Alice Lake
Lake was an American film actress. She began her career during the silent film era and often appeared in comedy shorts opposite Roscoe Arbuckle. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lake began her career as a dancer. She made her screen debut in 1912, and she appeared in a number of comedy shorts by Mack Sennett. Lake was often the leading lady of Roscoe Arbuckle in comedies like Oh Doctor! (1917) and The Cook (1918). Arbuckle directed both films and was joined by Buster Keaton who had a leading role in Oh Doctor.
Lake also played dramatic roles with Bert Lytell in Blackie's Redemption and The Lion's Den, both from 1919. During the 1920s she appeared in a number of Metro silent film features as the lead actress. At the height of her career she earned $1,200 per week as a motion picture actress.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Alice Lake has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1620 Vine Street.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.644 |
| Birthday | 1895-09-11 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
1918
The Bell Boy
6.558/43
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a re...
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The Bell Boy
1918
Good Night, Nurse!
5.537/41
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the sur...
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Good Night, Nurse!
1918
Out West
6.043/47
The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a train and chased by Indians. He teams up with gambler...
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Out West
1917
The Rough House
5.582/61
Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets the nuptial bedroom on fire, as the residence's coo...
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The Rough House
1917
The Butcher Boy
6.081/62
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's...
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The Butcher Boy
1917
Oh, Doctor!
5.7/45
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
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Oh, Doctor!
1918
Moonshine
5.5/30
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arri...
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Moonshine
1918
The Cook
6.211/71
In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications...
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The Cook
1917
A Country Hero
5/1
Fatty plays a village blacksmith in “Jazzville,” an imaginary rural village. There is a rivalry between Fatty and Cy Klone, the garage owner, over the...
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A Country Hero
1927
The Angel of Broadway
0/0
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army gi...
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The Angel of Broadway
1933
Skyway
5.2/4
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
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Skyway
1919
Rip & Stitch: Tailors
0/0
Comedy Short
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Rip & Stitch: Tailors
1917
A Reckless Romeo
5.4/9
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.
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A Reckless Romeo
1923
Souls for Sale
6.2/20
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Souls for Sale
1917
Coney Island
5.867/60
Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girl...
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Coney Island
1916
The Waiters' Ball
6.1/6
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but A...
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The Waiters' Ball
1923
Broken Hearts of Broadway
5.3/3
The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
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Broken Hearts of Broadway
1934
Glamour
3.5/2
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Glamour
1933
Stage Mother
5/2
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even bla...
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Stage Mother
1912
The Picture Idol
5/3
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her pa...
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The Picture Idol
1919
The Lion's Den
0/0
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy grocer in the process.
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The Lion's Den
1934
Babes in Toyland
6.38/129
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little...
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Babes in Toyland
1934
The Girl from Missouri
6.9/11
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire...
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The Girl from Missouri
1919
Should a Woman Tell?
5.5/2
A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns to her home feeling sullied and ashamed. A young m...
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Should a Woman Tell?
1934
Death on the Diamond
7/4
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the v...
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Death on the Diamond
1924
The Virgin
0/0
The Virgin (1924)
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The Virgin
1926
The Hurricane
0/0
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The Hurricane
1924
The Dancing Cheat
0/0
Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake star in this drama taken from the Saturday Evening Post story by Calvin Johnston.
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The Dancing Cheat
1923
The Marriage Market
0/0
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a...
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The Marriage Market
1925
The Overland Limited
0/0
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful Olive Borden.
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The Overland Limited
1917
Come Through
0/0
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentlem...
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Come Through
1931
Wicked
0/0
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
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Wicked
1919
Camping Out
5/1
Camping Out is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Fatty is the suffering spouse who comes home every night to...
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Camping Out
1919
A Desert Hero
0/0
A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
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A Desert Hero
1930
Young Desire
0/0
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
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Young Desire
1917
His Wedding Night
5.491/53
Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice and begins modeling it, he is mistaken...
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His Wedding Night
1929
Circumstantial Evidence
0/0
Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so tha...
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Circumstantial Evidence
1922
I Am the Law
0/0
Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love with schoolteacher Joan Cameron when he saves her...
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I Am the Law
1921
Uncharted Seas
6/1
After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse and turns to Arctic explorer Frank, who has long...
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Uncharted Seas
1919
Lombardi, Ltd.
0/0
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm,...
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Lombardi, Ltd.
1921
The Hole in the Wall
0/0
When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, t...
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The Hole in the Wall
1935
Frisco Kid
6.8/8
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of t...
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Frisco Kid
1928
Obey Your Husband
0/0
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
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Obey Your Husband
1962
Crazy Days
5/1
Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keyst...
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Crazy Days
1916
A Creampuff Romance
0/0
A Creampuff Romance is a 1916 Comedy short.
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A Creampuff Romance
1917
The Grab Bag Bride
6/1
A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lovers. Lake is a pretty good stand-in for Mabel, but...
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The Grab Bag Bride
1923
The Unknown Purple
0/0
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cro...
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The Unknown Purple
1919
Full of Pep
0/0
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company, notices a pretty girl smiling at him in the stati...
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Full of Pep
1930
Dining Out
0/0
Comedy about a man who, reluctantly, spends an evening with his wife at home rather then going out drinking with his friend. When that friend later mi...
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Dining Out
1922
The Golden Gift
0/0
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The Golden Gift
1923
Red Lights
0/0
A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
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Red Lights
1929
Twin Beds
0/0
A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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