Jackie Coogan

Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it...

A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with...

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny"...

A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting...

An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old...

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a...

William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eagerly prepares for the new arrival, as he is sure...

An orphan is adopted by a kindly old racehorse owner. He decides to pay back his benefactor by training to ride the horse so he can win an important...

The story of a kindly old lady, her involvement with midget race cars and their drivers.

The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.

A couple who have escaped from the Baltics to Copenhagen are pursued by a KGB officer.

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.

An all-star cast joins Red Skelton in this lavish 60-minute salute to circus clowns.

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

This short was made as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. In it, Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large...

An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and...

An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by...

Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York...

This portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions,...

A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the...

Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

First National gala celebrity banquet with stars.

A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.

The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous...

A comic look...at Cuba after Castro regime take over.

A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him.

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...

A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will...

J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's...

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

Inspectors for the U.S. Public Health Service try to track down the cause of a rash of mysterious ailments suddenly appearing among the general...

A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences...

A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn’t handle rejection well, who’s out to...

Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come...

A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.

Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira...

"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves...

The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its Hollywood backlot to property developers. The trouble is...

Three young couples set off into the mountains for a weekend of climbing, drinking and lovemaking; little do they know that they are stumbling into...

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get...

Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for...

Star of Chaplin's The Kid, Jackie Coogan, visits the Stoll Picture Productions studio building. He befriends a child actor named Harry Beasley, who...

The original TV Addams Family members prepare for Halloween.

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.

A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life.

The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback...

Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy...

An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.

Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or...

Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.

Following a live orchestra opening, emcee Eddie Garr greets the audience and tells them about his trip to Los Angeles, where out-of-work actors are...

A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.

Lucy pulls out all the stops in Las Vegas to see her favorite entertainer, Dean Martin. Lucy gets a job working at the MGM Grand casino and...

Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love...

Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold...

"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes...

Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.

A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.

Chicago mobster Big Frank hires rock & roll singer Rusty Wells and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale.

A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people...

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz,...

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the...

Danny, a ragamuffin orphan, is adopted by a brutal plumber and his frail wife. His fear of hunger, resulting from his foster father's indifference,...

10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.

Believing her husband to be unfaithful, Helene Savelli takes her son, Jackie, to the Holdens' farm and dies shortly afterward. The Holdens keep...

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild...

This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004.

Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell...

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).

Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island...

Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

When a cryptic note is passed to young Bert Hale by a stranger, he and his three friends inadvertently hold the key to unravelling the sinister plot...

With the Mystery Machine stuck in mud, Mystery Inc. ends up becoming housekeepers for the Addams Family while Gomez and Morticia go on vacation to...

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.

Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

John Astin sits down to discuss the genesis and production of the popular television series.

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".