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  • Dad's Darling Daughters (1916)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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Dad's Darling Daughters (1916)
Short | Comedy, Short
An old man lived in a little house with five daughters. He was a lazy old fellow and worked only when necessary to obtain money to pay his bills. His children were cheerful, energetic girls, who kept the house in "apple-pie" order, and ...See moreAn old man lived in a little house with five daughters. He was a lazy old fellow and worked only when necessary to obtain money to pay his bills. His children were cheerful, energetic girls, who kept the house in "apple-pie" order, and were veritable sunbeams to their father, who took their devotion as a matter of course, never dreaming that the time would come when he would lose them. Suddenly the five girls were married, and they stopped the protests of their father by telling him that he would always be welcomed at their new homes. In this sentiment, however, their husbands did not concur, and father discovered later that while "wifey" generally rules the home that sometimes "hubby" can make it mighty uncomfortable for an intruder. Father first called upon the barber, who had married his eldest daughter. During courtship days the barber had been very courteous to the old man, but the air of proprietorship with which his father-in-law sauntered into his shop irritated him and he roughly told the old man that if he wished to stay there he would have to assist in shaving the customers. Father did his best, but his best was very bad, and after the shop was almost demolished by the angry customer he sadly continues on his way, firmly convinced that his son-in-law, the garage owner, would treat him differently. And the garage owner did. He induced father to creep under an automobile to look at the differential and then started the car, coming very close to running over the old man's neck. Garage life, after this demonstration, held no attractions for father, and he found another son-in-law, the painter, to be equally unfeeling, all because the old man thoughtlessly upset the painter's swing and dropped them both to the ground many feet below. "The young milliner who married my daughter Ruth is very gentle," he said to himself, "He isn't a bit like the others." The old man was right; the milliner was gentle, but one of his lady customers was not, and father angered her so much that she chased him for five blocks and he nearly had heart failure before he finally escaped. The man who married the youngest daughter was a building contractor, who promptly vetoed his father-in-law's suggestion that he become his business associate. The contractor supplied his relative by marriage with a nice hod full of bricks and sent him to an upper floor of a building which he was erecting. Everything would have gone along all right if father hadn't dropped the bricks upon an Italian laborer, who pursued him, knife in hand, until father toppled from the scaffold into a passing ash cart. The ashes were dumped into a vacant lot, and there father was found by a widow who owned a delicatessen store, and who, some time before, had taken advantage of Leap Year to propose to the old man. She renewed her suit. So father married the widow and resolved to forever forget his faithless sons-in-law. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Anders Van Haden (as William A. Howell)
Writer
Lloyd Lonergan (scenario) (as Lloyd F. Lonergan)
Producer
Edwin Thanhouser
Cinematographer
George K. Hollister
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Updated Apr 24, 1916
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Apr 24, 1916 (United States)

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