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Won in a Closet(1914)
Status: Released
Date: 1914-01-21
44%
5 Votes
Time: 0h 14m
Overview:
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Languages: English, No Language.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Keystone Film Company
Mutual Film Corporation
Movie: Won in a Closet
Top 10 Billed Cast
Mabel Normand
Mabel
Charles Avery
Mabel's Sweetheart
Hank Mann
A Rival Suitor / Farmhand
Charles Inslee
Her Dad / The Constable
Alice Davenport
His Mother
Rube Miller
A Farmhand
Nick Cogley
Al St. John
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Overview
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Release Date
1914-01-21
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4.4
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