While You Wait

While You Wait

NR 1916 · 14 min · Comedy

Musty Suffer gets a job as a maid. Then he gets a job as a butler, in the same household. Then he gets a job as a gardener. This becomes complicated.

Directed by Louis Myll

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Musty's VacationMusty's Vacation · 1917
Musty's Vacation
★ 5.51917
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer, finding a meal ticket, resolves to take a vacation while eating is free. The café owner, however, discovers Musty’s face does not compare with the photograph on the ticket. Musty goes out to have it altered, thinking less of the face than he does of the meal ticket. He is completely recast in a steel foundry and returns to enjoy the free meals only to find that the restaurant has closed.
Hold Fast!Hold Fast! · 1916
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Musty Suffer gets accidentally kidnapped and has to box for his life.
Strictly PrivateStrictly Private · 1916
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Musty Suffer hunts wild horses in the bad lands of New Jersey. He captures a fine specimen and sells it, but it breaks away to join the fascinating Musty. The fairy tramp grants Musty's wish for a suit and cab, and goes into business.
Local ShowersLocal Showers · 1916
Local Showers
★ 5.01916
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer visits a "painless dentist"
Outs and InsOuts and Ins · 1916
Outs and Ins
★ 5.01916
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer gets a job as a chef and waiter at an automat restaurant. Various customers attempt to filch food or money from the coin slots, and Musty deals with the situation.
Out Of OrderOut Of Order · 1916
Out Of Order
★ 5.01916
MovieComedy
Musty is standing around in a state of confusion, so his fairy godfather appears to find him a job as a general factotum at an amusement gallery. Musty serves as a bootblack, a ticket-taker, a target at the shooting gallery and a rope to block off a non-working escalator.
Just ImaginationJust Imagination · 1916
Just Imagination
★ 5.01916
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer dreams of being subjected to psychological experiments by unethical doctors.
Going UpGoing Up · 1916
Going Up
1916
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer is invited to stay in a mansion; hilarity ensues.
Coming DownComing Down · 1916
Coming Down
1916
MovieComedy
Musty holds down a job as general factotum at the Busy Bee Amusement Arcade, one of his chief duties being that of taking tickets at the entrance to the moving stairway which leads to the cinema theater on the second floor.
Cruel and UnusualCruel and Unusual · 1916
Cruel and Unusual
1916
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer as a golf caddy.
Spliced and IcedSpliced and Iced · 1917
Spliced and Iced
1917
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer gets married.
The Lightning Bell-HopThe Lightning Bell-Hop · 1916
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1916
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer gets a job as a bell hop at a cheap little hotel, the Outside Inn.
Look Out BelowLook Out Below · 1916
Look Out Below
1916
MovieComedy
Musty and his friend, Willie Work, after a comfortable night's rest in a convenient henhouse, set out in search of adventure. They select a mansion with the intention of burglary, but are frightened away by a militant sawbuck. They are summoned by Mme. Cayenne, a jealously guarded wife, who promises them a fine lunch if they will mail a letter to her lover. They agree and the lunch is served. Just as they begin to eat, Senor Cayenne returns. Musty dives out of the second-floor window and hangs from the sill. Willie, who fails to escape, is introduced to Senor as Madame's brother from Kokomo, and royally entertained.
Blow Your HornBlow Your Horn · 1916
Blow Your Horn
1916
MovieComedy
Musty Suffer finds a bicycle and gets a job as a messenger; hilarity ensues, of course.
Bells and BellesBells and Belles · 1916
Bells and Belles
1916
MovieComedy
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When Ciderville Went DryWhen Ciderville Went Dry · 1915
When Ciderville Went Dry
1915
MovieComedy
Ciderville was wet, very much so, both inside and out, as was evidenced by the hilarious condition of some of its leading citizens, but the suffragettes struck town one day, and they proceeded to put the reverse on the well-known masculine thirst.

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