
Her Sick Father (1913)
Lillian's father lives amidst patent medicines, lotions, and pills under the constant impression that he is sick, and he exists under the dread of an early and sudden death. Consequently, when Charley meets Lillian, clandestinely, out in the rose garden their romance progresses with little success, for father's pains won't leave him unless Lillian is by his side to give him his medicine, and the young couple no sooner forget the world and its trouble when the yell of "I've got a pain" breaks in upon them and Lillian must leave. Charley decides something that strenuous must be done, and at once. He knows and Lillian knows that father only thinks he is sick, so they plan to have Charley, whom father has never met, visit him as a manipulator of the new school and effect a radical change. Charley arrives and against father's wishes they forcibly relieve him of all his medicines and pills and put him through a course of stunts that speedily make him sure he has no further aches and pains. The young couple leave him and out in the garden the old, old question is asked and coyly answered. Father, sure another pain is coming on, starts to yell, but first decides to see if the "doctor" has left. What he sees enrages him and he stamps up and down the room in anger at the trick they have played upon him. Then he realizes that he really isn't sick after all, and when the young romancers return he is more than ready to give them his blessing.All Releases
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Filmmakers | Role |
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Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
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Kempton Greene | |
Louise Huff |