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Mates and Mis-Mates (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short

Mates and Mis-Mates (1912)

Short | Comedy, Short

Mabel Wentworth and Jack Allison are sweethearts and love each other devotedly, although their parents have other plans for their children and their dream of love is shattered. Mabel is forced to marry Will Howard, a society man, and Alice...See moreMabel Wentworth and Jack Allison are sweethearts and love each other devotedly, although their parents have other plans for their children and their dream of love is shattered. Mabel is forced to marry Will Howard, a society man, and Alice Middleton is the convenient wife for Jack. The story concerns the two homes with the husband of the gay butterfly repenting the choice of the mother, and Mabel grieving as the true character of her husband is revealed. Jack struggles to maintain his wife in the society she covets and fails. He is about to blow out his brains with a revolver when fate intervenes in another manner. His wife elopes with the husband of his sweetheart, and he is relieved. The wife has proven false and unworthy, and he upbraids his mother for choosing a helpmate so base. Mabel is leading a life of uneasiness and is miserable. Her husband brings a gay woman of the world to their home and openly flirts with her. There are a series of flirtations and finally an elopement, and Mabel returns to her father, and is grand in her indignation. She tells him all and he is shocked and repentant. He sees the injustice of it all and the saddened life of his cherished daughter. The shock kills him. The guilty partner and the wife of Jack go rowing and are enjoying their flight when their boat is upset, and they are drowned together with the mother who was instrumental in wrecking the lives of two estimable young people. The story closes with the other couple on an eminence. The glamour has worn off and they quarrel and both are dashed to their death. Mabel embarks in a boat to end her existence in a watery grave and Jack appears on the bank bent on self-destruction. He throws himself into the water and is rescued by the girl he has always loved. Barriers removed, they are happy and are free to marry. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Fritzi Brunette Mabel Wentworth Mabel Wentworth See fewer	The Green Flame (1920)
Guy Powell Jack Allison Jack Allison See fewer	Getting Even (1912)
Ouida Bergère Alice Middleton Alice Middleton See fewer	The Hillcrest Mystery (1918)
John Charles Will Howard Will Howard See fewer	Sogarth Aroon (1912)