When John Brought Home His Wife (1913)
John Robins is a young farmer with a deep yearning for the city and a distaste for everything that savors of his country existence. He shocks his parents with his "advanced" ideas when he tells them he is going to the city to make a fortune and to see life. They protest, but seeing no other way out of it allow him to go. John stops at a theatrical boarding house in the city and the taunts and scorns of the theater folks over the newly arrived "boob" only inflame his resentment of his country antecedents. Helen Phalen, a chorus girl, takes his side and does her best to make him forget his country awkwardness and in his appreciation of her efforts John falls in love with her. They both look for work, John happy to get anything that will give a start toward the fortune he is after and Helen anxious for a place with the chorus of any one of the new shows. Both fall utterly and soon come to the end of their resources. John in his discouragement looks at his last dollar and figuring life as a failure concludes to pack up and go home and admit that he is a failure. Helen enters her room at the same time and throws herself down in a storm of despairing sobs. He comforts her and then a daring idea occurs to him to change their luck by using their last dollar to get married. She agrees and they become the happiest of creatures until they get back from the minister's and face the reality of their troubles again. But luck has changed in the form of a letter from his mother, enclosing him money and telling him they are getting old and need him. Helen discards all her theatrical clothes, cosmetics, etc., and with their few plain clothes packed in the old carpet bag they go back to the farm, where the old folks receive them with open arms.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Arthur V. Johnson | Director |
| George Terwilliger | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Arthur V. Johnson | |
| Lottie Briscoe | |
| Charles Brandt | |
| Clara Lambert |
