He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law (1913) User Reviews

The director kept the plot running smoothly

[deickemeyer · 8 November 2017]

That the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is corroborated in this comedy by Page Spencer. The two young things, artists (Tom Morrison and Norma Talmadge), get married. Tom doesn't know how to cook and Norma sticks up her nose at it on account of high art. Mother comes and teaches Norma a lesson in how to keep a man's affection. In the first scenes it seems rather crude and furnishes no comedy, but when Florence Radinoff comes into the picture it rises to comedy and we can't help thinking that she had a good deal to do with this through her acting and the contagion of it, although the script, it so happens, woke up at that point too. Bert Angeles, the director, kept the plot running smoothly and, as far as possible, naturally. The photography is excellent. - The Moving Picture World, September 13, 1913