A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
Watch the official The Dream 1911 trailer in HD below.
Mary Pickford as Nell Herbert
Owen Moore as Will Herbert
Charles Arling as The Dream Man (uncredited)
William Robert Daly as Secondary Role (uncredited)
J. Farrell MacDonald as Secondary Role (uncredited)
Lottie Pickford as Bess - the Typewriter (uncredited)
Thomas H. Ince Director
Carl Laemmle Producer
Ernesto Nazareth Original Music Composer
Herbert Brenon Scenario Writer
United States 23 January 1911
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1911:
22 September 1911
A celebrated man who was married five times said on one occasion, "The most trying thing about getting married is the fool tricks one's fool friends play.
13 July 1911
A lost film. Dan Nolan is on strike and in the depths of despair. He resolves to steal to help his plight.
21 December 1911
Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham.
09 February 1911
Mr. and Mrs. Parker leave their apartment to the care of their servants, Riley and his wife, while Mrs.
11 April 1911
In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.
20 February 1911
Americans arrive at their hotel in Cuba in a car, to make a movie. Romantic complications ensue while the cast and crew attempt to finish the movie.
18 February 1911
A capable but homely new hire becomes ill and recommends her beautiful cousin during leave. The bosses and clerk get a surprise at the end.
13 August 1911
A cabin-boy gets to take center stage during a riotous adventure story involving mutineers and pirates and buried treasure.
25 December 1911
She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.
16 November 1911
The ballet pupil Camilla Favier makes for a quick success and falls for the author Jean Mayol. She discovers a love letter to him from a rich married woman and is devastated.
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