Surviving Feature Films & Notable Shorts Starring Louise Fazenda

These titles exist today in complete or viewable form in archives, restorations, or commercial availability.

1930s – All Survive

These are her most accessible films.




  • review the below movies later. these are not Louise Fazenda movies, the road back, ready, willing and able, merry go round of 1938, breakdowns of 1938


  • The Road Back (1937)

  • Ready, Willing and Able (1937)

  • Merry Go Round of 1938 (1937)

  • Breakdowns of 1938 (1938, compilation; her footage survives)

Late 1920s – Surviving Titles

  • always check first if Louise Fazenda is actually in these movies


  • Rain or Shine (1930 – early talkie but often grouped with late silents)

  • Noah’s Ark (1928) – survives in restored form

  • Alice in Wonderland (1933 – she appears in the Paramount version; survives)

Mid‑1920s – Surviving Shorts & Features

  • Fatty’s Tintype Tangle (1915) – survives and is widely available

  • A Submarine Pirate (1915) – survives

  • Her Torpedoed Love (1917) – survives

  • Maggie’s First False Step (1917) – survives

  • The Marble Heart (1916) – survives

  • A Hash House Fraud (1915) – survives

  • A Versatile Villain (1915) – survives

  • Ambrose’s Little Hatchet (1915) – survives

  • Ambrose’s Nasty Temper (1915) – survives

  • Willful Ambrose (1915) – survives

  • Mike and Jake as Heroes (1913) – survives

  • Poor Jake’s Demise (1913) – survives

(These early Keystone‑style shorts survive because they were widely distributed and many prints ended up in private collections and archives.)

Important Notes

  • Louise Fazenda appeared in hundreds of short comedies between 1913–1917. Many are lost, but the ones listed above are confirmed survivors.

  • Her sound‑era films (1930s) survive almost completely.

  • Her late‑1920s features survive because they were major studio productions with preserved negatives.

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