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Shorty Escapes Marriage (1914)
Short | Short, Comedy, Western

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Shorty Escapes Marriage (1914)

Short | Short, Comedy, Western

While Shorty is out looking for cattle thieves his horse stumbles and falls, and Shorty is thrown and injured. He is captured by a bunch of Mexican rebel soldiers and put in jail. He is seen by Anita, a beautiful Spanish girl, whom he ...See moreWhile Shorty is out looking for cattle thieves his horse stumbles and falls, and Shorty is thrown and injured. He is captured by a bunch of Mexican rebel soldiers and put in jail. He is seen by Anita, a beautiful Spanish girl, whom he sends to notify Bud Simms, the ranch owner. Anita has taken a great fancy to Shorty and breaks the rules by taking food to him. In the meantime an important letter has come to the ranch for Shorty. The boys open it and find that Shorty has been left a fortune on condition that he marry a certain woman within two weeks. The boys conceive the plan of marrying Shorty to the lady, who is on her way to the ranch, by proxy. Nell Holden, the lady in question, who is rather a pretty girl, fearing that she may not like the looks of Shorty, disguises herself as an ugly old maid so that Shorty will refuse to marry her. The proxy is Tom Crowne, a very handsome young cowboy, who falls in love with Nell, when he sees her with the disguise removed. Nell plans with the sheriff, who is also the magistrate, to insert Tom Crowne's name in the marriage license instead of Shorty's so that Tom becomes her legal husband instead of only by proxy. Anita notifies Simms of Shorty's whereabouts and the cowboys rescue him. Shorty is very much surprised to find on his return that he has been married by proxy, but is no more surprised than Tom Crowne when he finds that instead of being Nell's husband by proxy, he is really her legal husband. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Tom Chatterton Tom Crowne Tom Crowne See fewer	Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)
Shorty Hamilton Shorty Shorty See fewer	Denny from Ireland (1918)
Fanny Midgley Mrs. Simms (as Miss Midgley) Mrs. Simms (as Miss Midgley) See fewer	Wasted Lives (1923)
Rhea Mitchell Nell Holden Nell Holden See fewer	The Three Musketeers (1916)
Charles Swickard Bud Simms Bud Simms See fewer	An Arabian Knight (1920)