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  • Arabella's Ankle (1912)
  • Short | 11 min | Short, Comedy
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Arabella's Ankle (1912)
Short | 11 min | Short, Comedy
Anton Dauber is in despair. He has finished his masterpiece, all but the ankle, and alas! the ankle of the fair Dolly, a professional model, is not modeled to suit Dauber. He says so and Dolly, enraged and but half-clad, defends her ankle ...See moreAnton Dauber is in despair. He has finished his masterpiece, all but the ankle, and alas! the ankle of the fair Dolly, a professional model, is not modeled to suit Dauber. He says so and Dolly, enraged and but half-clad, defends her ankle and assails Dauber's ability to paint a barn, much less an ankle. Mrs. Dauber and her two friends, Helen and Margaret, bear the argument and the ladies are shocked at what they see and hear through the door crack. Dauber is discouraged. He goes to the seashore for a rest and to seek inspiration and possibly an ankle. He sees be latter. It belongs to Arabella, who, together with her friends Margaret and Helen, are not aware that a gentleman is sketching behind a boat. Anton sketches furiously, but not quickly enough. Another chance arrives when Arabella reads in unconscious ease on the pier. Anton tries again but a silly idiot knocks the sketch into the water just as it is completed. However, Anton gets acquainted and while getting a photograph of the perfect ankle, is discovered by Helen, Margaret and their two young men. Such proceedings must be reported to Mrs. Dauber over the telephone and the outraged lady takes the first car and meets her friends and sees her erring hubby and Arabella departing from a soda water emporium to the rocks, where Arabella has demurely submitted to have her ankle sketched. All is ready for the sketch when Anton is interrupted, this time by a hat pin and a masculine proportioned lady. Arabella shrieks. The ladies face each other. "Arabella!" "Laura!" The two old school chums fly to each other's arms. Explanations ensue, Margaret and Helen are ashamed of themselves after having been told that they ought to be, and Arabella accepts an invitation to the Dauber's and the perfect ankle is immortalized. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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David Horsley
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Updated Dec 30, 1912
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Dec 30, 1912 (United States)

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