Strictly Business (1917)
Bob Hart, vaudeville actor, has written a sketch called "Mice Will Play." He has looked in vain for the right woman to play the woman's part with him. One day he sees Cherry in a vaudeville turn and likes her so well that he calls at her boarding house and asks her to take the part. He reads the sketch to her and she makes many changes in it. They each have dreams of what their salaries will bring in it. No nonsense for them. On its try-out performance the sketch is a big success and manager signs it up for a long circuit. That night when Bob takes Cherry home she invites him in and makes a strictly business proposition which will make their $500 a week salary go further. The sketch is a thriller in which a western girl uses a 32-caliber revolver with real cartridges to shoot her rival's photograph. After two years successful run on circuit, Cherry becomes very nervous one night and instead of shooting the picture's face, she shoots Bob in the neck. He falls; she faints and the audience is delighted. A doctor finds Bob's hurt slight, but Cherry being held by three to keep her away from him, thinks she has killed him. A mutual friend of each sees Cherry and then goes to Bob, telling him that the girl is "crying her eyes out for him," "wild about him," "in love with him," etc., etc. To all this Bob is absolutely incredulous. Cherry is "strictly business." The friend replies, "She is calling your name so loud they can't ring up the curtain," and Bob says, "It is too late, man. Why, Cherry and I have been married two years."
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GenresDrama
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Thomas R. Mills | Director |
| William B. Courtney | Writer |
| O. Henry | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Doris Kenyon | |
| Alice Terry | |
| J. Frank Glendon |
