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Just for Her (1911)
Short | Short, Drama
Gerald Tompkins and Wilbur Jackson have been friends from youth. They graduate from the same college and are given employment in the same bank. By a strange coincidence, they both love Grace Baldwin and become good-natured rivals. Jackson ...See moreGerald Tompkins and Wilbur Jackson have been friends from youth. They graduate from the same college and are given employment in the same bank. By a strange coincidence, they both love Grace Baldwin and become good-natured rivals. Jackson is the favored one and Tompkins is surprised one day when Jackson announces his engagement to Grace in her presence. Gerald pulls himself together and congratulates them, saddened by the blow. Time elapses and Gerald accompanies Wilbur home and the happy husband shows him his baby. Gerald takes the child and congratulates the pair. Jackson lives a fast life, quite beyond his means, and embezzles money from the bank, juggling the figures so as to keep his peculations a secret for a time. At last the officials of the bank become suspicious and meet to examine the books. In the adjoining room Gerald and Wilbur are working. Wilbur is unduly excited and paces the floor. Finally he confesses to his old friend that he has been robbing the bank in a systematic manner for some time and is in despair, saying the exposure will kill his wife. Gerald sympathized with him and they are both called in to face the bank officials. They are confronted with the charge of stealing money and making false entries in the books. Gerald takes the crime on himself to shield the husband of the woman he has always loved. He is sentenced to a term in the penitentiary, and goes to his incarceration, satisfied that he has spared Grace humiliation. Wilbur, unable to longer bear the burden, shoots himself and dies, after writing a confession, which finds its way to his wife. Grace is horrified at the disclosure, but immediately sets about to proclaim the innocence of Gerald by informing his parents of the confession. The aged couple visit the governor, and in turn go to the penitentiary, where their son is restored to them, the stigma removed and he accompanies them home, where he is reinstated in his old position in the bank, where he is welcomed with open arms. Subsequently, Grace visits the bank and is seen by Gerald, through the cage. He puts on his hat and follows her and the story closes with Gerald and Grace married, she happy in the knowledge that her husband has made a great sacrifice for her in attempting to shield her worthless husband. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Carl Laemmle
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Updated Jul 20, 1911
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Jul 20, 1911 (United States)

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Gerald Tompkins Gerald Tompkins   See fewer
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Grace Baldwin Grace Baldwin   See fewer
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