Won in a Closet (1914)

Won in a Closet

1914

Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Mabel Normand

Cast

Al St. John

Alice Davenport as His Mother

Charles Avery as Mabel's Sweetheart

Charles Inslee as Her Dad / The Constable

Frank Cooley

Hank Mann as A Rival Suitor / Farmhand

Mabel Normand as Mabel

Nick Cogley