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Dad’s Darling Daughters

Name: Dad’s Darling Daughters
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1916-04-24

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

The story

“Dad, a grouch, had five pretty daughters. Five young fellows proposed to them and were accepted. One day father, thinking that his days of work had reached an end, called upon his son-in-law the barber. He was given a brush and a razor and was put to work. Next came the garage owner, who also put the old man to work. Then he appealed to the milliner and later to the contractor. But in neither instance did he make a hit. Then he met the widow who, taking advantage of leap year, proposed to him. This time father accepted.”

Summary from Exhibitors Herald · 6 May 1916

Another synopsis, from Reel Life · 22 April 19161 min

“Dad, a grouch and lazy old duffer, had five pretty daughters. Five hard-working young fellows proposed to them and were accepted, regardless of father’s expostulations. One day father, thinking that his days of work had reached an end, called upon his son-in-law the barber. He was given a brush and a razor and put to work. Next came the garage owner, who put the old man to work under a car and then turned on the juice, hoping that father’s neck might get in the way. Then he appealed to the milliner and later to the contractor. But in neither instance did he make a hit. Then he met the widow who, taking advantage of leap year, had proposed to him. This time father accepted.”

What the papers said

1 review

“Riley Chamberlin is featured in this as the father of five girls. He sets their lovers to sawing wood, while he sits on the porch. After they are married the various sons-in-law get even by making the old man work when he visits them. The plot is nonsensical, but contains a good idea of the quietly amusing sort.”

The Moving Picture World · 6 May 1916