Filmography

 

JOSEPHINE STEVENS

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Fatty's Plucky Pup
AKA [Foiled by Fido]
(1915) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [Fatty], Josephine Stevens, Phyllis Allen, Al St. John, Edgar Kennedy, Luke the dog

Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / © June 28, 1915 by Keystone Film Company. Released June 28, 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: Dog and Villain Story. [?] Completed or shipped? on June 10, 1915. / Print exists.

Comedy.

 

The Butcher Boy
(1917) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [the butcher boy], Al St. John, Buster Keaton [customer], Josephine Stevens, Arthur Earle, Agnes Neilson, Joe Bordeau (Joe Bordeaux), Luke the dog

Comique Film Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Roscoe Arbuckle, from a story by Joe Roach. Scenario editor Herbert Warren. Cinematography by Frank D. Williams. / © April 12, 1917 by Comique Film Corporation [LP10592]. Released April 23, 1917. Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy number A-3101. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Arbuckle's first Comique film. Keaton's first film. Shot at the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation studios in New York, New York. / Print exists.

Comedy.

 

The Rough House
AKA [A Rough House]
(1917) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [Mr. Rough], Al St. John [cook], Buster Keaton [gardener, delivery boy, policeman], Alice Lake [Mrs. Rough], Agnes Neilson [mother-in-law], Glen Cavender, Josephine Stevens

Comique Film Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Roscoe Arbuckle, from a story by Joe Roach. Scenario editor Herbert Warren. Cinematography by Frank D. Williams. / © June 20, 1917 by Comique Film Corporation [LP10972]. Released June 25, 1917. Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy number A-3103. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Shot at the Norman Talmadge Film Corporation studio in New York, New York. / Print exists.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [Synopsis from Motion Picture World, June 16, 1917, page 1809]: Mr. & Mrs. Rough live happily in a house by the sea until Mrs. Rough's mother arrives and stays for a few weeks. Mother-in-law immediately begins to disturb the tranquility of the household. Also includes a cabaret scene and a conflagration in a bedroom.

 

His Wedding Night
(1917) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [soda jerk], Al St. John [rival suitor], Buster Keaton [delivery boy], Alice Mann [Alice], Arthur Earle, James Bryant, Josephine Stevens [customer]

Comique Film Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Roscoe Arbuckle , from a story by Joe Roach. Scenario editor Herbert Warren. Cinematography by George Peters. / © August 20, 1917 by Comique Film Corporation [LP11286]. Released August 20, 1917. Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy number A-3104. /Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Shot at the Selznick studios in New York, New York. / The film is presumed lost.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [Synopsis from Motion Picture World, September 8, 1917, page 1523]: Fatty is a soda clerk in a country drugstore (Koff & Kramp Druggists). Gags include: Fatty juggles egg & milk, strains through a comb, and brushes off foam with a hairbrush; provides beer for a customer with a wink; gives charcoal to a Negress who comes in for powder. At the gas station, different prices for a Rolls-Royce and a Ford. Fatty overcomes a rival suitor who then plans to kidnap the bride.

Oh, You Women! (1919)

Famous Players Lasky Corp.

Directed by
John Emerson (I) 

Writing credits
John Emerson (I)  (story)
Anita Loos 
  Credited cast overview: Ernest Truex as Abraham Lincoln Jones: Joseph Burke (II) as Joe Bush: Bernard Randall as Alec Smart: Gaston Glass as Jimmy Johnson: Louise Huff as Mary Shelby: Betty Wales as Ethel Johnson: Merceita Esmond as Alice Wilson: Ida Fitzhugh as Aurora Noyes: Josephine Stevens as Lotta Noye.

Comedy, Black and white, silent.

 

Stage Productions

 

The Argyle Case Opening: Dec. 24, 1912 at the Criterion Theatre1

 Daddy Long Legs  Opening: ?1

Capt. Kidd Jr. Opening: Nov. 13, 1916 at Cohan and Harris1

It Happens To Everyone Opening: May 19, 1919 at the Park Theatre2

Go-Go  Opening: Mar. 12, 1923 at Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre2

Virginia Runs Away  Opening: Oct. 1, 1923 at Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre2

 

 

Sources

 

Silent Era  http://www.silentera.com/index.html

The Internet Movie Database  http://us.imdb.com/Title?0010518

The Internet Broadway Database   http://www.ibdb.com/

Moving Picture World Article April 21, 1917

 

 

 

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1 Per the April 21, 1917 issue of THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Some data may have been obtained from the IBDB

1 Per the April 21, 1917 issue of THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Some data may have been obtained from the IBDB

1 Per the April 21, 1917 issue of THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Some data may have been obtained from the IBDB

 

2 Information from the http://www.ibdb.com/

2 Information from the http://www.ibdb.com/

2 Information from the http://www.ibdb.com/