Movies by Ford Sterling

Between Showers

Between Showers

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

The Waiters' Picnic

The Waiters' Picnic

Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.

Don't Weaken!

Don't Weaken!

A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.

Everybody's Acting

Everybody's Acting

Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had nev...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.

Keystone Hotel

Keystone Hotel

The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.

Black Sheep

Black Sheep

On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.

The Speed Kings

The Speed Kings

Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.

Wild Oranges

Wild Oranges

Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie. One day widower John Woolfolk, sailing on his yacht, happens upon the island. Soon he and Millie fall in love. Will jealous Nicholas stand for this?

Bride of the Regiment

Bride of the Regiment

As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.

Sally

Sally

Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.

A Thief Catcher

A Thief Catcher

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.

Behind the Green Lights

Behind the Green Lights

A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).

Gentleman Burglar

Gentleman Burglar

Baffles, Gentleman Burglar

The Fatal Taxicab

The Fatal Taxicab

The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.

The Girl in the Show

The Girl in the Show

In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.

Wine

Wine

Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life

When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney Oldfield for help.

Hearts and Flowers

Hearts and Flowers

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

A Quiet Fourth

A Quiet Fourth

An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.