''One Too Many'' is a 1916 American
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
starring
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1926 to 1957. He appeared with his c ...
.
Plot
Plump wakes with a hangover. He finds a note under the door from his uncle saying he will visit him "and his wife and baby" at 2 o'clock. It is 11am and he has no wife and baby. He is staying in a hotel. The bellboy is trying to take a heavy trunk upstairs. He gives the bellboy $50 to find him a baby. He finds a toddler in another room and is then asked to find a wife. Plump's friend Roy enters the room with the child and moves the child. The bellboy bribes the janitor's wife to play Plump's wife. He goes outside and hires a baby from a woman.
Meanwhile Plump finds the first baby and takes it back. The bellboy is collecting children including a little black girl. The first child's mother returns and finds her child with Plump. She takes him away but Roy steals it again. He hides in a cupboard. The bellboy brings a cot up and Plump pays him to "be the baby". Uncle John arrives as Plump is shaving he stubble off his baby. The child starts crying from he cupboard... then the wives begin to appear.
Cast
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Oliver Hardy
Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1926 to 1957. He appeared with his c ...
as Plump (as Babe Hardy)
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Billy Ruge
Billy Ruge (c.1866/1870–1955) was an American film actor. His early career was spent as an aerial trapeze acrobat in an act with partner Bill Frobel: Ruge and Frobel played Montreal in 1899,
and shared a bill at London's Hippodrome with W ...
as Runt
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Billy Bletcher
William Bletcher (September 24, 1894 – January 5, 1979) was an American actor. He was known for voice roles for various classic animated characters, most notably Pete in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse short films and the Big Bad Wolf in Disney' ...
as Unhappy Boarder
* Joe Cohen
* Edna Reynolds as Newlywed
* Madelyn Hardy as Woman on street
See also
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List of American films of 1916
This list of American films of 1916 is a compilation of American films released in the year 1916.
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A–B
C–D
E–F
G–H
I–J
K–L
M–N
O–P
Q–R
S–T
U–V
W–Z
Short films
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Oliver Hardy filmography
References
External links
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Film at the Internet Archive
1916 films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
1916 comedy films
1916 short films
Silent American comedy films
Articles containing video clips
American comedy short films
1910s American films
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