Won in a Closet

1914
13m

IMDb RATING

5.1/10

121

YOUR RATING

Comedy Short

Mabel's father is the local "constable", he is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines "her ideal". The couple's romance is disrupted by a misapprehension that a "tramp" is hiding ... Read allMabel's father is the local "constable", he is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines "her ideal". The couple's romance is disrupted by a misapprehension that a "tramp" is hiding in a closet at the mother's home.Mabel's father is the local "constable", he is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines "her ideal". The couple's romance is disrupted by a misapprehension that a "tramp" is hiding in a closet at the mother's home.

Director
- Mabel Normand
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.1/10

121

YOUR RATING

Director
- Mabel Normand
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win

Trivia
This film, previously thought to be lost, was recently discovered in New Zealand. This makes the film (as of this writing, 2015) the oldest surviving film directed by and starring Mabel Normand.

Quotes
Title Card: As if by magic...

User reviews7

Review

Featured review

6/10

A Griffith girl in comedy

Similar to many Keystone films, and especially the Bangville Police. Most Sennett comedies were send ups or burlesques of someone or something. Here the cops, country people and even D.W. Griffith are being ridiculed. Mabel is clearly playing a Griffith heroine -- a beautiful girl, very pure, but a little bit silly. How often is Mabel depicted as someone who loves the most ridiculous of men -- she does so here, although it is usually the very odd Mack Sennett who gains her affections. Whether it is Mabel or some other actor that directs, the outcomes are always the same, as Sennett always supervised everything. There were no directors as we know them today.

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