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The Lovely Senorita
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by C. Jay Williams (C.J. Williams)
Cast: William Wadsworth [Wood B. Wedd], Mabel Trunnelle [Señorita Paprika], Herbert Abbe, Harry Gripp, Saul Harrison, Carlton S. King, Anne Leonard
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Mark Swan. / Released 26 January 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The second film in the Wood B. Wedd series.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? When Mr. Wood B. Wedd fell into a comfortable legacy, he decided to leave the home of his ancestors behind him and to go to the romantic land of South America in his quest of a wife. The day after he arrived in the little republic of Santa Marina, Wood walking along the street, encountered the dusky Senorita Paprika and was swept off his feet. He knelt down in the middle of the street and besought her to be his wife. The Senorita Paprika giggled faintly. She thought Wood B. Wedd was very funny to look at and told him that she could not possibly consider his suit unless she saw him clad in the customary costume of Santa Marina. Wedd went to a store and purchased a beautiful set of clothes of the most approved South American cut. When he put them on he looked like a vaquero or a toreador or whatever the proper word is. Then he went to see Paprika. Paprika was charmed with Wood B.’s appearance. But after she had left him. Wood was confronted by two ferocious gentlemen, the Senores Tobasco and Tomale, both suitors of the lovely Paprika. Wood fled, but was pursued and caught. To escape instant death from a long ferocious knife, Wood crossed the palms of the honorable Senores with gold. Meeting the lovely Paprika, Wood expatriated at some length on the fierce combat he had undertaken for her sake. His story won the fair Paprika. Like Desdemona, she loved him for the dangers he had passed. After a short and unexpectedly terminated serenade beneath her window, Paprika and Wood eloped. On their way to the coast, they stopped at an inn, where Wood was initiated in the spicy mysteries of the hot Tomale. Later they ran into a revolution. Wood was captured by the federals and condemned to death as a spy. After an altercation with the commander of the firing squad as to the exact portion of his anatomy he wished the bullets to penetrate, Wood resigned himself to death. Just before the fatal volley, however, he was rescued by an insurrecto attack brought on by the gallant Paprika. Wood’s conduct in the ensuing battle was so novel, however, that Paprika deserted him and Wood B. found his marital hopes blasted again.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 25 June 2020.
References: Website-IMDb.
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