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Father’s Choice

1913•5m
Comedy

Father wants Mabel to marry a little, wealthy shrimp. She is in love with Charlie, a big, strapping fellow. Mabel is locked up in the house, but her lover sets the house on fire, and In the confusion runs to the minister's house with her. Father and his choice pursue, but Mabel and her lover hide in the chimney. Father sticks around with a big gun, and Mabel and her lover make up as negroes and are married, father being persuaded to act as best man.

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Production

Keystone Film Company

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand

Mabel

Fred Mace

Fred Mace

Mabel's Sweetheart

Ford Sterling

Ford Sterling

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