29 September 1909 Drama, Comedy 9 mins
A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns to his bachelor lifestyle but realizes he can't get his wife's face out of his thoughts.
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Arthur V. Johnson as The Major
Clara T. Bracy as The Widow
Mary Pickford as The Widow's Daughter
Anthony O'Sullivan as The Lawyer
Kate Bruce as A Nun
Owen Moore as The Major's Friend
George Nichols as A Priest
Mack Sennett as The Butler
United States 29 September 1909
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08 December 1909
Documentary about making cheese in the Netherlands.
10 August 1909
A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box.
21 September 1909
On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set foot on the North Pole.
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A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
29 November 1909
A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.
28 June 1909
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and encircling a scene showing school children of 1830 receiving their marks of diligence at a distribution of rewards: then the wreath of bay tendered by the Human Senators to Caesar on the culmination of his career; now a beggar receives a loaf called a "crown" from a charitable passerby: Christ is shown crowned with thorns by the rabble; following the divine drama we see the old comedian's wreath presented him at a performance.
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Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.
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John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman.
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Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her.
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"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical Tragedy".
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