The Lure of the Ladies (1914)
Jack McIlvain, a club fellow, a society man, the product of modern riches and idleness, seemingly with nothing to do and less to think about, all at once becomes impressed with the fact that he ought not be a bachelor any longer, and proceeds to get a little advice on the subject from a fortune teller, who lives in atmospheric condition and who needs a change of linen and bath ticket. This ancient and aromatic dame tells the handsome young man annex of minus, that the next young woman he sees that day will become his wife. This misinformation bores itself into the McIlvain bean with such effect that the young man breaks all precedent and gets busy at once. He feels that he has been grieving long enough in his bachelor quarters as he looks over his photographs and sees more fair faces in the rings from the smoke of his cigarette. When he starts on his morning constitutional he observes a young woman step into a jewelry store, carelessly look over a few diamond tiaras, and then pass them back to the clerk with a look of utmost disdain. He immediately takes her to be the woman of his fate, an heiress of unlimited wealth. She goes into a barbershop where he goes to have his face fixed, and turns out to be a manicurist. Although his face is lathered he makes love to the fair one, as she trims his digits. All of a sudden he sees a skirt flutter by in the street and rushes madly after it, pursued by the manicurist and the barber. This young woman goes into a sanitarium and the undaunted McIlvain follows her and soon finds himself trussed up in a straitjacket, pinned onto a couch on the advice of the barber who pronounces him insane. Eventually he manages to get on his feet and walks down the street with a couch attached to him. He meets another fair one and she thinking he is an unusual man, listens to his proposal. She is an heiress and when she leaves the room to get her father and mother, he makes love to her French maid, and her husky sweetheart coming on the scene, fires him through the window. The jar of this tames him for a while and he goes to his apartments to think it over, and concludes to be less precipitate in his courtship hereafter.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Oscar Eagle | Director |
| William M. Hough | Writer |
| Oscar Eagle | Producer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Gayne Whitman | |
| Rose Evans | |
| William Walcott | |
| Adrienne Kroell |
