Vim Comedy Company
(Redirected from
Mark Dintenfass
)The Vim Comedy Company was a short-lived
Ethel Marie Burton, Walter Stull, Billy Ruge, Rosemary Theby, Billy Bletcher and his wife Arline Roberts, and Kate Price. At its peak Vim had a workforce of nearly 50 people. The Vim Comedy Company went out of business in 1917 after Oliver Hardy discovered that both Burstein and Dintenfass were stealing from the payroll.[1] Vim was bought out by the King-Bee Films
studio started by Burstein.
Films
The following films were produced by the Vim Comedy Company:[2]
Title | Release date | Series and starring actors |
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The Midnight Prowlers | November 1915 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
A Pair of Birds | November 1915 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Pressing Business | November 1915 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Strangled Harmony | December 1915 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Speed Kings | December 1915 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Mixed and Fixed | December 1915 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Ups and Downs | December 1915 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
This Way Out | January 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Chickens | January 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Frenzied Finance | January 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Busted Hearts | January 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Getaway | February 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The High Sign | February 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Pluck and Luck | February 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Love and Lather | February 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
A Pair of Skins | March 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Behind the Footlights | March 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Anvils and Actors | March 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
In the Ring | April 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Sleuths | April 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Hired and Fired | April 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Home Made Pies | May 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Pretenders | May 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
A Fair Exchange | May 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Villains and Violins | June 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Land Lubers | June 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
A Dollar Down | June 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Sea Dogs | June 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Hungry Hearts | June 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Raid | June 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
For Better or Worse | June 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
For Value Received | June 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Furnished Rooms | July 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Great Safe Tangle | July 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Help! Help! | July 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Wait a Minute | August 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Rushing Business | August 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Comrades | August 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Dreamy Knights | August 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Try Out | August 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Life Savers | August 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
A Bag of Troubles | September 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Love and Duty | September 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Reward | September 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Payment-in-Full | September 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Reformers | September 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Strictly Business | October 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
The Frame-Up | October 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Watch Your Watch | October 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Here and There | October 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
In the Ranks | November 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Hot Dogs | November 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Good and Proper | November 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Money-Maid Man | November 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
Ambitious Ethel | December 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
A Rare Boarder | December 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
What's the Use? | December 1916 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
War Correspondents | January 1917 | Pokes and Jabbs starring Walter Stull and Bobby Burns |
A Special Delivery | January 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
A Sticky Affair | February 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
One Too Many | February 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
The Serenade | March 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Nerve and Gasoline | March 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Their Vacation | March 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Momma's Boy | April 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
A Royal Battle | April 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
All for a Girl | April 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
What's Sauce for the Goose | April 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
The Brave Ones | May 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
The Water Cure | May 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Thirty Days | May 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Baby Doll | May 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
The Schemers | June 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Never Again | June 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Better Halves | June 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
A Day at School | July 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Spaghetti | July 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Aunt Bill | July 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
The Heroes | July 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Human Hounds | August 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Their Honeymoon | August 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
An Aerial Joyride | August 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Sidetracked | September 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Stranded | September 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Royal Blood | October 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
The Candy Trail | October 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
The Precious Parcel | October 1916 | Plump and Runt starring Oliver Hardy and Billy Ruge |
Housekeeping | July 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Hubby's Relative | August 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
That Tired Businessman | August 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Their Dream House | August 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
The Tormented Husband | August 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
The Chalk Line | September 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
His Strenuous Visit | September 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Artistic Atmosphere | September 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
A Grain of Suspicion | October 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Their Installment Furniture | October 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Green Eyes | October 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
A Persistent Wooing | September 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Gertie's Garters | November 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Marked "No Fund" | November 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
His Wedding Promise | November 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
The Good Stenographer | November 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Hubby's Chicken | November 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Charity Begins and Home | December 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
They Practice Economy | December 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
Her Financial Frenzy | December 1916 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
That's All Wrong | January 1917 | Harry Myers and Rosemary Theby
|
A Maid to Order | October 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
Twin Flats | November 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
A Warm Reception | November 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
Pipe Dreams | November 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
Mother's Child | November 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
The Prizewinners | November 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
The Guilty Ones | December 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
He Winked and Won | December 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
Fat and Fickle | December 1916 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
The Love Bugs | January 1917 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
The Boycotted Baby | January 1917 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
The Other Girl | January 1917 | Oliver Hardy and Kate Price |
Bungles' Rainy Day | February 1916 | Bungles starring Marcel Perez |
Bungles Enforces the Law | February 1916 | Bungles starring Marcel Perez |
Bungles' Elopement | March 1916 | Bungles starring Marcel Perez |
Bungles Lands a Job | March 1916 | Bungles starring Marcel Perez |
See also
References
- ^ a b "State Archives of Florida Online Catalog, Creator:Bletcher, Billy, 1894–1979, Title, Dates:Billy Bletcher's Vim Southern Studio motion picture photographs, 1915–1917". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
- ^ Miller (2013), pp. 55–56
- Laurel & Hardy: a bio-bibliography By Wes D. Gehring
- flickr – Vim Comedy Company: Jacksonville, Florida
Bibliography
- Blair Miller (2013). Almost Hollywood: The Forgotten Story of Jacksonville, Florida. Rowman & Littlefield.