Acting

Babe London

Born August 28, 1901 · Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Died November 29, 1980 · aged 79

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Babe London (born Jean Glover, August 28, 1901 – November 29, 1980) was an American actress and comedian, most remembered for her onetime-only partnership with Oliver Hardy, in the 1931 Laurel and Hardy two-reeler Our Wife. London began her screen career as a teenager, making her film debut in The Expert Eloper in 1919. She then appeared in A Day's Pleasure,…

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Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph · 1948

MovieThrillerCrime

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

Our Wife

Our Wife · 1931

Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · 1949

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

MovieComedyFantasy

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing in the Dark · 1949

Dancing in the Dark

MovieComedyRomance

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

The Balloonatic

The Balloonatic · 1923

The Balloonatic

MovieComedyRomance

Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.

Jackass Mail

Jackass Mail · 1942

MovieRomanceWestern

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

The Judge Steps Out

The Judge Steps Out · 1947

The Judge Steps Out

MovieDramaComedy

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

The Boob

The Boob · 1926

MovieComedyRomance

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.

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Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph · 1948

MovieThrillerCrime

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

Hotel Lady with Orchid (uncredited)

Our Wife

Our Wife · 1931

Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.

Dulcy, the bride (uncredited)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · 1949

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

MovieComedyFantasy

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.

Fat Woman (uncredited)

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing in the Dark · 1949

Dancing in the Dark

MovieComedyRomance

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Hula Girl

The Balloonatic

The Balloonatic · 1923

The Balloonatic

MovieComedyRomance

Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.

Fat Girl at The House of Trouble

Jackass Mail

Jackass Mail · 1942

MovieRomanceWestern

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Dancehall Girl

The Judge Steps Out

The Judge Steps Out · 1947

The Judge Steps Out

MovieDramaComedy

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

Mother at Party (uncredited)

The Boob

The Boob · 1926

MovieComedyRomance

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.

Fat Girl (uncredited)

All Aboard

All Aboard · 1927

MovieComedyRomance

Finding himself discharged from a shoe store job and the girl of his affections, May, Johnny gets away from it all by becoming a tour guide for a group of travelers visiting Eygpt. Once there, he is conned into changing places with an itinerant sheik.

Princess

Go West

Go West · 1925

MovieComedyWestern

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

Woman in Department Store (uncredited)

This Time for Keeps

This Time for Keeps · 1942

This Time for Keeps

MovieComedyRomance

A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.

Fat Lady in Theater Balcony

Jonah Jones

Jonah Jones · 1924

This two-reel Lloyd Hamilton comedy. Set in the bucolic countryside, the opening sequence introduces Ham and his girlfriend Babe London as "the hired man and his three acres of love.". Ham encounters an attractive, prosperous-looking young lady who is having car trouble. After gallantly fixing her flat tire and when he realizes that the young lady has left her purse behind with her address inside he sets out to return it, no doubt hoping for a reward, either monetary or romantic.

The Hired Man's Sweetheart

Sex Kittens Go to College

Sex Kittens Go to College · 1960

Sex Kittens Go to College

Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.

Miss Amanda Cadwallader

Kidding Katie

Kidding Katie · 1923

A 1923 Christie comedy starring Babe London and Dorothy Devore. Queenie (London) has sent a picture of her sister Katie (Devore) to her pen pal as if it was her. Now that the pen pal is in love and coming to meet Queenie in person, Katie has to pretend she is a child.

Queenie

A Day's Pleasure

A Day's Pleasure · 1919

A Day's Pleasure

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.

Large Husband's Seasick Wife (uncredited)

The Good Humor Man

The Good Humor Man · 1950

The Good Humor Man

MovieAdventureComedy

Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.

Inmate (uncredited)

The Princess from Hoboken

The Princess from Hoboken · 1927

The Princess from Hoboken

To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.

Princess Sonia Alexandernova Karpoff

Mr. Dynamite

Mr. Dynamite · 1941

A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.

Heavyset Ball-throw Target

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie's Punctured Romance · 1928

Tillie's Punctured Romance

The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.

Strong Woman

When the Clouds Roll By

When the Clouds Roll By · 1919

When the Clouds Roll By

MovieRomanceAction

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist.

Switchboard Operator

Scrambled Brains

Scrambled Brains · 1951

Scrambled Brains

Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.

Nora

Public Pigeon No. 1

Public Pigeon No. 1 · 1957

Public Pigeon No. 1

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

Heavy Woman (uncredited)

Hazard

MovieComedyDrama

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.

Matron (uncredited)

New Moon

New Moon · 1930

MovieDramaRomance

New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.

Buxom Peasant Girl on Ship

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon · 1955

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

SeriesAction & AdventureWestern

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon is an American action adventure northwestern television series based on the radio drama Challenge of the Yukon. It was initially broadcast in color on CBS across three seasons from September 29, 1955 to September 25, 1958. Richard Simmons stars as Sergeant William Preston, who patrols the Yukon Territory in search of renegades and outlaws, during the time of the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s.