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:
22 May 1916
The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand Duke Karatoff, known to friends and enemies alike as "the butcher.
22 January 1916
The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict.
10 September 1916
Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her.
30 October 1916
A father who despises his daughter, a boyfriend who refuses to marry the girl he knocked up, and a mother caught in the middle.
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.
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.
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.
08 May 1916
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they marry.
01 June 1916
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
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.
02 January 1916
Illustrated travel lecture directed by Robert J. Flaherty, composed of film shot during his time with the Inuit in 1914-1915.
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