Won in a Closet (1914)
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
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Mabel Normand as Mabel |
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Charles Avery as Mabel's Sweetheart |
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Hank Mann as A Rival Suitor / Farmhand |
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Charles Inslee as Her Dad / The Constable |
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Alice Davenport as His Mother |
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Rube Miller as A Farmhand |
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Nick Cogley as |
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Al St. John as |
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William Hauber as |
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Frank Cooley as |
| Writing | Mabel Normand | Writer |
| Directing | Mabel Normand | Director |
| Production | Mack Sennett | Producer |