Won in a Closet

Overview

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.

Cast

Mabel Normand

Mabel

Charles Avery

Mabel's Sweetheart

Hank Mann

A Rival Suitor / Farmhand

Charles Inslee

Her Dad / The Constable

Alice Davenport

His Mother

Rube Miller

A Farmhand

Nick Cogley

Al St. John

N/A

William Hauber

N/A

Frank Cooley