For Better — But Worse

Last year, I became taken with the 60s parody folk rock duo Allen & Grier, and in doing so felt compelled to pick apart their song "Celebrities Cake Walk," which namedrops a ton of famous people who are now either dead or considerably less famous. I blogged about it, and in the process of trying to identify each of the once-famous people, I came to Mae Busch's IMDb filmography — a list of films and roles that should rightly make you laugh and then feel bad.


Though the below list appeared in the initial blog entry on "Celebrities Cake Walk," I stumbled across it recently and thought I should re-post it on its own.

• Mable and Fatty's Married Life
• Ambrose's Sour Grapes (as "second twin")
• Beating Hearts and Carpets
• A Human Hound's Triumph
• For Better — But Worse
• Fatty and the Broadway Star (as "actress")
• Wife and Auto Trouble (as "a speedy stenographer")
• A Bathhouse Blunder (as "swimming instructor")
• The Folly of Fanchette (as "Mrs. Rayburg")
• The Love Charm (as "Hattie Nast")
• Foolish Wives (as "Princess Vera Petchnikoff")
• Brothers Under the Skin (as "Flo Bulger")
• The Shooting of Dan McGrew (as "Flo Dupont")
• Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model (as "Polly Joy")
• Flaming Love (as "Sal Flood")
• Love 'Em and Weep (as "old flame")
• San Francisco Nights (as "Flo")
• Chickens Come Home (as "Ollie's blackmailer")
• The Man Called Back (as "Rosie")
• Doctor X (as "Cathouse Madam")
• Them Thar Hills (as "Mrs. Hall")
• Tit for Tat (as "grocer's wife")
• The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (as "Mrs. Paul Gironda")
• Prison Farm (as "Trixie")
• Women Without Names (as "Rose")
• The Bride Wore Boots (as "woman")