The Shadow on the Blind (1912)
Harry Furniss and his young daughter live across the way from an autocratic old gentleman who has a son. The young people fall in love promptly and, of course, the autocratic father has other plans for his heir. One night he sees the shadow of his son and the young woman opposite thrown in strong relief upon the blind and promptly sends after the youth bidding him reserve his attentions for the lady of wealth already chosen for him. When the young man reports this to the artist and his daughter, the artist in a spirit of mischief and to help the young lovers, seats the girl before the blind and sketches her silhouette thereon. Consequently the stern parent across the way sees the young girl apparently alone, at least her shadow is there, and little dreams that the young people may be enjoying themselves in quite another part of the room. The artist's father carries his role of matchmaker a little farther. Dressing his daughter in exaggerated suffragette get-up, he makes a caricature sketch of her which is sent to the young man signed with the name of the woman picked out by his father. As the real Miss Golding is unknown to either father or son, save as the daughter of an old friend of the father, this portrait easily passes for what it seems. Consequently, when pretending to go to the train to meet Miss Golding, the young man brings back the girl who looks like the portrait in a measure. The old father hurries up wedding preparations and demands that his son marry the girl at once. The ceremony is hardly over before the real Miss Golding appears upon the scene and explanations are in order. As the real little bride is attractive and the real Miss Golding is not, the old father is not so difficult to persuade in the end.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harry Furniss | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Harry Furniss | |
| Gertrude McCoy | |
| Augustus Phillips | |
| Robert Brower |
