Won in a Closet

The story

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.

Cast

M Mabel NormandMabel C Charles AveryMabel's Sweetheart H Hank MannA Rival Suitor / Farmhand C Charles InsleeHer Dad / The Constable A Alice DavenportHis Mother R Rube MillerA Farmhand N Nick Cogley A Al St. John W William Hauber F Frank Cooley