Sweeney's Dream

Jul 16, 1913

0h 16m

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Another riproaring comedy of the Sweeney series, in which the hod carrier dreams he is elected president. A good long laugh and then a roar.

Overview

While many men think they can manage a hotel, a theater, or a newspaper, they are in the minority compared with those low-browed addle-pates who believe they could run the government.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Selig Polyscope Company

Sweeney's Dream Trailers

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Cast

Mrs. Sweeney

Lillian Leighton

The Secretary of War

Joseph Hazelton

The Mayor

Lafe McKee

Member of the Cabinet

William Stowell

Member of the Cabinet

Edwin Wallock

Patrick Sweeney

John Lancaster

Ward Boomer

Palmer Bowman

Member of the Cabinet

Thomas Flynn

Member of the Cabinet

Maxwell Sargent

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How Betty Won the School

Aug 22, 1911

Betty Carlton, a pretty girl, is sent to a girls' seminary. She is welcomed by all, and everything goes along merrily until one day, when they try to initiate Betty into one of their societies by blindfolding her and dropping cold, wet macaroni through her fingers. It feels so much like snakes that she dashes from the room. From now on she is ostracized. She decides to leave. While packing her trunk. She discovers a burglar climbing into a room where the other girls are having a "feed," to which she has not been invited. All the girls scream and run away. Betty, trusting to her lariat, enters the room, captures the burglar, and is thereby made a friend of all.

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The Strategy of Ann

Jul 29, 1911

A Short comedy starring Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.

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Set Free

Dec 9, 1918

Roma Wycliffe, a high-spirited girl bored with the lavender-and-old-lace atmosphere of her Aunt Henrietta's estate, discovers that her grandmother was a gypsy and decides to become one herself.

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Danger, Go Slow

Dec 16, 1918

Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "the Eel," the leader of the gang of crooks with whom she works, is arrested. In the village of Cottonville, Muggsy befriends Aunt Sarah, whom she later discovers is Jimmy's mother. When Muggsy learns that the greedy Judge Cotton, who holds the mortgage on Aunt Sarah's property, is planning to foreclose, she threatens to blackmail him, and he relents.

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A Family Mixup

Dec 9, 1912

Brown and Smith are friends, but their wives have never met. Brown flirts with Mrs. Smith, and in revenge, Mrs. Brown flirts with Mr. Smith. Many amusing scenes are shown, coming to a climax when both couples go to a summer garden. The two men meet and tell each other what fine girls each are out with. Finally the four are brought together and the wives soothe the angry husbands and convince them that it does not pay to flirt.

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A Midnight Elopement

Dec 9, 1912

Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other, but her father vehemently shows his disapproval of Jim. An elopement is planned, and at midnight Jim has the country magistrate waiting for him at the cross roads. He goes to tap on Sallie's window, but makes a mistake and awakens old man Rice, who, clad in his pajamas, pursues him with a shot-gun, and as Jim joins the magistrate, takes a pot shot at them, which finds lodgement in the judge's back. When Rice finds out what he has done, he is in fear of the law, but Jim pays the judge to settle the matter on condition that Rice gives his consent to his daughter's marriage.

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Baby Day

Aug 25, 1913

A short silent comedy starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.

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The Game's Up

Jan 20, 1919

Struggling young painter Ruth Elliott has written her Eastern friend Mildred Colburn that she has gained fame in the West as an artist. When Mildred stops to visit on her way to Honolulu, Ruth hires Peter Neyland to pose as her chauffeur for five hours. Peter is actually a wealthy young man who accepts the offer as a lark.

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The Scarlet Shadow

Mar 10, 1919

Elena Evans is raised by her puritanical Aunt Elvira, who believes that because of Elena's mother, Elena possesses "the scarlet strain."

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Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie

Oct 13, 1919

Alisa Graeme journeys from Scotland to the U.S. to visit Jeremiah Wishart, an old wealthy friend of her grandfather. The invalid Jeremiah is charmed by Alisa and decides she would make a good wife for his favorite nephew, David. Without meeting Alisa, David refuses the arrangement and runs away. Later, Alisa also runs away rather than wed another of Jeremiah's nephews and meets a young billboard painter in the country.

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Foiling Fickle Father

Mar 13, 1913

A short comedy starring Mabel Normand. It is now considered lost.

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Love and Gasoline

Feb 21, 1914

A short comedy directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett. believed to be a lost film.

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The Battle of Who Run

Feb 6, 1913

A Civil war comedy starring Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.

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The Doctored Affair

Feb 27, 1913

Harry and Tillie are preparing to elope when her dad appears and boots his would-be son-in-law out of the house. Tillie is locked up in her room, and to regain her liberty feigns illness and apparently swoons. Dad is troubled and telephones for a doctor. Harry, who is hovering around the corner, sees the doctor coming and bribes him to help him in a scheme to see Tillie.

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A Double Wedding

Jan 6, 1913

A newly wedded couple get mixed up with a black couple, who are also getting wed, as both parties head for the same train.

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Some Steamer Scooping

Feb 12, 1914

The Baron Lafitte is in love with and proposes to Adelaide Burton, daughter of Andrew Burton, a wealthy manufacturer. Clara Lane, a newspaper reporter, has been assigned to watch the movements of the Baron. She is further instructed to make a scoop of their movements. Tom Drake is in love with Clara, and is her persistent follower throughout.

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Subway Sadie

Sep 12, 1926

A New York fur saleswoman falls for a man she meets on the subway and must decide if she wants to accept a much dreamed for work transfer to Paris, or stay and get married.

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Lady Be Good

May 6, 1928

Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.

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Moonlight Follies

Sep 24, 1921

Vivacious Marie Prevost starred in this pleasant little Universal comedy about a flirt who stages moonlight dances at her father's country estate in order to provoke eligible men to fall in love with her.