Won in a Closet

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.

Director: Mabel Normand

Cast: Mabel Normand, Charles Avery, Hank Mann, Charles Inslee, Alice Davenport, Rube Miller, Nick Cogley, Al St. John

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.