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Won in a Closet (1914)

Won in a Closet (1914)

Comedy
Release Date: 1914, January 21
Directors: Mabel Normand
Countries: United States of America
Production: Keystone Film Company, Mutual Film Corporation
Cast: Hank Mann, Mabel Normand, Alice Davenport, Charles Avery, Rube Miller, Charles Inslee

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.

Keywords:

woman director silent film one-reeler