The read
It runs a compact 14m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.1/10
5 audience votes
Key crew
- Mabel NormandWriter
- Mabel NormandDirector
Cast
- Mabel NormandMabel
- Charles AveryMabel's Sweetheart
- Hank MannA Rival Suitor / Farmhand
- Charles InsleeHer Dad / The Constable
- Alice DavenportHis Mother
- Rube MillerA Farmhand
- Nick CogleyCast
- Al St. JohnCast
- William HauberCast
- Frank CooleyCast
Stills
Themes
silent filmone-reelerwoman director