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1914PrincessOne reelComedy

All’s Well that Ends Well

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The story

“Mrs. Benson and her daughter support themselves by keeping a Japanese tea room. Mrs. Benson is astonishingly young and pretty to be the mother of a seventeen year old daughter, and she feels her responsibility for Muriel so seriously that she cannot think at all of her own opportunities. Her one idea is to shield Muriel from hardships and marry her to a prosperous man who will take good care of her and make her happy. Young Dr. Boyd is ambitious but poor and whenever he tries to have any little tete-a-tete with Muriel, her mother always manages to attract the young man’s attention to herself, while she encourages Muriel to smile upon Mr. Adams, an elderly gentleman with a country estate, who fairly radiates prosperity. But, in the end, after much annoyance and boredom for the young people, and a good deal of unconscious comedy on the part of Mrs. Benson, fate brings Boyd and Muriel together—while Mr. Adams utterly astounds the young widow by proposing to her, insisting that it is not her daughter at all whom he has always wished to marry, but herself.”

Summary from Reel Life · 14 February 1914

What the papers said

2 reviews

“Another example of a mother’s idea of a successful marriage conflicting with the daughter’s notion of a happy one is presented in this comedy. Muriel Ostriche and Boyd Marshall play the leading parts. Muriel’s widowed mother wants her to marry a man of means instead of the poor Dr. Boyd. In the end Muriel has her way, while her mother marries the man she had picked for her daughter.”

The Morning Telegraph · 22 February 1914

This review is reprinted in narrative section of the present work.

The Moving Picture World · 7 March 1914

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Cast and crew

Director
Carl Louis Gregory
Cast
Boyd Marshall as Dr. Boyd, ambitious but poor
Catherine Webb as Mrs. Benson, a young widow
Eugene Redding as Mr. Martin, a wealthy brewer
Frances Keyes as Christine, an unemotional Swedish maid
Miss Pike as Japanese maid, assistant in tea room
Morgan Jones as Mr. Adams, a well-to-do farmer
Muriel Ostriche as Muriel, her daughter, age 17
Photographed by
Carl Louis Gregory

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More about this film

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1914 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “All’s Well that Ends Well”. thanhouser.org/films/all-s-well-that-ends-well/

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