Won in a Closet

Won in a Closet — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 21, 1914
• Runtime
• 14 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Mabel Normand

Won in a Closet — 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