Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.
Watch the official Hungry Hearts 1916 trailer in HD below.
Oliver Hardy as Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Billy Ruge as Runt
Ray Godfrey as A Model
Edna Reynolds as A Widow
Bert Tracy as Art Connoisseur
United States 16 June 1916
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CHANGE BEFORE GOING PRODUCTIONS: Long before teaming with Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy starred with Billy Ruge in a series of comedies as "Plump and ...
This short video highlights the collaboration between the Jewish Community Center and The Hartt School in the showing of the silent film Hungry Hearts.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1916:
01 January 1916
A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
02 January 1916
Illustrated travel lecture directed by Robert J. Flaherty, composed of film shot during his time with the Inuit in 1914-1915.
03 May 1916
Mr Vang, a clerk, has just moved into the fourth floor of a block of flats – and he has already gained a reputation as something of a troublemaker.
28 August 1916
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments.
13 February 1916
After the death of her father, a friend hides Dimples' inheritance in a doll, which Dimples carries to her new home at her aunt's boardinghouse.
30 June 1916
Fatima decides she needs to reduce her weight. Inspired by the example of famous actress and beauty icon Lillian Russell, she attempts to "roll it off" through various weight-loss methods.
12 March 1916
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders.
01 April 1916
Jack Marston is the sheriff of a western town and Jennie, his sister, is postmistress and operator at the stage station.
25 September 1916
On New Year's Eve, the convicted murderer, Strong Henry, escapes from prison and collects his son from the orphanage.
08 October 1916
A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested.
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