Getting Even
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn’t stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When his…
Genre Comedy
Her First Biscuits
A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs…
His Wife’s Mother
Jones’s mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.
A Hustling Advertiser
A Gilbert M. Anderson film directed by , released in 1909.
A Troublesome Satchel
Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can’t get rid of the bag, even when he’s robbed. The thieves assume he’s a colleague and return the bag and tools.
A Wreath in Time
A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own elegiac cinerary floral offerings, and at the time John was…
Ben Gets a Duck and Is Ducked
A film directed by , released in 1909.
The Gibson Goddess
A pack of admirers won’t leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limbs appear misshapen. All…
The Lure of the Gown
“Fine feathers make fine birds”, and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker’s art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom…
The Road to the Heart
Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he reconciles with his daughter so he can get a good meal.
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