The Ageless Sex (1914)
While reading the paper, John Weller is amazed at the number of "ads" setting forth the virtues of wigs, false teeth, form developers and other female beautifiers, turns to his wife and declares in disgust, "This magazine must have a big circulation among old ladies who want to look like Cinderellas." She merely laughs, and soon afterwards, Weller falls asleep in his chair. He dreams that he finds an old man making love to his wife, angrily confronts the old fellow and is told, "Your wife was my sweetheart sixty years ago." John is stunned by the news, asks his wife if it is true and she admits she is "eighty-five years old." Deciding she must be one of those women who preserve their youthful appearance by artifice, he commands her to retire behind a screen and hand out all that is false about her. After receiving a wig, various "form plumpers," a full set of false teeth and pair of wooden legs, John angrily kicks over the screen and to his horror finds nothing left but a little heap of clothes. Sobbing the poor fellow calls up the undertaker who brings a tiny coffin and tenderly places the remains in it. Weller mournfully tells the undertaker, "She was false to me but I love her just the same." The gentleman in black nods gravely and goes out with the coffin. John wakes up weeping and finds his wife staring at him in astonishment. He is still bewildered and to make sure she is real makes her open her mouth, pulls her hair and looks into her eyes, then with a sigh of relief takes her in his arms and kisses her, convinced she is all there.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harry Lambart | Director |
| John Francis Beckwith | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Naomi Childers | |
| Darwin Karr | |
| George Stevens | |
| Charles Eldridge |
