Volume II: Filmography

DAD'S DARLING DAUGHTERS

(Falstaff)

April 24, 1916 (Monday)

Length: 1 reel (1,016 feet)

Character: Comedy

Director: William A. Howell

Assistant director: William Sullivan

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cameraman: George K. Hollister

Cast: Riley Chamberlin (Dad), Walter Hiers (a suitor), Violet Hite

Location: Jacksonville, Florida

Note: Filming of this subject commenced on Monday, March 6, 1916.

SYNOPSIS, Exhibitors Herald, May 6, 1916:

"Dad, a grouch, had five pretty daughters. Five young fellows proposed to them and were accepted. One day father, thinking that his days of work had reached an end, called upon his son-in-law the barber. He was given a brush and a razor and was put to work. Next came the garage owner, who also put the old man to work. Then he appealed to the milliner and later to the contractor. But in neither instance did he make a hit. Then he met the widow who, taking advantage of leap year, proposed to him. This time father accepted."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, April 22, 1916:

"Dad, a grouch and lazy old duffer, had five pretty daughters. Five hard-working young fellows proposed to them and were accepted, regardless of father's expostulations. One day father, thinking that his days of work had reached an end, called upon his son-in-law the barber. He was given a brush and a razor and put to work. Next came the garage owner, who put the old man to work under a car and then turned on the juice, hoping that father's neck might get in the way. Then he appealed to the milliner and later to the contractor. But in neither instance did he make a hit. Then he met the widow who, taking advantage of leap year, had proposed to him. This time father accepted."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, May 6, 1916:

"Riley Chamberlin is featured in this as the father of five girls. He sets their lovers to sawing wood, while he sits on the porch. After they are married the various sons-in-law get even by making the old man work when he visits them. The plot is nonsensical, but contains a good idea of the quietly amusing sort."

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