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What Might Have Been (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

What Might Have Been (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

The old broker was very wealthy, but he was very old and very homely. In his younger days he had been too mean and stingy to marry, and as the years passed he did not see any reason for giving up his liberty. Finally the time came when he ...See moreThe old broker was very wealthy, but he was very old and very homely. In his younger days he had been too mean and stingy to marry, and as the years passed he did not see any reason for giving up his liberty. Finally the time came when he fell in love with his stenographer. She was young and pretty, but they did not have one taste in common and had they married their life would undoubtedly have been decidedly unhappy. Just the same, the broker proposed and was mighty surprised when the girl rejected him. She did not tell him who his favorite rival was, but he speedily learned that the lucky man was one of his own clerks, a handsome chap drawing an extremely small salary. The broker at first planned all sorts of things, such as discharging the young couple or intimidating them in some manner, and was still brooding over revenge that evening when he fell asleep at his own handsome fireplace. Naturally he dreamed of what he would like to do, and in his dreams he cleverly rid himself of his rival by proving him guilty of burglary: then there was no bar to his marriage with the girl, especially after (in his dreams) the young convict had been shot down while trying to escape from prison. if the dream had stopped there, perhaps the old broker would have tried something of that kind, for he was a man absolutely without conscience. Maybe a good angel took a hand in the development of the dream the broker imagined that after he had proposed to the girl, the spirit of the dead convict came between them, haunted him in a most unpleasant way, and finally choked him so vigorously that he was glad to wake up. Now although the broker was old and inclined to be foolish in some matters, he had lots of sense otherwise. He took the dream as a warning of what might have been, and quickly decided that no woman in the world was worth such torments as he had just gone through, so he called the young couple into his office, raised the bridegroom's pay, and bode them marry and be happy for ever afterwards. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Riley Chamberlin Rolfe, the Old Broker Rolfe, the Old Broker See fewer	His Winning Way (1914)
Ethyle Cooke Marie, Rolfe's Stenographer (as Ethel Cooke) Marie, Rolfe's Stenographer (as Ethel Cooke) See fewer	The Merchant of Venice (1912)
Harry Benham Billy, Rolfe's Clerk Billy, Rolfe's Clerk See fewer	The Dancer's Peril (1917)
N.Z. Wood Rolfe's Butler (as Nick Woods) Rolfe's Butler (as Nick Woods) See fewer	Peggy's Invitation (1913)
George Barnes The Police Lieutenant The Police Lieutenant See fewer	Cardinal Richelieu's Ward (1914)
Billy Noel A Policeman A Policeman See fewer	Her Nephews from Labrador (1913)
Arthur Bauer A Policeman A Policeman See fewer	The Unfortunate Marriage (1917)