Earle Rodney
Total Credits at Criticker: 15 (Actor), 10 (Director), 41 (Writer)
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Run, Girl, Run (1928) - Short Film
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills. (imdb)
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I Surrender Dear (1931) - Short Film
A girl, in love with the radio voice of Bing Crosby, is kissed by him in mistake for his sister; she won't believe it's him, and in a slapstick search through hotel corridors for his new flame, Bing runs afoul of a married woman with jealous husband. (imdb)
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Sing, Bing, Sing (1933) - Short Film
After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again. (imdb)
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The Campus Carmen (1928) - Short Film
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard. (imdb)
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The Fainting Lover (1931) - Short Film
This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, especially at a gathering where Dr. Dudley Smith, accomplished musician, artist, sportsman, lecturer, world traveler, singer, dancer and worker of cross-word puzzles, is putting heavy moves on Helen, Bert's intended. (imdb)
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Movie-Town (1931) - Short Film
In this fictional film with fictional characters, Baron Gonzola (Luis Alberni)is trying to sell Mack Sennett (Mack Sennett) and William Beaudine (William Beaudine)on the idea of starring his new prodigy, Marge (Marjorie Beebe) in one of their films. Set around a swimming pool in which Sennett's bathing beauties take a back seat to diving-and-swimming champion of the time, and then moves to a nightclub set featuring George Olsen) and his orchestra.
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The Golfers (1929) - Short Film
Charlie Guest (Charlie Guest) wants to be a golfer. Bert Swor (Bert Swor) is a famous golfer. Thelma Hill (Thelma Hill) only loves the best golfer. Follow Charlie as he tries to become the world's greatest golfer and win Thelma's love. (imdb)
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Billboard Girl (1932) - Short Film
Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates. (imdb)
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A man wins a dance contest at a cabaret, but his wife hears it on the radio and decides to get back at him.
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Bulls and Bears (1930) - Short Film
Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
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Lloyd, Marjorie and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the gals sell music sheets. He's got eyes for Marjorie, but she feels she can do better, and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.
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Smith's Picnic (1926) - Short Film
The accident-prone Smith family (Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt, and Mary Ann Jackson) head to the beach in this Mack Sennett comedy directed by Alf Goulding. There they spoil a picnic held by "The Optimist's' Club," quickly turning the members into pessimists. This reconstructed version features racy scenes of starlet Mildred June in lingerie and having her bathing suit torn off by a fishing pole that were only included in prints shown in Germany.
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The Girl in the Tonneau (1932) - Short Film
When the story begins, Dad insists that his daughter not marry some reporter but instead marry Luis. The problem is that Luis is a playboy and he's got Dad fooled. But when the three of them go on a hunting trip, the lady Luis jilted shows up and things get crazy. And, after this 'lady' burns up all of their clothes, Dad and his daughter are forced to try to drive home in the PJs...when they are stopped by a cop.
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Monkey Business in Africa (1931) - Short Film
When the story begins, an airplane flying over Africa runs out of gas and the filmmaker and his team are forced to bail out. Once on the ground, all sorts of hijinks occur...such as a fight with a crocodile and a guy in a gorilla suit.
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One More Chance (1931) - Short Film
Bing Bangs (Crosby) is a salesman for "Magic" washing machines and his demonstration of the machine at the beginning of the film results in disaster. Crosby later gains a transfer from Hoboken to California and he drives his wife Ethel and her Uncle Joe (who dislikes Bing) in an open car on the journey having many adventures en route.
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Clancy at the Bat (1929) - Short Film
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?
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A Hollywood Star (1929) - Short Film
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.
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Fat Wives for Thin (1930) - Short Film
The short is a domestic comedy starring Marjorie Beebe and George Barraud. It begins with the husband berating his wife for being fat. Later, you learn that the husband is actually running around with a married woman and her husband is extremely jealous...and violent. What happens next? Well, surprisingly, the 'fat' wife comes to the rescue!
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The Chumps (1930) - Short Film
When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with what they THINK is a nice couple...not realizing they are card sharps. They crooks are spotted on the train and are warned NOT to take advantage of other passengers...so they invite the couple to their home in order to fleece them. Does the plan go as the crooks planned?
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One Yard to Go (1931) - Short Film
Marjorie (Marjorie Beebe) is being wooed by the effete and broke Sir Herbert in this Mack Sennett production for Educational Pictures. Her mother wants Marjorie to marry this upper class twit, though the audience sure doesn't! Marjorie plans on pleasing her mother but soon meets a very handsome young man and is smitten...but he's just a 'lowly ice man' and mother doesn't approve.
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Honeymoon Zeppelin (1930) - Short Film
Nick Stuart & Marjorie Beebe in "romantic" air-scapades that ends up in Zeppelin.
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The Boudoir Butler (1932) - Short Film
When the story begins, Andy's wife has convinced him to join her in a ruse. It seems that a man is looking for widows to invest in his company...which SHOULD have alerted her that the guy was up to no good. But instead, she convinces her husband to pretend to be the butler and help her entertain the guy.
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The New Half Back (1929) - Short Film
Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.
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Ex-Sweeties (1931) - Short Film
Harry Gribbon runs a boarding house, which creates chaotic situations in this Mack Sennett comedy.
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Harry Gribbon is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Geneva Mitchell. A jealous rival tries sabotaging Harry.
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Shopping with Wifie (1932) - Short Film
Andy Clyde and his buddy are planning on getting an early start fishing. However, when Andy's adoring wife gets involved, though she says she wants him to go, she sure prevents him from going fishing.
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Courting Trouble (1932) - Short Film
When the story begins, Charlie (Charlie Murray) is fighting with his overbearing mother-in-law. The old battleaxe lives with Charlie and his wife and she orders Charlie about as if she's his wife. Charlie wants to go out to the lodge meeting with his pals...and the mother-in-law insists he stay home. An argument (which is way overdone) results but Charlie is able to get away thanks to a friend who pretends to be a cop.
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The Flirty Sleepwalker (1932) - Short Film
A Mack Sennett Talking Picture comedy about a sleepwalker cause embarrassing situations.
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Listening In (1932) - Short Film
Arthur Stone gets into trouble due to a crossed phone line in this Mack Sennett comedy.
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The Great Pie Mystery (1931) - Short Film
A master criminologist examines clues which may lead him to a missing diamond necklace, or to whoever is throwing pies. A clue leads to a subplot about Harry Gribbon selling eggs and getting married at shotgun.
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No, No, Lady (1931) - Short Film
When the story begins, a couple are rehearsing a play...one that is REALLY hard to believe. In the play, the cheating wife convinces her mousy and ineffectual husband to not only condone this affair but help pay for the lovers to run off together!! The director things the whole thing is unbelievable, so the couple from the play decide to act it out with her real life husband...the mousy and ineffectual Ed Martin (Andy Clyde).
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Poker Widows (1931) - Short Film
Dance instructor Arthur Stone's wife, Gertrude Astor, is a jealous woman. Patsy O'Leary's husband, Wade Boteler, is a jealous man. Boteler goes out to play poker every night, so Miss O'Leary phones Stone for a private dance lesson at her apartment. When there's a knock at the door, Stone goes out the window and enters an apartment, where Boteler is playing poker.
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Racket Cheers (1930) - Short Film
Andy Clyde and Daphne Pollard are nouveaux riches moving into a posh neighbourhood and trying to impress though their behaviour is gross and gauche.
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The Cannonball (1931) - Short Film
Andy fixes his rocket invention to a locomotive in order to win a race with a bus.
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The Albany Branch (1931) - Short Film
Pert Kelton and Tom Dugan star in this 1931 short directed by Mack Sennett, having a little dinner party.
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