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The Wedding Bell (1911)
Short | Short, Drama

The Wedding Bell (1911)

Short | Short, Drama

Clara, the daughter of John Grey, is making her accustomed calls on the poor in the lower East Side of New York, finds the Fenilosi family, consisting of mother, Mona, aged nineteen, Ross, aged seven and Toni, aged eight, living in utmost ...See moreClara, the daughter of John Grey, is making her accustomed calls on the poor in the lower East Side of New York, finds the Fenilosi family, consisting of mother, Mona, aged nineteen, Ross, aged seven and Toni, aged eight, living in utmost poverty in one room, amid shockingly unsanitary conditions. The mother is ill and unable to work, and in order to earn bread for the family, Mona is making artificial flowers, assisted by the other two children. Clara, desirous of helping them, gives Mona an order for several hundred flowers which, she explains, she desires to use in making a large bell for her wedding, which is to take place in a short time. Clara, her fiancé, Samuel Rice, and their friends, Dr. Watts and Marian Linsey, are busily engaged decorating the wedding bell. During the process Clara has several slight fainting spells but as they pass away almost immediately, no importance is attached to them. Clara and Rice are married the next evening, but no sooner has the minister pronounced them husband and wife than Clara falls fainting into her husband's arms. She is at once put to bed, and Dr. Watts diagnoses the illness as typhoid fever. Mr. Rice, in trying to arrive at the cause of the illness, recalls Clara's fainting spells while decorating the bell. They decide to examine the flowers on the bell. Dr. Watts puts them under the microscope and finds them infected with typhoid germs. Their search leads them to the tenement of the Fenilosis, where they find Mona in an atmosphere of disease and pestilence, making flowers. Dr. Watts finds the mother's illness a violent case of typhoid and, obtaining the agent's address from Mona, they hurry to his office to learn the name of the owner of the tenement. Upon stating their errand to the agent they are horrified to learn that the owner of the tenement is none other than Clara's father, John Grey. Rice then persuades Mr. Grey to visit the tenement. The latter gives orders to have the tenement renovated and remodeled, has the mother taken to the hospital. Clara is spared to him, and upon her recovery he takes her to the remodeled tenement, where we find the Fenilosi family living happily under the greatly improved conditions. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less