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Un mariage à l’américaine
Also known as Miss Moneybags Wishes to Marry in the USA : [Miss Moneybags Wishes to Wed], [An American Marriage]
B&W : Short film
(1909) France
Directed by [?] Max Linder?
Cast: Max Linder [Max de la Hautegomme]
Pathé Frères production; distributed by Pathé Frères. / Scenario by Max Linder. / Released [?] 5 November? 1909. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by Pathé Frères [American] on 10 January 1910; in a split-reel with La femme aux Indes [Women in India] (1909).
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The heiress, Miss Moneybags, makes up her mind to marry, so, accompanied by her father and mother, she applies at a matrimonial agency where she is shown photographs of the different eligibles on their list, for he must possess good looks besides being a man of aristocratic birth. Several photographs are examined and cast aside until the proprietor of the agency shows them a picture of a handsome but impecunious nobleman who immediately attracts the young girl’s fancy. In the next scene we see the handsome, impecunious one receiving the telephone message from the agent, saying he has an heiress for him and to come at once to the office. In his haste he wrecks the room, knocks down a fat woman on the stairs and collides with everything from an automobile to a baby carriage he meets on the way. Although spick-and-span enough when he started out he arrives at the matrimonial agency looking like the only surviving member of a railroad wreck. When the girl sees him she begins to cry with disappointment and the father storms around the room at the deception that has been practiced upon them. The aspirant pleads for mercy and taking the father aside explains the case to him and prevails upon him to change clothes with him. When he reappears wearing the old gentleman’s frock coat he is quite presentable and the girl takes him to her heart. But the poor father who is waiting in another room decked out in the torn and tattered garments of the young man is soon set upon by a howling mob that bursts into the place looking for the man who in his hasty dash through the streets but a few moments before had aroused their indignation by colliding with and injuring each and every one of them in turn.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [France]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 April 2024.
References: MovPicWorld-19100108 p. 5 : Website-IMDb.
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