Mrs. Highstrung's maid leaves her at a very inopportune time, as she has just received a telegram from some friends that they will arrive in the city in time for luncheon. Jim, the hired man, tells her of a good Swedish cook and Mrs. Highstrung sends him post haste after her.
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Wallace Beery as Sweedie (a Swedish maid)
Eddie Redway as Jim, the hired man
Agnes Gilmore as Mrs. Highstrung
Ruth Hennessy as Her Daughter
United States 13 July 1914
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09 November 1914
Sweedie has two admirers, and is undecided as to which one she prefers to marry. Her parents are in favor of Fritz, a little fat German.
23 November 1914
Sweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets to pay for it.
23 June 1949
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family.
25 October 1995
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27 June 1984
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig.
04 January 1915
Sweedie while reading a book in the kitchen, falls asleep. She dreams that Kao Yama, Sultan of Puff Puff, has sent her a present in the form of a servant.
20 May 1915
Sweedie gets a job as mop artist in a hotel. She starts out from home encumbered with baggage and a pet dog of uncertain ancestry.
18 January 1915
Mr. Dingy engages Sweedie as their cook. She insists upon bringing her dog "Skinny" and her parrot along.
16 November 1914
Countess Von Swatt goes on a slumming party and loses one of her calling cards in the "hash house" where Sweedie works.
02 February 1971
A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they're not allowed out on an excursion.
11 January 1915
Sweedie decides to commit suicide when she is jilted by her sweetheart, the captain of the police department.
05 October 1914
Henry Bigger, a short fat fellow, and Danny Slimson, short but slim, are rivals for the hand of Sweedie.
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24 January 1914
To err is human, but in the end, goodness of heart will prevail and the one who has committed an offense against man-made laws may come out of the mire and develop into a law abiding and god-fearing citizen.
24 August 1914
Sweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three feet shorter than herself.
24 October 1914
A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.
05 June 1914
In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and straight from Sweden.
27 June 1914
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two.
22 January 1914
A knight of the grip has many inconveniences to contend with, and not only that, but often his very life is in danger.
30 May 1914
Mary Jones, slavey, lonely and unloved, advertises in a matrimonial paper for a good man to marry her.
02 August 1914
Molly Boone's father has been sent to prison for twenty years for alleged complicity in the killing of a revenue officer, Uriah Hudson, whom she secretly suspects of having a hand in sending her father to prison, is her persistent suitor.
15 November 1914
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho.
25 July 1914
John Stafford is unjustly arrested on the eve of his marriage for the murder of an old gentleman whose body was found in his guardian's library.
21 November 1914
In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs up between two men who are seeking Helen's favor, but to whom she has remained impartial.
01 October 1914
Accompanied by his dog Skookum, artist Richard Alden goes to work painting the beauty of Laguna Beach.
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