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1915PrincessOne reelComedy

Who Got Stung?

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The story

“The bliss of the Brays, two newlyweds, is turned to bitterness by a telegram to the effect that Mrs. Bray’s mother will arrive next day. Bray carries the old lady’s photograph to his office to remind him of his troubles, where it is stolen by two friends of his, Harry and Jim. They decide to put up a joke on Bray. Harry, who is an actor, gets into a make-up as much like the photograph as possible. Meanwhile Bray has returned home to prepare a welcome for his mother-in-law, including a mine under the front steps and a break-away ceiling in the guest room. His wife is away. Harry and Jim seize the opportunity to go over to Bray’s, Jim pretending he has found the mother-in-law at the station. The mine works all right, and the ceiling comes down. But the ruse being discovered, Bray dopes Harry’s whiskey with tabasco. The doctor is called, and order is restored barely in time to welcome Mrs. Bray’s return with the real mother-in-law.”

Summary from Reel Life · 13 February 1915

What the papers said

2 reviews · 1 article

“Bray plans a reception for his mother-in-law. He plants a mine under the front steps and a breakaway ceiling in the guestroom. But a friend of his, an actor, comes dressed as the mother-in-law. He gets the reception. Then the real guest arrives.”

The Morning Telegraph · 14 February 1915

“An entertaining farcical number in which the young married man’s actor friends play a joke on him. One of them impersonates his mother-in-law. The situations are full of good humored horseplay which becomes very funny in places.”

The Moving Picture World · 27 February 1915

Article

13 February 1915The Moving Picture World1 min

The following notice may have been related to the female impersonation Marshall did for this film

“Boyd Marshall, leading man for the Princess Company, created a riot last week in New Rochelle by strolling along Main Street garbed as a debutante calmly smoking a pipe.”

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Cast and crew

Cast
Boyd Marshall as in two roles; as “his mother-in-law” and as Harry, Bill’s friend
Ethel Jewett as Bess Bray, his wife
John Reinhard as Bill Bray
Kenneth Clarendon as Jim
Irene Farrington as the maid

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More about this film

Bowers’ notes

The title appeared in some notices without the question mark at the end.

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, “Who Got Stung?”. thanhouser.org/films/who-got-stung/

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