Short film
The Boarding House Ham
1916 · 12 min
A featherweight silent comedy romp, all broad gestures and brisk slapstick, easy to dip into and gone before it wears out its welcome.
- Directed by
- Tom Persons
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Sidney Smith, Charles Le Moyne, Olga Celeste
- Overview
- Maggie De Cray and her daughter, Maybelle, run a theatrical boarding house. Horatio Payne is a star boarder. Olga Petrino, a vaudeville queen, arrives with her pet leopards. Horatio Payne makes eyes at Maybelle and incurs the enmity of Thomas Blake, a property man, who is fair Maybelle's intended.
- How it feels
- Brisk and fine in the background.
- About
- Love
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Tom Persons
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Sidney Smith, Charles Le Moyne, Olga Celeste
