01 November 1909 Comedy 10 mins
A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limbs appear misshapen. All but one of the men is driven off, and regret it when she removes the misleading leggings.
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Marion Leonard as Nanette Ranfrea
Mack Sennett as An Admirer
Arthur V. Johnson as An Admirer
James Kirkwood as An Admirer
Billy Quirk as An Admirer
George Nichols as Manager of Beach House
Mary Pickford as Woman on Sidewalk
Kate Bruce as Woman on Sidewalk
Anthony O'Sullivan as Commodore
Frank Evans as Man on Pier
Gertrude Robinson as Woman on Sidewalk
Dorothy West as Maid
United States 01 November 1909
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06 May 1909
First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.
30 August 1909
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.
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Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away.
29 July 1909
A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food.
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Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order to steal a photograph.
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George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink.
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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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