Movies by Alice Davenport

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Mabel's Strange Predicament

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

Passions, He Had Three

Passions, He Had Three

Henry is a big, fat country boy with three passions. He likes eggs, milk and girls. He steals the eggs from the nests, sucks their contents, and refills the shells with water. When the family sit down to breakfast and the shells are broken the crime is discovered and Farmer Jones places a big bear trap, covered with straw, in front of the nests.

Wife and Auto Trouble

Wife and Auto Trouble

A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.

Wished on Mabel

Wished on Mabel

Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.

Dirty Work in a Laundry

Dirty Work in a Laundry

After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.

A Bird's a Bird

A Bird's a Bird

Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.

Won in a Closet

Won in a Closet

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.

His Father's Footsteps

His Father's Footsteps

About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.

Mabel's Dramatic Career

Mabel's Dramatic Career

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.

Secrets of a Beauty Parlor

Secrets of a Beauty Parlor

Short comedy

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.

That Little Band Of Gold

That Little Band Of Gold

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.

Mabel Lost and Won

Mabel Lost and Won

Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess. When an annoying party guest persuades Mabel to dance with him, Mabel hurries through the dance and then goes to look for her fiancé, only to discover him caressing another woman. Her fiancé finds not only Mabel, but also her mother, very displeased, and not inclined to believe his explanation.

The Riot

The Riot

When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.

When Dreams Come True

When Dreams Come True

A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ministers for him.

Little Red Decides

Little Red Decides

Upon learning that the parents of "Little Red" have died, the cowboys of Colonel Ferdinand Aliso's ranch adopt the boy. Parson Jones and his church committee protest that the child should be brought up in more refined surroundings, but the cowboys, particularly Duck Sing, Aliso's Chinese cook, are so enamored of Little Red that they donate their poker money to the church to placate the congregation. After Little Red catches pneumonia and nearly dies, however, Dr. Kirk insists that the boy either live with the minister or acquire a mother thr...

A Noise from the Deep

A Noise from the Deep

Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.

Love and Rubbish

Love and Rubbish

Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.

The Telltale Light

The Telltale Light

The Telltale Light is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.