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:
23 February 1911
Bob Ford, a young college graduate and a man-about-town, self-willed and wild, who tries his father's patience and generosity by going the limit, is called to a sudden halt by the old gentleman and sent out west with his valet to work on Jones' ranch in Texas and prove to his father that he is not a hopeless renegade.
17 April 1911
A lost film. Jose Almedo is a cattle thief. Marie, his wife, endeavors to assist him. Jose and his band plan to run off some cattle belonging to a rancher.
12 October 1911
Josh doesn't like the way things go at home and decides to quit and get out. Later, his wife gets what purports to be his farewell letter, which is intended to lead her to believe he has committed suicide.
07 March 1911
An electric current accidentally brings a female mummy back to life with decidedly romantic inclinations, much to the surprise of a young Egyptologist and his less than understanding fiancée.
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.
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.
12 July 1911
Two caravans meet on the desert, one headed by Howell and Clancy, two New York men, who are gathering animals for circus purposes, the other is led by an old animal tamer named Desmond and his beautiful daughter, whom the natives have nicknamed Capt.
11 December 1911
A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.
04 September 1911
A white woodsman rescues Little Dove from danger on two occasions and she crushes out on him... but wiser heads prevail.
19 January 1911
The cook has been the bane of many a family, but when it comes to stirring up a western ranch and getting the goats of the cowpunchers there is going to be something doing, and the doing of the something is full of interest, to wit: The cook is not satisfactory and the boys strike for a new "chef.
13 March 1911
Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.
18 May 1911
A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.
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