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Ethel’s Teacher
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Edward Dillon
Cast: Fay Tincher [Ethel], Edward Dillon [the teacher], Tod Browning [Hugh], Baldy Belmont [Deacon Titus]
Komic Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / [?] From a screen story by William J. Woodley? / Released 9 August 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Reel Life, 25 July 1914, page ?] Deacon Titus takes Ethel to the seashore. Hugh, her sweetheart, dons woman’s clothes and follows, introducing himself as Ethel’s teacher. Ethel’s real teacher arrives later and when all go into the water Hugh’s deception is discovered. Hugh puts his “female riggin’” in the deacon’s bathhouse and goes home in the latter’s clothes with Ethel, while the deacon is obliged to put on the discarded lady’s costume. He is chased away by the irate merry-makers.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 3 February 2010.
References: Skal-Browning p. 242.
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