Won in a Closet (1914)

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.

Release Date : January 21, 1914

Runtime : 14m

Genre : Comedy  

Companies : Keystone Film Company, Mutual Film Corporation

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : silent film, one-reeler, woman director