A Leap Year Comedy (1912)
Pete Miller, a widower with a grown son and daughter, sees his new neighbor, the widow Bonnie, also the mother of a grown son and daughter, and falls in love with her. The first intimation Peter's children have that their father is a victim of Cupid is when his daughter Jessie finds him in Sunday dress vainly trying to conceal from her a generous bouquet he has gathered apropos to calling on the widow. Jessie immediately informs her brother Jack who instructs her to keep an eye on her father. The widow's daughter Pearl comes upon her mother in gala attire and suspects that the mother is receiving attentions and when her brother Bob returns immediately informs him of her suspicions. He instructs her to keep an eye on her mother. So when Peter calls to pay his respects to Mrs. Bonnie, Pearl made an unwelcome third party and courtship was at I a standstill. Peter departed in a huff and Mrs. Bonnie scolded her daughter in her vexation. But, if the young folks imagine themselves smart, the old I folks have had more experience and are quite clever in the matching of wits. They get their sons and daughters together and the young people become so deeply interested in each other that they neglect to watch their father and mother. When they come to it is too late. Pearl and Jack wake up from their love dream to remember that the old folks need watching. The same thought possesses Jessie and Bob and both couples make a simultaneous rush to where they have left their respective parents. All they find is a calendar with the date February 29th and Peter's note, signed "Father and Mother," and telling them they will be back in a week. It dawns on the girls that it is leap year and they mockingly propose to their sweethearts.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Allan Dwan | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| Louise Lester | |
| George Periolat |
