Movies: Sidney Drew

Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian's when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations wi...

Ira and his son-in-law Harry pretend to enlist in the 13th regiment where they have "drills" every Friday night. When the 13th is called to the front, the two take a fishing trip, only to learn that "their" regiment has been wiped out....

Ferdie's wife is fox-trot crazy, wanting to go dancing all the time. To get out of it, Ferdie fakes an ankle injury. When his wife spies him walking without his crutch, she writes a letter to her stern mother, inviting her to stay with them while Fer...

A husband scolds his wife for not being able to manage her finances better. Unbeknown to her, he's getting rich from a crooked stock scam he's started, and is making so much money that he brings it home by the basketful. Unbeknown to him, his wife, d...

The Craigs and Smiths, next-door neighbors, are the best of friends until Smith builds a chicken house. Their two gardens are connected and their children fraternize as if all belonged to one large family. Sidney Craig manages to set loose Smith's ch...

Using hypnosis and two agents, Jerry manages to get rid of his mother in law....

A man with a baby gets a scarce seat on the streetcar, leaving Mr. Boobley standing. Boobley gets the bright idea to carry a doll with him to be sure of getting a seat....

A young painter becomes the apprentice of an old master who is working on his final great work. Meanwhile, the young painter falls in love with his master’s niece....

Mrs. John Smithers believes her newlywed husband to be a paragon of virtue. Reality sets in as he spends a night out drinking with friends, and a series of lies ends up as comedic fodder....

By Might of His Right premiered in December 1915. The comedy shows what happens when a boorish houseguest overstays his welcome. Henry’s brother-in-law takes to stealing his chair and cigarettes but the last straw comes when, in a display of boxing p...

Sidney Edwards finds a horseshoe, but his bad luck starts immediately. After several incidents, his son quietly borrows the horseshoe, perhaps to turn their family's luck around....

A rich Auntie sends an ugly portrait of herself to Mr. and Mrs. Honeypet. They hide it in the attic, thinking she won't visit for a long time, but soon Auntie arrives unannounced....

A collection of old-time silent movies, re-scored and narrated, featuring the most popular silent film stars. Includes: 1. Pathé 1900 Bathing Beauties fron Venice, California 2. Goodness Gracious with Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew 3. A Drun...

The Drews are considering new scripts when they decide to produce Pay-Day, the melodramatic story of the wealthy and sinister Kirke Brentwood and his lower-class wife, Doris Fenton....

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew starred in a series of polite situational comedies, first for Vitagraph and then for their own company, releasing through Metro. Mr. Drew -- uncle of John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore -- died after his son was killed in the ...

Henry and Anne are newlyweds. In a letter to his dear aunt Becky, he complains about Anne not being as gifted to take care of him as the aunt was. So Aunt Becky and Anne decide to teach Henry a lesson....

A young husband is pleased to discover that his new wife is totally devoted to him. However, things begin to get sticky when he realizes that not only is she devoted to him, but she speaks only in baby talk and won't leave him alone for a second....

A short comedy in which the husband concocts a jealousy story to make an impression on his wife....

Clara Kimball Young, batting her eyelashes even faster than Bernadette Peters, plays Gwendoline, an innocent(?) heroine who seeks a livelihood in the big city. She's briefly employed in a 'bucket shop' (a crooked brokerage house) and arouses the atte...

Mr. and Mrs. Pantomus finally get lucky with a good cook, Tillie. When Tillie wants to go to the city, Mr. Pantomus takes her out, but confusion ensues....