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Wife Wanted

Apr 28, 1915

0h 26m

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Overview

Andy is searching for a woman whose photo he found in an envelope with the challenge "Find me." Meanwhile, J.D.P. Moore and his daughter, Ruth, are also at Miramar Beach. Ruth is looking for a heroic husband, and her father tries to make the Count Raphio seem heroic by staging an attack on her that the Count is supposed to stop. However, the Count's plan fails, and Andy ends up rescuing Ruth from the attack, recognizing her as the woman from the photo.

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Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

American Film Manufacturing Company

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Cast

Andy Fortune

Edward Coxen

Ruth Moore

Winifred Greenwood

J.D.P. Moore

John Steppling

Count Raphio

George Field

Charlotte Burton

William Bertram

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Slapstick comedy short about a quarreling couple and a nosy mother-in-law.

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One of many Larry Semon directed Vitagraph comic shorts. Like a large portion of them this is lost.

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Two blowhard amateur bowlers boast about their prowess only to be shown up for the Big Bluffs they are.

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A girl's father cannot afford a train ticket, so he ships his daughter by Wells Fargo & Co. Express. He loses his money to a villain and cannot claim his "shipment." The villain attempts to claim her, but the Wells Fargo agent foils the plot and claims her himself.

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Abby Lou is the niece of the crabbed old antique dealer, Richard Cobb. Old Richard Cobb has a son who possesses all the qualities that his father seemingly was born without. This son, Tom Cobb, loves Abby Lou and is working on his great invention, a kettle that will not boil over. Finances are the only drawback to its successful achievement.

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Jan 15, 1917

Pa Glitters and his daughter are beset upon by Slippery Ike who is intent on separating them from their jewels until Bunco Charley comes to their rescue in fine comic fashion.

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Apr 13, 1919

Dalion Pemberton discovers that in order to inherit his grandfather's estate, he must marry Virginia Christy--a complete stranger. Dalion, who doesn't particularly trust or even like women, decides to forgo his grandfather's fortune rather than marry a woman he doesn't know. However, while on a trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina, he spots a beautiful woman and immediately falls for her. When he discovers that she is sailing to New York City, he stows away on the ship so he can follow her. Things don't turn out quite the way he planned.

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A woman "rents" a husband for the purpose of divorcing him so she can win another man, who prefers widows.

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