Fanny's Conspiracy - Cast

Fanny's Conspiracy (1913)
Short | 11 min | Short, Comedy

Fanny's Conspiracy (1913)

Short | 11 min | Short, Comedy

When Mr. Burney returns home he is entirely too stout to suit Fanny, his pretty young wife. She decides that his excessive corpulence must be removed. Much to Burney's discomfort, he is put on a severe diet. Almost starved, he sneaks into ...See moreWhen Mr. Burney returns home he is entirely too stout to suit Fanny, his pretty young wife. She decides that his excessive corpulence must be removed. Much to Burney's discomfort, he is put on a severe diet. Almost starved, he sneaks into the kitchen and gets the kind-hearted maid to give him some pie, chocolate cake, and doughnuts. Just as he is about to start in eating, in comes Fanny and all the food is taken from him. Fanny sends for cousin Jack Gordon, He brings some dumb bells and Indian clubs. When she is thanking him affectionately for his kindness, the inquisitive maid, peeking through the keyhole, sees her and wonders what it means. Mr. Burney is so fat he cannot stand much exercise. Though Fanny continually measures him with a tape measure and urges him to swing the clubs some more, he soon gives up exhausted.in despair, Fanny tries all sorts of remedies. She makes hubby run through the country on a hot summer's day all dressed up in sweaters and woolens. She installs a gymnasium in the house and makes him take violent exercises. She repeats the diet in a more heroic form, all to no avail. At last, seeing a fat-reducing medicine advertised, she gets a large bottle of it and puts some in his coffee. The conscientious maid sees her doing it and when Mr. Burney starts to drink the coffee she frantically stops him and tells him that it contains poison. She also tells him of Jack Gordon. Going to Gordon's house to demand an explanation. Mr. Burney finds there a torn piece of a letter signed by his wife. The fragment makes Fanny out a criminal; it speaks of a "Bottle, given secretly, unpleasant, James is out of the way!" Burney gets a detective and accuses Fanny of trying to murder him. All ends happily when Gordon comes around with the other part of the letter, and Fanny produces the bottle of fat reducer which the letter speaks of. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Van Dyke Brooke The Husband The Husband See fewer	Betty's Choice (1909)
Norma Talmadge The Wife The Wife See fewer	Camille (I) (1926)
Ethel Lloyd The Maid The Maid See fewer	The Ransom (1916)
Harry Northrup Actor Actor See fewer	The Heart of Maryland (1927)
Leo Delaney Actor Actor See fewer	As You Like It (1912)