First release in the Tuxedo Comedies series.
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Front! r17 Oct 1923. No copyright. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Poodles Hanneford.
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No Loafing. r25 Nov 1923. No copyright. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Poodles Hanneford.
EDUCATIONAL (1924)
(Disputed Arbuckle Pictures)
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One Night It Rained. r20 Jan 1924. No copyright. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Ned Sparks, Harry Tighe, Doris Deane.
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The New Sheriff. r16 Mar 1924. No copyright. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Poodles Hanneford.
METRO (1924)
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Sherlock, Jr. r21 Apr 1924. c22 Apr 1924. 5 reels. Joseph M. Schenck (pro/cc). Metro Pictures Corporation (dist). Buster Keaton (dir). Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman (writs/adapts). Fred Gabourie (sets). Clare West (ward). Elgin Lessley, Byron Houck (cam). Buster Keaton (Sherlock, Jr), Kathryn McGuire (girl), Joe Keaton (her father), Ward Crane (rival), Erwin Connelly (his henchman), Jane Connelly, Ford West, George Davis, Horace Morgan, John Patrick, Ruth Holley. According to Keaton, Arbuckle directed this picture’s first few days of production until personal problems on set forced Keaton to assume full control as director. According to Doris Deane, Arbuckle wrote and directed this picture as well as other Keaton pictures for which he was not given screen credit.
EDUCATIONAL (1924)
(Disputed Arbuckle Pictures)
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The Bonehead. r18 May 1924. No copyright. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Poodles Hanneford.
Al St John received official credit as director and writer for his first four Tuxedo Comedies, and Grover Jones received credit as director for St John’s three remaining Tuxedo Comedies. According to Doris Deane, Arbuckle was director on set and writer for all Tuxedo Comedies starring Al St John.
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His First Car. r27 Jul 1924. No copyright. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Al St John (dir/writ). Al St John, Doris Deane, George Davis, Blanche Payson. Al St John’s first picture in the Tuxedo Comedies series.
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Never Again. r24 Aug 1924. c24 Aug 1924. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro/cc). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Al St John (dir/writ). Al St John, Doris Deane, Blanche Payson.
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Stupid But Brave. r26 Oct 1924. c27 Oct 1924. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro/cc). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Al St John (dir/writ). Al St John, Doris Deane.
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Lovemania. r28 Dec 1924. c28 Dec 1924. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro/cc). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Al St John (dir/writ). Al St John, Doris Deane, George Davis, Glen Cavender.
EDUCATIONAL (1925)
(Disputed Arbuckle Pictures)
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Dynamite Doggie. r Mar 1925. c6 Apr 1925. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro/cc). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Grover Jones (dir). Al St John.
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The Iron Mule. r12 Apr 1925. c4 May 1925. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro/cc). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Grover Jones (dir). Al St John, Doris Deane, George Davis, Glen Cavender. Burlesque of John Ford’s The Iron Horse (Fox, 1924).
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Curses. r May 1925. c21 May 1925. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Reel Comedies (pro/cc). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). Grover Jones (dir). Al St John.
EDUCATIONAL (1925)
Arbuckle adopted the pseudonym William Goodrich and used this name from 1925 to 1932. Tuxedo Comedies starring Johnny Arthur were produced by Goodwill Comedies, Inc.; Arbuckle worked as director and writer on this series, and may have been producer and/or supervising director. Lloyd Hamilton Comedies were produced by the Lloyd Hamilton Corporation and the Lupino Lane Comedies by Lupino Lane Comedy Corporation. These three series were distributed by Educational Film Exchanges and produced at the Educational studio at 7250 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
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The Tourist. r20 Sep 1925. c24 Sep 1925. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/cc). Goodwill Comedies (pro). William Goodrich (dir). Johnny Arthur, Helen Foster. First of the Tuxedo Comedies starring Johnny Arthur.
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The Movies. r4 Oct 1925. c13 Oct 1925. 2 reels. Hamilton Comedies. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/cc). Lloyd Hamilton Corporation (pro). William Goodrich (dir/writ). Lloyd Hamilton (country boy/screen comedy star), Marcella Daley (actress), Arthur Thalasso (villain), Frank Jonasson (director), Glen Cavender (traffic officer). Filmed at Montmartre Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard and at the Educational studio in Los Angeles, California.
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER (1925)
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Go West. r1 Nov 1925. c23 Nov 1925. New York premiere 25 Oct 1925. 7 reels. 6,293 feet. Buster Keaton Productions (pro/cc). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (dist). Joseph M. Schenck (pro/pres). Buster Keaton (dir/story). Raymond Cannon (scen). Elgin Lessley, Bert Haines (cam). Buster Keaton (Friendless), Howard Truesdale (owner of Diamond Bar Ranch), Kathleen Myers (his daughter), Ray Thompson (foreman), Roscoe Arbuckle (bit as big lady in department store), Babe London (‘her’ daughter), Brown Eyes (cow).
EDUCATIONAL (1925)
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Cleaning Up. r22 Nov 1925. c2 Jan 1926. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/cc). Goodwill Comedies (pro). William Goodrich (dir/writ). Johnny Arthur, George Davis.
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The Fighting Dude. r6 Dec 1925. c29 Dec 1925. 2 reels. Lupino Lane Comedies. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/ cc). Lupino Lane Comedy Corporation (pro). William Goodrich (dir/writ). Lupino Lane (hero), Virginia Vance (girl), Wallace Lupino (villain), Glen Cavender (referee), George Davis.
EDUCATIONAL (1926)
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My Stars. r17 Jan 1926. c17 Mar 1926. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/cc). Goodwill Comedies (pro). William Goodrich (dir/writ). Johnny Arthur, Virginia Vance, Florence Lee, Glen Cavender, George Davis.
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Home Cured. r14 Mar 1926. c14 Mar 1926. 2 reels. Tuxedo Comedies. Christie Film Company [sic] (cc). Goodwill Comedies (pro). Educational Film Exchanges (dist). William Goodrich (dir). Vernon Keays (asst dir). Donna Barrell (story). Byron Houck (cam). Johnny Arthur (hypochondriac husband), Virginia Vance (his wife), Glen Cavender, George Davis.
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Fool’s Luck, r21 Mar 1926. c22 Jun 1926. 2 reels. Lupino Lane Comedies. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/cc). Lupino Lane Comedy Corporation (pro). William Goodrich (dir/writ). Bert Houck (cam). Lupino Lane (rich youth), Virginia Vance (his fiancée), George Davis (sissy valet), Jack Lloyd.
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His Private Life. r16 May 1926. c10 May 1926. 2 reels. Lupino Lane Comedies. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/ cc). Lupino Lane Comedy Corporation (pro). William Goodrich (dir/writ). Lupino Lane (Army private, once a foppish young millionaire), Virginia Vance (girl), Glen Cavender (officer), George Davis (sergeant).
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One Sunday Morning. r12 Dec 1926. c14 Dec 1926. 2 reels. Hamilton Comedies. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/cc). Lloyd Hamilton Corporation (pro). William Goodrich (dir/writ). William Nobles (cam). Lloyd Hamilton.
EDUCATIONAL (1927)
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Peaceful Oscar. r30 Jan 1927. c30 Jan 1927. 2 reels. Educational-Hamilton Comedy. Educational Film Exchanges (dist/cc). Lloyd Hamilton Corporation (pro). William Goodrich (dir). Lloyd Hamilton.
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER (1927)
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The Red Mill. r29 Jan 1927. c2 Mar 1927. 7 reels. 6,337 feet. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation (dist/cc). Cosmopolitan Productions (pro). William Goodrich, King Vidor (dirs). Victor Herbert, Henry Martyn Blossom (musical comedy play). Frances Marion (adapt/scen). Joe Farnham (titl). Hendrik Sartov (cam). Cedric Gibbons, Merrill Pye (sets). Daniel J. Gray (film ed). Andre-ani (ward). Marion Davies (Tina), Owen Moore (Dennis), Louise Fazenda (Gretchen), George Siegmann (Willem), Karl Dane (Captain Edam), J. Russell Powell (burgomaster), Snitz Edwards (Caesar), William Orlamond (governor), Fred Gambold (innkeeper), Ignatz (mouse). Due to William R. Hearst’s dissatisfaction with Arbuckle’s direction, King Vidor was brought on to the film and finished it with Arbuckle. Arbuckle alone received official credit as director.
