Volume II: Filmography

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

(Princess)

February 20, 1914 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (962 feet)

Character: Comedy

Director: Carl Louis Gregory

Cameraman: Carl Louis Gregory

Cast: Morgan Jones (Mr. Adams, a well-to-do farmer), Catherine Webb (Mrs. Benson, a young widow), Muriel Ostriche (Muriel, her daughter, age 17), Boyd Marshall (Dr. Boyd, ambitious but poor), Eugene Redding (Mr. Martin, a wealthy brewer), Miss Pike (Japanese maid, assistant in tea room), Frances Keyes (Christine, an unemotional Swedish maid)

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, February 14, 1914:

"Mrs. Benson and her daughter support themselves by keeping a Japanese tea room. Mrs. Benson is astonishingly young and pretty to be the mother of a seventeen year old daughter, and she feels her responsibility for Muriel so seriously that she cannot think at all of her own opportunities. Her one idea is to shield Muriel from hardships and marry her to a prosperous man who will take good care of her and make her happy. Young Dr. Boyd is ambitious but poor and whenever he tries to have any little tete-a-tete with Muriel, her mother always manages to attract the young man's attention to herself, while she encourages Muriel to smile upon Mr. Adams, an elderly gentleman with a country estate, who fairly radiates prosperity. But, in the end, after much annoyance and boredom for the young people, and a good deal of unconscious comedy on the part of Mrs. Benson, fate brings Boyd and Muriel together - while Mr. Adams utterly astounds the young widow by proposing to her, insisting that it is not her daughter at all whom he has always wished to marry, but herself."

REVIEW, The Morning Telegraph, February 22, 1914:

"Another example of a mother's idea of a successful marriage conflicting with the daughter's notion of a happy one is presented in this comedy. Muriel Ostriche and Boyd Marshall play the leading parts. Muriel's widowed mother wants her to marry a man of means instead of the poor Dr. Boyd. In the end Muriel has her way, while her mother marries the man she had picked for her daughter."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, March 7, 1914: This review is reprinted in narrative section of the present work.

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