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In Search of a Wife (1915)
Short | Drama, Romance, Short

In Search of a Wife (1915)

Short | Drama, Romance, Short

John Randall lives with his father and mother and has not yet engaged in any business for himself. Mary Trevor, Randall's ward, is staying at the Randall home. She is very plain and rather unattractive to John, who longs for girls with ...See moreJohn Randall lives with his father and mother and has not yet engaged in any business for himself. Mary Trevor, Randall's ward, is staying at the Randall home. She is very plain and rather unattractive to John, who longs for girls with more class and style. Mary is secretly in love with John, but keeps in the background. It is John's birthday. He goes to the office and his father offers him an interest in the firm, but John is not ready to settle down as his father's partner in the insurance business and tells Randall, Sr., that he intends to go to the city and look around. The father says nothing to discourage him and when he gets ready to leave, gives John plenty of money so he will want for nothing. When John is ready to depart, his father shows him a list of kinds of girls to avoid: the silly girl, the extravagant girl, the jealous girl, the slovenly girl, the fat girl, the lean girl, the vain girl and the hypochondriac girl. Arrived in the city, John meets Velda Clay, a flirt, and begins paying attention to her. Velda has a very jealous admirer, Earl Boyd, but she throws him over for the time being for John. For some time John spends his money on her, taking her to various places. At last Boyd interrupts them as they are in Velda's apartments and a fight takes place between John and him, in which John is victorious. This, however, gains Velda's sympathy for her defeated suitor and she dismisses John for good. He goes back to his apartments to find a letter from home, asking him to come back to Thanksgiving dinner. A vision of Mary appears to him and John resolves to go back and see her. He hurriedly packs and starts home. It is Thanksgiving. At home no word has come from John and the father and mother are about to give him up, just as John arrives. All are glad to see him and preparations are made for the big dinner, Mary and Mrs. Randall being busy at work in the kitchen. John, left alone before the fire in the living room, remembers the note given him by his father before he left, concerning the various kinds of girls. As he holds the note in his hand, he falls asleep and he dreams that he meets each one of them. He is awakened by Mary, who has come to tell him that dinner is ready. After a merry meal, John, alone with his father, tells him that he was right about the girls. Mary comes in and his father leaves them alone. After a love scene, John proposes and is accepted. Then he goes to his father and tells him that after all he has decided to accept the position in the office, for Mary has promised to marry him. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Herbert Rawlinson John Randall John Randall See fewer	The Flame Fighter (1925)
Agnes Vernon Mary Trevor Mary Trevor See fewer	Queen of the Turf (1921)
Helen Wright Mrs. Randall - John's Mother Mrs. Randall - John's Mother See fewer	A Stranger from Somewhere (1916)
T.D. Crittenden Mr. Randall - John's Father Mr. Randall - John's Father See fewer	The Old Nest (1921)
Barney Furey Earl Boyd Earl Boyd See fewer	The Big Diamond Robbery (1929)
Marjorie Beardsley Velda Clay Velda Clay See fewer	The Mystery of the Tapestry Room (1915)