Phyllis Allen
Acting
Biography
Phyllis Allen (November 25, 1861 – March 26, 1938) was an American vaudeville and silent screen comedian. She worked with Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and Mack Sennett during a film career spanning 74 movies in the decade between 1913 and 1923. Due to her imposing demeanour and perennially haughty expression, she was quite similar in appearance to fellow screen comedian Marie Dressler. [biography from Wikipedia]
Born: November 25, 1861
Place of Birth: Staten Island, New York, USA
Known For
The Chaplin Revue
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Pay Day
A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
The Adventurer
The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him…
The Pilgrim
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
The Vagabond
A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.
His Trysting Places
On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Dough and Dynamite
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
The Rounders
Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
The Head Waiter
The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides food, the scenes are garnished with a couple of trayfuls of beautiful girls.
Filmography
as Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Congregation Member (uncredited)
as His Wife
as Madame Le Moyne
as Minnie Fish
as Governess (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Jack's Real Wife
as A pugnacious guest
as Fatty's Mother-In-Law
as Shoe Customer
as Gussle's Wife
as Fatty's Mother
as Gussle's Wife
as Mrs. Gussle
as Audience Member (uncredited)
as The Bride
as Prison Matron / Restaurant Patron / Guest (uncredited)
as Fatty's Mother
as Mrs. Sniffels
as Amorous Dancing Cafe Patron (uncredited)
as Ambrose's Wife
as Flirty Woman
as Customer
as Minta's Mother
as The Girl's Mother
as Mrs. Full
as Lena Fat (uncredited)
as The Other Woman (unconfirmed)
as Cabaret Dancer (uncredited)
as Boarder (uncredited)
as Woman Hanging Out Washing (uncredited)
as Fatty's Wife
as (uncredited) (unconfirmed)