In the preparation of this filmography, I have utilized a variety of resources, both contemporary and modern. I have deliberately ignored director and cast credits where there is no evidentiary source for them, despite their inclusion in some modern listings. Husband Dick Smith is sometimes billed as Richard Smith, but in the interest of uniformity, he is always identified here as Dick Smith.
Caught in a Cabaret
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Directors: Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. With Chaplin, Normand, Alice Davenport, and Chester Conklin. As a rough café type. Released April 1914.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
Caught in the Rain
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Charlie Chaplin. With Chaplin, Mack Swain, and Alice Davenport. As “another woman.” Released May 1914.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
The Knockout
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. With Charlie Chaplin, Arbuckle, and Minta Durfee. As a spectator. Released June 1914.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
Mabel’s Busy Day
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Mabel Normand. With Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and Chester Conklin. As a spectator at the racetrack. Appearance unconfirmed. Released June 1914.
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Mack Sennett. With Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Charlie Murray, and Mack Swain. As Swain’s wife. Released June 1914.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
Laughing Gas
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Charlie Chaplin. With Chaplin, Fritz Schade, and Josef Swickard. As dentist Schade’s wife. Released June 1914.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
Fatty’s Finish
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. With Arbuckle, Phyllis Allen, Hank Mann, and Mack Swain. Released July 1914.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
The Great Toe Mystery
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. With Charley Chase. As the wife. Released July 1914.
The Stolen Coat
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Rube Miller. With Rube Miller and Charley Chase. Released August 1914.
[A film titled A Coat’s Tale, with the same players, was released this same month, also with Alice Howell in the cast, and may very well be The Stolen Coat.]
Bombs and Bangs
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. With Arbuckle and Rube Miller. Released September 1914.
Lovers Luck
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. With Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Phyllis Allen, and Frank Hayes. As a neighbor. Released September 1914.
Preserved at the Museum of Modern Art.
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Glen Cavender. With Charlie Murray, Alice Davenport, and Charley Chase. Released September 1914.
Preserved at the Museum of Modern Art.
Stout Hearts But Weak Hand
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. With Charlie Murray, Charley Chase, and Fritz Schade. Released October 1914.
Cursed by His Beauty
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. With Charlie Murray, Alice Davenport, Charley Chase, Fritz Schade, and Slim Summerville. Released October 1914.
Preserved in the Paper Print Collection at the Library of Congress.
Hello Mabel
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Mack Sennett. With Mabel Normand, Alice Davenport, and Mack Swain. Released October 1914.
High Spots on Broadway
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Rube Miller. With Miller, Slim Summerville, and Al St. John. Released October 1914.
Shot in the Excitement
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Rube Miller. With Al St. John, Josef Swickard, and Rube Miller. As Swickard’s daughter. Released October 1914.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
“Shooting, falling and throwing consume the greater part of the picture, and will create all manner of laughter, especially when a ridiculously slow cannon ball is seen pursuing a runaway couple,” commented Motion Picture News (October 31, 1914). “One big comedy hit,” announced Variety (October 31, 1914).
One of the Sennett films acquired in 1920 by Majestic Pictures for states’ rights distribution.
His Musical Career
Keystone/Mutual. 1 reel. Director: Charlie Chaplin. With Chaplin, Mack Swain, Charlie Chase, and Fritz Schade. As Schade’s wife, Mrs. Rich. Released November 1914.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
Keystone/Alco Film Corp. Director: Mack Sennett. With Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, and Mabel Normand. As guest at party. Released November 1914.
Preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
[Alice Howell is sometimes credited as being in Chaplin’s 1914 films, The Property Man and His Prehistoric Past, but this appears to be incorrect.]
Merry Mary’s Marriage
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. Released January 27, 1915.
Father Was a Loafer
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Billie Ritchie, Louise Orth, and Hank Mann. Released February 13, 1915.
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
The Last Haul
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. With Hank Mann and Ed McDonald. Released February 21, 1915.
Also known as Their Last Haul.
Preserved at the National Film Archive of the British Film Institute and partial preservation at the Library of Congress.
Rough But Romantic [Love]
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Hank Mann and Gertrude Selby. As father’s girl friend. Released March 17, 1915.
The Stool Pigeon’s Revenge
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Hank Mann and Peggy Pearce. Released May 12, 1915.
Blue Blood and Yellow Backs
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Reggie Morris, Harry Gribbon, and Gertrude Selby. Appearance unconfirmed. Released June 20, 1915.
The Curse of a Name
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Harry Gribbon, Peggy Pearce, and Dick Smith. As the stenographer. Released July 21, 1915.
“Much better than the average run of L-Kos…. Alice Howell … is an excellent comedienne in this case,” wrote Motion Picture News (July 24, 1915).
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Harry Gribbon, Henry “Pathe” Lehrman, and Billie Ritchie. Released July 28, 1915.
In the Claw of the Land
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Fatty Voss, Peggy Pearce, and Harry Gribbon. Released August 4, 1915.
The Bath House Tragedy
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone.* With Hank Mann and Peggy Pearce. Released October 10, 1915.
Under New Management
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. Director: Henry “Pathe” Lehrman. With Gertrude Selby, Raymond Griffith, and Fatty Voss. Released October 13, 1915.
Preserved at the National Film Archive of the British Film Institute and at the Library of Congress.
Room and Board—$1.50
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. Director: Henry “Pathe” Lehrman. With Billie Ritchie, Louise Orth, and Henry Bergman. As Ritchie’s wife. Released October 20, 1915.
Tears and Sunshine
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Gene Rogers, Raymond Griffith, and Gertrude Selby. As Mrs. Whosis. Released October 27, 1915.
“It has amusing moments,” reported Moving Picture World (October 30, 1915).
Cupid and the Scrub Lady
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Fatty Voss and Billy Bevan. As Gwendolyn. Released November 7, 1915.
Her Ups and Downs
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Fatty Voss. Released November 7, 1915.
L-Ko/Universal. 3 reels. Director: Henry “Pathe” Lehrman. With Billie Ritchie, Louise Orth, and Henry Bergman. Released November 10, 1915.
“What is without a doubt the best comedy of the year,” wrote the Charlotte (NC) Observer (November 14, 1915).
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
Sin on the Sabbath
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Billie Ritchie, Gene Rogers, Reggie Morris, and Louise Orth. Released December 8, 1915.
Preserved at the Museum of Modern Art.
“The situation around which the story is built is familiar to the average small town resident and has a humorous side,” wrote Moving Picture World (December 4, 1915).
Lizzie’s Shattered Dreams
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Fatty Voss and Charles Winninger. Released December 12, 1915.
“comedy of country life … a good one of its kind,” commented Moving Picture World (December 11, 1915).
From Beanery to Billions
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Dick Smith. Released December 22, 1915.
“A laugh provoker, with a giggle, a laugh, a roar,” commented the Santa Ana (CA) Register (March 25, 1916).
Flirting a la Carte
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Fatty Voss, Dick Smith, and Phil Dunham. Released January 16, 1916.
Alternative title: Flirtation a la Carte.
“This knockabout affair is based on an old plot while its situations present nothing original in the way of laughable entertainment,” opined Motion Picture News (January 15, 1916).
Her Naughty Eyes
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Henry/Harry Coleman and Dick Smith. As the victim of a hypnotist. Released February 9, 1916.
“Another version of the familiar plot in which the leading lady has a winking eye,” commented Moving Picture World (February 12, 1916).
Dad’s Dollars and Dirty Doings
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Dick Smith, Fatty Voss, and Phil Dunham. As girl lured from farm to big city. Released February 27, 1916.
“It is unfortunate that the producer chose to picture a death scene. It is totally out of place in a burlesque that is otherwise very good,” commented Motion Picture News (February 26, 1916).
The Double’s Trouble
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Henry/Harry Coleman, Billy Bevan, and Dick Smith. As hotel chambermaid who usurps place of countess. Released April 16, 1916.
“Alice Howell in her usual eccentric role,” commented Motion Picture News (April 15, 1916).
The Bankruptcy of Boggs and Schultze
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Raymond Griffith, Phil Dunham, and Dick Smith. As stenographer. Released May 3, 1916.
The Great Smash
L-Ko/Universal. 3 reels. With Raymond Griffith, Billy Bevan, and Dick Smith. As Romantic Rosie, the lighthouse keeper’s daughter. Released May 10, 1916.
A Busted Honeymoon
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Raymond Griffith, Fatty Voss, and Anne Darling. As the bride. Released May 24, 1916.
How Stars Are Made
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. With Raymond Griffith, Fatty Voss, Gertrude Selby, and Reggie Morris. As a “sweeper” (or slavey) who wants to be an actress. Released June 17, 1916.
Preserved at the National Film Archive of the British Film Institute.
Pirates of the Air
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Fatty Voss, Billy Armstrong, Phil Dunham, and Billy Bevan. As the waitress. Released June 28, 1916.
“Not as strong as some previous ones, but it is better than the average comic in certain respects,” wrote Robert C. McElravy in Moving Picture World (June 10, 1916).
L-Ko/Universal. 3 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. With Fatty Voss, Phil Dunham, and Billy Bevan. As Lizzie, a newly released jailbird. Released July 25, 1916.
The Wilmington Morning Star (August 12, 1916) commented, “Week after week the L-Ko puts out bigger and better comedy productions, but it seems that the climax has been reached in that great three-reeler Lizzie’s Lingering Love, which is today’s great headliner at the Bijou starring inimitable Alice Howell, the funniest girl in America, with a big bunch of the L-Ko nuts as co-stars.”
Where Is My Husband?
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Dan Russell. Released August 2, 1916.
Unhand Me, Villain!
L-Ko/Universal. 3 reels. With Fatty Voss. As “a young lady of the slums, who is overly popular with the police.” Released August 9, 1916.
Working title: The Villain Still Pursued Her.
“The events which take place in this three-reel number make one think of an animated newspaper cartoon series. Certainly Alice Howell, who has already done good work in previous numbers, gets a firm hold on the risibles in this production and maintains it throughout the entire three reels,” wrote Robert C. McElravy in Moving Picture World (July 29, 1916).
His Temper-Mental Mother in Law
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. Released August 16, 1916.
Also known as The Mother-in-Law.
Tillie’s Terrible Tumbles
L-Ko/Universal. 3 reels. With Phil Dunham and Fatty Voss. As a washerwoman accused of murder. Released September 12, 1916.
[On September 30, 1916, L-Ko published an advertisement in the Moving Picture World promoting Alice Howell and Phil Dunham. It lists the following titles from 1916, none of which appear to feature Alice Howell: Cold Hearts and Hot Flames, A Surgeon’s Revenge, Safety First, A Million Dollar Smash, and A Rural Romance (starring Billy Bevan and Dick Smith), as well as one from 1917, Nellie’s Nifty Necklace (starring Billie Ritchie).]
L-Ko/Universal. 3 reels. With Joseph Moore, Fatty Voss, and Phil Dunham. As assistant in tailor’s shop. Released November 11, 1916.
“The action is a little broad in the first reel, but inoffensive and generally acceptable. The last two reels are best and several scenes, particularly those at the [society] reception are extremely funny,” wrote Robert C. McElravy in Moving Picture World (October 28, 1916).
Tattle Tale Alice
L-Ko/Universal. 1 reel. With Louise Orth. Released December 1, 1916.
[On July 17, 1917, the British Hull Daily Mail describes an Alice Howell film titled Cupid in Hospital as “laughable,” but this would appear to be a U.K. release title for another and unidentified film.]
Balloonatics
Century/Longacre. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. Released September 1, 1917.
Working title: The Balloon Bandits.
Automaniacs
Century/Longacre. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. As a cleaner in her stepfather’s garage. Released October 1, 1917.
“Automaniacs is one of those productions containing the conventional slapstick, femininely applied. It dug guffaws out of the audience, however,” wrote Kitty Kelly in Photoplay (January 1918). Motion Picture News (October 13, 1917) opined, “Alice Howell seems to be achieving a reputation as a comedienne of no small promise.”
Neptune’s Naughty Daughter
Century/Longacre. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. As the title character. Released November 1, 1917.
Preserved at the Eye Film Institute (Amsterdam).
“It would hardly have been possible to get more action into a comedy that is contained in the two reels that comprise Neptune’s Naughty Daughter … More things happen during the running of the two reels than usually happen to the heroine of a paper-covered thriller; and if the piece does not make everyone who sees it laugh a few times at least, there is something wrong with that person,” wrote Ben H. Grimm in Moving Picture World (July 21, 1917).
Century/Longacre. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. Released December 1, 1917.
Working titles: Alice of the Sawdust and The Honor of the Sawdust.
The Village Blacksmith
Century/Longacre. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. Released January 1918.
She Did Her Bit
Century/Longacre. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. As the blacksmith’s daughter. Released March 1918.
Also known as Doing Her Bit.
O’ [sic] Baby
Century/Longacre. 2 reels. Director J. G. “Jack” Blystone. Released Spring 1918.
May be a working title for another Century comedy.
School Days
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. Released Spring 1918.
[What’s the Matter with Father, released April 3, 1918, and directed by J. G. “Jack” Blystone, is identified by various U.S. newspapers as starring Alice Howell, but contemporary trade papers do not acknowledge her presence in the film.]
Her Unmarried Life
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. With Hughie Mack. Released May 29, 1918.
In Dutch
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. As a young immigrant. Released June 19, 1918.
Preserved at the Eye Film Institute (Amsterdam) and 35mm nitrate at the Library of Congress.
“The subject is not very strong,” commented Moving Picture World (June 29, 1918).
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. With Hughie Mack, Billy Armstrong, and Neal Burns. As “Babbling Bess.” Released July 17, 1918.
This might possibly have had the working title of Hoot, Toot!, but should not be confused with the later film of that title.
Hey, Doctor!
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: J. G. “Jack” Blystone. With Neal Burns, Eddie Barry, and Billy Armstrong. As receptionist at doctor’s office who drops banana peels on the sidewalk to bring in patients. Released July 31, 1918. [I am reminded of a song from the mid-1920s titled “Elsie Shulkz-en-heim,” written by Cliff Friend and Frank Silver, whose title character is ugly, and to drum up business for the doctor, for whom she works, stands outside his surgery and makes people sick.]
Preserved at the Library of Congress.
Bawled Out
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: James D. Davis. With Hughie Mack, Vin Moore, and Helen Gibson. Released August 14, 1918.
Hoot Toot
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: James D. Davis. Released August 28, 1918.
Cupid vs. Art
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: Vin Moore. With Hughie Mack. Released September 11, 1918.
[Nuts and Noodles, released October 2, 1918, is identified by various U.S. newspapers as starring Alice Howell, but contemporary trade papers do not acknowledge her presence in the film.]
Untamed Ladies
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Released October 9, 1918.
The Cabbage Queen
Century/Universal. 2 reels. With Hughie Mack and Phil Dunham. Released December 18, 1918.
Century/Universal. 2 reels. With Hughie Mack. Released February 10, 1919.
Preserved at the National Film Archive of the British Film Institute.
“This contains a number of laughable knockabout situations,” reported Moving Picture World (March 15, 1919).
A Ragtime Romance
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. With Dick Smith and Bobby Dunn. Released March 5, 1919.
The Santa Cruz Evening News (August 7, 1919) proclaimed the film “a roar of laughter from the open to the final fadeout.” But while it and other newspapers identify the star as Alice Howell, the trade papers make no mention of her.
Society Stuff
Century/Universal. 2 reels. Director: Vin Moore. Released March 12, 1919.
Also known as That Society Stuff.
Beauty and the Boob
L-Ko/Universal. 2 reels. Released August 9, 1919.
[Biggins and Where Are Your Husbands?, both released in August 1920 and produced by George Kleine, are identified by various U.S. newspapers as starring Alice Howell, but contemporary trade papers do not acknowledge her presence in the films.]
Distilled Love
Reelcraft. 2 reels. With Oliver Hardy, Dick Smith and Rae Godfrey. As the milkmaid. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
Preserved at the Library of Congress
Also known as A Mere Man’s Love.
“Alice Howell … holds her end up in reasonably good style,” commented Film Daily (April 11, 1920).
A Wooden Legacy
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
Also known as His Wooden Legacy.
16mm print at the Library of Congress.
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Director: Frederick J. Ireland. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
Her Lucky Day
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
16mm print at the Library of Congress.
Cinderella Cinders
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Director: Frederick J. Ireland. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
Preserved at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and at the Library of Congress.
Squirrel Time
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
16mm print at the Library of Congress.
Lunatics in Politics
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Director: Dick Smith. With Smith and Rose Burkhart. As a candidate for police chief. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920. Under the title of Lunatics and Politics, this is identified by Moving Picture World, June 26, 1920, as the fifth Alice Howell comedy to be produced at the Emerald Studio in Chicago.
Rubes and Romance
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
Good Night Nurse
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Director: Dick Smith. With Phil Dunham and Frank Coleman. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
A Convict’s Happy Bride
Reelcraft. 2 reels. Director: Dick Smith. With Jackie Condon, Phil Dunham, and Frank Coleman. As the title character. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
Preservation at the Library of Congress from 16mm.
Sun-Kist/Celebrated Players. 1 reel. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
Who Chose Your Wife?
Sun-Kist/Celebrated Players. 1 reel. Released on a states’ rights basis in 1920.
[Married to Order, released on a states’ rights basis in 1920, is identified by various U.S. newspapers as starring Alice Howell, but contemporary trade papers do not acknowledge her presence in the film.]
[In early 1921, Celebrated released the following one-reel comedies on a states’ rights basis; there is no indication as to whether Alice Howell was in any of them: Jazz & Jealousy, Mixed Pickles, The Honeyspooners, Out of Luck, A Terrible Time, Love and Law, The Love Doctor, Why Get a Divorce, and Jilted and Jolted.]
Love Is an Awful Thing
Owen Moore Film Corp./Selznick Distributing. 7-reel feature film. Director: Victor Heerman. With Owen Moore, Marjorie Daw, and Kathryn Perry. As wife of the building superintendent, played by Snitz Edwards. Released September 1922.
“The cast is economical and undistinguished,” reported Variety (September 8, 1922).
The Bishop of Hollywood
Selznick Films. 2 reels. Director: Fred Caldwell. With Chester Conklin. Released January 15, 1923. Some sources give a release date of February 1924.
Wandering Daughters
Sam E. York/Associated First National. 6-reel feature film. Director: James Young. With Marguerite De La Motte, William V. Mong, and Marjorie Daw. As servant in boarding house. Released July 1923.
“Alice Howell may get some laughs with her business,” commented Motion Picture News (June 30, 1923).
Educational. 2 reels. Director: Fred Caldwell. With Victor Potel. Released November 15, 1923.
The Sheik of Hollywood
Educational. 2 reels. Director: Fred Caldwell. With Chester Conklin. Appearance unconfirmed. Released December 15, 1923.
[In the early 1920s, Alice Howell appeared in an uncredited role in a feature film with Douglas MacLean; this may be the 1923 feature film, A Man of Action.]
The Cream of Hollywood
Educational. 2 reels. Director: Fred Caldwell. With Chester Conklin. Appearance unconfirmed. Released January 15, 1924.
The Bishop of Hollywood
Educational. 2 reels. Director: Fred Caldwell. With Chester Conklin. Appearance unconfirmed. Released February 15, 1924.
Should Poker Players Marry?
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach and Neely Edward. Released March 8, 1924.
Marry When Young
Universal. 2 reels. Director: William H. Watson. With Neely Edwards and Bert Roach. As Edwards’s new bride. Released April 5, 1924.
The Spring of 1964
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Neely Edwards and Bert Roach. Released April 12, 1924.
One Wet Night
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Neely Edwards and Bert Roach. Released April 26, 1924.
Preserved at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach, Harold Austin, and Neely Edwards. As the wife. Released May 19, 1924.
Rest in Pieces
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach. As Roach’s wife. Released June 2, 1924.
Why Be Jealous?
Universal. 2 reels. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach and Harold Austin. As the wife. Released June 23, 1924.
“Bert Roach and Alice Howell waste a lot of effort on this comedy. It is slapstick of the worst kind,” wrote Exhibitor’s Trade Review (July 3, 1924). “Rather too much footage is devoted to Miss Howell raising a rumpus with her husband” was the opinion of Film Daily (June 22, 1924).
Bluffing Bluffers
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach and Harold Austin. As the wife. Released July 2, 1924.
Patching Things Up
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach and Harold Austin. As the wife. Released July 7, 1924.
Women’s Rights
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach and Harold Austin. As the wife. Released July 23, 1924.
Fair and Windy
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach and Harold Austin. As the wife. Released August 4, 1924.
Way Up North
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach. Released August 18, 1924.
That’s the Spirit
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach and Billy Fletcher. Released September 1, 1924.
Incomplete print preserved at the Library of Congress.
Universal. 1 reel. Director: William H. Watson. With Bert Roach and Neely Edwards. As the wife. Released September 17, 1924.
“The comedy is good for several smiles and a few laughs,” reported Film Daily (September 14, 1924).
Butterfly
Universal. 8-reel feature film. Director: Clarence Brown. With Laura La Plante, Ruth Clifford, and Kenneth Harlan. As uncredited guest at party. Released October 1924.
Preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Mind Your Doctor
Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Bert Roach and Neely Edwards. Appearance unconfirmed.* Released October 13, 1924.
Green Tees
Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Bert Roach and Neely Edwards. As the wife whose husband must go to work if he beats her at golf. Released November 10, 1924.
Under a Spell
Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Neely Edwards and Bert Roach. Released January 6, 1925.
Preserved at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and at the Library of Congress. 16mm print at the Library of Congress.
The Lost Cord
Bull’s Eye/Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Neely Edwards and Bert Roach. Appearance unconfirmed. Released January 21, 1925.
Papa’s Pet
Bull’s Eye/Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Bert Roach and Neely Edwards. Released March 2, 1925.
Bull’s Eye/Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Neely Edwards and Bert Roach. As the wife. Released March 9, 1925.
Alice Howell “contributes importantly to the work as the wife whose savings are turned into stock certificates issued by oil companies which cannot seem to strike oil,” wrote T. C. Kennedy in Motion Picture News (April 18, 1925).
Tenting Out
Bull’s Eye/Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Neely Edwards and Bert Roach. As the wife. Released March 23, 1925.
“An average comedy, but far from a side splitter,” wrote Exhibitor’s Trade Review (April 4, 1925).
Sleeping Sickness
Bull’s Eye/Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Neely Edwards and Bert Roach. As the wife. Released March 30, 1925.
A Nice Pickle
Bull’s Eye/Universal. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Bert Roach and Neely Edwards. Appearance unconfirmed. Released April 6, 1925.
[Locked Out, released April 20, 1925, is identified by various U.S. newspapers as starring Alice Howell, but contemporary trade papers do not acknowledge her presence in the film.]
The Pride of the Force
Rayart Pictures. 5 reels. Director: Duke Worne. With Tom Santschi, Edythe Chapman, and Gladys Hulette. Appearance unconfirmed. Released September 1925.
[The IMDB lists this film as one in which Alice Howell appears, but no contemporary reviews credit her and there does not appear to be an appropriate role that she might have played.]
Shipwrecked
Metropolitan Pictures/Producers Distributing Corp. 6 reels. Director: Joseph Henabery. With Seena Owen, Joseph Schildkraut, and Matthew Betz. As the assistant to the cook. Released May 1926. According to Motion Picture News, April 3, 1926, p. 1500, Alice Howell was to return to the screen in “a character part” in this film. Her name does not appear in the credits.
What Price Pleasure?
Universal Bluebird. 1 reel. Director: Dick Smith. With Neely Edwards. Appearance unconfirmed. Released November 12, 1926.
Madame Dynamite
Fox Imperial Comedies. 2 reels. Directors: Zion Myers and Gene Forde. With Della Peterson and Eddie Clayton. As the title role of the mother-in-law (replacing Blanche Payson). Released November 1926.
Preserved at the Library of Congress and 16mm print at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
A Society Architect
Fox “Van Bibber” series. 2 reels. Director: Robert P. Kerr. With Earle Foxe, Florence Gilbert, Frank Beal, and J. Clifford Rice. Released February 13, 1927.
“It is a generally entertaining, absurd and ridiculous farce-comedy, well done by director, actors and cameraman,” wrote Paul Thompson in Motion Picture News (January 21, 1927).
The Junior Year
Universal. 2 reels. Director: Nat Ross. With George Lewis. Dorothy Gulliver, Eddie Phillips, and Yvonne Howell. Released September 3, 1928.
“Collegians” Second Series, Number Two.
* Blystone probably directed many of the L-Ko and Century comedies, but he is credited here only if his name appears as director in contemporary documentation.
* It seems highly likely that Alice Howell is in all of the Bert Roach/Neely Edwards comedies, but where her name is not mentioned in contemporary commentary, she is listed as appearance unconfirmed.