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1915PrincessOne reelComedy

Just Kids

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The story

“Uncle Ned volunteers to care for little Helen and Lawrence while his sister is away. The children lead their dignified relative a lively dance. The things that happen to him remind one of the pranks a couple of clowns in a circus might play on a third, unfortunate member. And the climax comes when, seeing uncle open his safe to take out some papers, the youngsters call in the police. Uncle Ned is so surprised that he puts up a fight and gets the worst of it. At last the tangle is straightened out—and the children are packed off to their mother.”

Summary from Reel Life · 10 April 1915

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Cast and crew

Cast
Helen Badgley as Helen
Leland Benham as Lawrence
William H. Stevens

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More about this film

Bowers’ notes
  1. Another picture, The Reformation of Peter and Paul, was originally scheduled for release on this date as a Princess film, but it was rescheduled and ultimately released as a regular (not Princess) film on April 23, 1915. 2. Just Kids was the last Princess release. After this time, the Friday slot was occupied by Falstaff films.

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1915 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Just Kids”. thanhouser.org/films/just-kids/

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