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1916FalstaffOne reelComedy

Steven’s Sweet Sisters

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The story

“Steven was a bachelor and lived with his three sisters. He received word that a relative had died, leaving $100,000 under most peculiar conditions. If Steven was married he got all the money, otherwise it was to be divided among those of his three sisters who wedded before he did. Steven lured the girls into a room upstairs and locked them in, telling them he was going to get married. He called on several damsels, and finally in despair, picked up a maiden lady of uncertain years. In the meantime the girls had communicated to one of their suitors. The three suitors routed out the justice of the peace. They were wedded—bridegrooms outside and brides in the house. When brother reached his own home unmarried he was in time to receive three stalwart brothers-in-law. Needless to remark, the fortune was not for him.”

Summary from Reel Life · 13 May 1916

What the papers said

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“In this farce comedy Stephen [sic] has three pretty sisters, all of whom have beaus, much to the disgust of bachelor Stephen. There comes a time, however, when Stephen changes his ideas on the subject of matrimony and decides to take a wife at any cost, in order that he may qualify for an inheritance which he will be obliged to share with whichever of his sisters marry first. This is fairly interesting.”

The Moving Picture World · 27 May 1916

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Cast and crew

Cast
Doris Grey as sister
Frances Keyes as spinster lady
Gladys Leslie as sister
Isolde Illian as sister
Jay C. Yorke as Steven
Writer
Lloyd F. Lonergan

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Bowers’ notes

The title of this film was misspelled as Stephen’s Sweet Sisters in a review in The Moving Picture World, May 27, 1916.

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1916 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Steven’s Sweet Sisters”. thanhouser.org/films/steven-s-sweet-sisters/

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