Sidney Smith Movies

Maggie De Cray and her daughter, Maybelle, run a theatrical boarding house. Horatio Payne is a star boarder. Olga Petrino, a vaudeville queen,...

A high-society woman films a vanity film of her dancing with a group of women. The premiere takes an hilariously disastrous turn when a lion gets...

Sid Smith plays a chauffeur to James Parrott who helps a vamp captivate his boss while foiling a bank robbery.

Percy & Ferdie at the nursery minding their babies with the mentality of Safety Last.

Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's daughter. To win her heart, he accepts to fight...

During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his...

Fun develops after a feud between a railroad president and a promoter, and takes the form of a race between the pathetic train and an auto bus...

An animator's dog gets the better of him

The boys, applying for free bread, find that the sign is used as a stall by a bootlegger who is dispensing hooch hidden in the loaves. After breaking...

A farce of comic characters, full of dream-like impossible doings that compel laughter through being so impossible. One of the characters is in a...

Dress shop owner Madame Maxine employs two chimps to serve in her establishment. It goes about as well as you would expect!

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile,...

The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."

Little Jerry elopes with a young girl whose parents have just divorced. The mother thinks the father (denied custody) has kidnapped her and, as it...

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

The pair are elegant down-and-outs in a park where a mother and her baby are having a picnic. Their dog steals the picnic basket for them but when...

Two rival suitors plot to win the girl using fair means or foul.

The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and...

“At Your Service” (aka James Manages a Restaurant), 1921, starring Sidney Smith, is a nice and inventive silent comedy. James and George...

A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver....