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Papa’s Darling
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Ray Smallwood (Ray C. Smallwood)
Cast: Ethel Grandin [Ethel], William E. Shay [Ethel’s papa]
Independent Moving Pictures Company, Incorporated [IMP] production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Released 22 June 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Ethel, the daughter of a Wall Street broker asks her father to give her a trip to Europe; when he refuses, she suggests that he sign an agreement with her: if she can make enough money in three months to pay for the trip, he will permit her to go. He takes it as a joke, but signs. She then looks for work, but finds that all the chances are for men. Finally, entirely discouraged and almost in tears, she dons men’s attire. She deceives even her father as to her gender and obtains work in his office, where she falls for his general manager, Billy. She reads a telegram giving a “sure thing” market tip and gets Billy to invest her money. She wins. She goes into the private office to put the money in her stocking and is surprised by a mouse. She screams and throws her wig at the mouse. Billy enters, and is surprised — and happy — to find that she is a girl; he had been unable to account for “his” peculiar attractiveness. Father gives her the Europe trip as honeymoon for her and Billy.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 4 July 1914, page ?] In this Ethel Grandin plays the daughter of a rich man who masquerades as a young man and secures work in her father’s office. The story is almost farcical in its situations and we like Miss Grandin better in her own style of apparel. Still this will probably interest many observers.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 21 November 2022.
References: Slide-Aspects p. 32 : Website-IMDb.
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