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Never Known to Smile
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 450 feet
Directed by Edward Dillon
Cast: Charles Murray [Mr. O’Brien], Louise Sydmeth [Mrs. O’Brien], Kathleen Butler [a woman at the picnic], Gus Pixley [a man at the picnic]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Frank Howard Clark. / © 7 October 1913 by Biograph Company. Released 9 October 1913; in a split-reel with Scenting a Terrible Crime (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? O’Brien’s wife was a frigid old crab. She had never been known to laugh. He decided to buy the old girl a new hat. Perhaps she might crack a smile. He sent it home by messenger. A street fight took place. For the first time in her life Mrs. O’Brien laughed, but presto, she learned that hat was her own.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 25 October 1913, page ?] O’Brien (William Murray) is being put on his nerves by a wife who never smiles and from this circumstance rise a few comical happenings which are not so funny as the characters who set them forth. The offering seemed to please nearly all and it made some in the audience laugh.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 2 June 2024.
References: Skal-Browning p. 231; Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.
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