The Maniac Cook

The Maniac Cook (1909)

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A household cook named Margie has a sudden mental breakdown and attacks her employers, the Holland family. After being briefly restrained, she escapes the house and later sneaks back in. Driven by a "fiendish idea," she takes the Holland's infant baby from its crib and hides the child in the kitchen oven before starting a fire beneath it. The parents unknowingly begin to use the oven, but the baby is rescued just in time when the parents discover the plot during a struggle with the cook, who is then arrested by police.

Director: D.W. Griffith

Casts

	Anita Hendrie as Margie, the Cook
	Marion Leonard as Mrs. Holland
	Harry Solter as Mr. Holland
	Clara T. Bracy as
	George Gebhardt as Policeman #1
	David Miles as
	Mack Sennett as Policeman #2

Crew