Lost1915Thanhouser CompanyTwo reelsComedy

The Adventure of Florence

Name: The Adventure of Florence
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1915-02-23

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The story

“Florence Clark, as she is leaving her friend’s apartment, calls back to her, ‘If you want me, phone Oak 515.’ John Travers, who is passing the house, overhears. He is greatly impressed with Florence’s appearance. That evening the girl has an unpleasant interview with her parents, who wish her to marry Dr. Ward, a business friend of her father’s. She refuses to consider Ward. When Travers calls up and asks her to dine with him the next evening, though she realizes that it is a daring and unconventional thing to do, she is in a mood to accept. In Travers, Florence discovers the man she has always dreamed of meeting some day—and later, when her father finds that he holds an important interest in the very mines in which Dr. Ward is interested, he removes his objections to the match.”

Summary from Reel Life · 13 February 1915

What the papers said

2 reviews · 1 advertisement

“Florence refuses to marry Dr. Ward. She looks with favor on the suit of Travers. When her father learns that he is wealthy he withdraws his objections to the match.”

The Morning Telegraph · 21 February 1915

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“Florence LaBadie and Morris Foster appear in the two-reel number, which makes the successful offering of the polite comedy type. The comedy is sustained through both reels. The girl allows a young man to call who has seen her in her auto and been attracted by her. The parents return from the opera and she hides him; the father thinks he is a burglar. He escapes. Later he turns out to be the wealthy John Travers, for whom the father has been searching. This is well constructed, in good tone and has an enjoyable touch of romance in it.”

The Moving Picture World · 27 February 1915

20 February 1915Reel Life1 min

“A tensely interesting two-reel romantic drama built around the accidental meeting of a maid and a man through a telephone number overheard by chance. Florence LaBadie, the famous heroine of The Million Dollar Mystery, is featured, supported by an all-star cast.”

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Cast and crew

Cast: Arthur Bauer as Dr. Ward
: Fannie Hoyt as her mother
: Florence La Badie as Florence Clark
: Justus D. Barnes as her father
: J. Morris Foster as John Travers

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More about this film

Bowers’ notes: The release date of this film was given erroneously as February 13, 1915 in a review in The Moving Picture World, issue of February 27, 1915. 2. In some notices the title appeared erroneously as The Adventures of Florence.

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, “The Adventure of Florence”. thanhouser.org/films/the-adventure-of-florence/

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