Movie: Won in a Closet

Top 10 Billed Cast

Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand

Mabel

Charles Avery
Charles Avery

Mabel's Sweetheart

Hank Mann
Hank Mann

A Rival Suitor / Farmhand

Charles Inslee
Charles Inslee

Her Dad / The Constable

Alice Davenport
Alice Davenport

His Mother

Rube Miller
Rube Miller

A Farmhand

Nick Cogley
Nick Cogley

Al St. John
Al St. John

William Hauber
William Hauber

Frank Cooley
Frank Cooley

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    Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.

  • Release Date

    1914-01-21

  • Average

    4.4

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