Movies: Chrissie White

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen....

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as t...

A poet struggles to get her work accepted....

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs....

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur....

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent....

Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With ...

Chrissie White, one of Hepworth Studios' biggest stars, heads up this feisty battle-of-the-sexes comedy about an independent young lady who, for the sake of a rich husband, poses as the epitome of Victorian femininity - weak, docile and submissive. B...

A ten-part series of comedies in which a man repeatedly gets into trouble with his wife....

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders....

A girl's beau poses as a burglar to fool her boastful father....

A professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake....

Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island....

A woman disapproves of her stepson's love for a girl who goes mad when her drunken father dies in a landslide....

A poor author has an engaged girl pose as his wife to please his dying father....

A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months....

A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father....

Covert operations on the home front find solutions to shortages just next door....

A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly....