The best Arthur V. Johnson’s comedy movies

Arthur V. Johnson

Arthur V. Johnson

02/02/1876- 17/01/1916
Today we present the best Arthur V. Johnson’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Arthur V. Johnson’s movies.

Those Awful Hats

Those Awful Hats
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/01/1909
  • Character: Theatre Audience
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

Getting Even

Getting Even
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/09/1909
  • Character: Party Guest
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When his disguise is revealed, the other men are too embarrassed to approach Lucy, and Bud dances the rest of the night with her.

The Curtain Pole

The Curtain Pole
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/02/1909
  • Character: Man in bar / Vegetable vendor / Party guest
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.

The Day After

The Day After
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/12/1909
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.

Faithful

Faithful
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 20/03/1910
  • Character: John Dobbs [Adonese]
Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp 'Faithful' and knocks him over. Feeling sorry for him, Adonese helps him up and buys him a new suit of clothes. The naively innocent Faithful reads too much into this gesture, and he begins to follow his benefactor everywhere, expecting to receive future gifts.

Mr. Jones at the Ball

Mr. Jones at the Ball
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1908
  • Character: Guest
Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
5.4/10
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

They Would Elope

They Would Elope
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/08/1909
Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home.

The Gibson Goddess

The Gibson Goddess
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1909
  • Character: An Admirer
A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limbs appear misshapen. All but one of the men is driven off, and regret it when she removes the misleading leggings.

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