Carter DeHaven

The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

The Wrong Door

Carter DeHaven

Carter DeHaven, Flora Parker DeHaven

Young industrial tycoon Philip Borden is smitten by musical-comedy star Miss Frou Frou, who in daily life is Fern Hardy, the foster daughter of a repentant thief who is pressured into robbing Borden's company. When Hardy, Fern's father, tries to make Bates, the leader of his criminal gang, return the stolen money, Bates beats and incarcerates Hardy.

The Girl in the Taxi

Lloyd Ingraham

Flora Parker DeHaven, Carter DeHaven

The Girl in the Taxi (1921)

Character Studies

Carter DeHaven, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Carter DeHaven, Buster Keaton

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 putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.

A Waggin' Tale

Carter DeHaven, Flora Parker DeHaven

Two married couples, where one of the two couples more happily married than the other, each get a dog that looks suspiciously similar.

A Youth of Fortune

Otis Turner

Carter DeHaven, Flora Parker DeHaven

At the urging of his wealthy grandfather, Willie O'Donovan is sent to boarding school by his preoccupied parents, neither of whom shows much interest in the lad. At school, where he falls in love with Mary, a country girl, Willie hears that his grandfather has died and left him $50,000,000 to be managed by whomever Willie is living with on his eighteenth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. O'Donovan, who are in the midst of divorce, both hire private detectives to bring Willie back to them, but after a series of close calls, Willie manages to avoid the detectives and take refuge at the home of Mary's mother.

From Broadway to a Throne

Otis Turner, William Bowman

Carter DeHaven, Walter Belasco

Just before a big bout, Jimmie, a New York prize fighter, gets a lucky medal from his friend Billy. Herman Marlex, a chronic teller of tall tales informs Jimmie that the medal is really a royal one, worn by the infant Prince of Magonia when he was kidnapped years before. Then, on fight night, Jimmie is knocked senseless. On his way home, Magonian emissaries see him wearing the medal, and so haul him back to the "homeland." Despite his insisting that he is merely a boxer, Jimmie is hailed as the returning prince.

She Who Gets Slapped

Carter DeHaven

Tom Dugan, William Irving

A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.

The College Orphan

William C. Dowlan

Carter DeHaven, Flora Parker DeHaven

Angered by his son Jack's wild behavior, Mr. Bennett sends him to college on a limited allowance. Jack is engaged to Irma Brentwood, the daughter of his father's partner, however, Irma prefers upper classman Bruce Howard. At Jack's boardinghouse, Jack is kind to orphan Daisy Woods, the much-abused maid, who falls in love with him. After a football victory, Jack's fraternity goes to a burlesque theater, but finds that Howard's fraternity is already there. Following a rough house, Jack's fraternity kidnaps the showgirls for a party.