Volume II: Filmography

STEVEN'S SWEET SISTERS

(Falstaff)

May 20, 1916 (Saturday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Drama

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cast: Jay C. Yorke (Steven), Frances Keyes (spinster lady), Doris Grey (sister), Gladys Leslie (sister), Isolde Illian (sister)

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

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, May 13, 1916:

"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."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, May 27, 1916:

"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."

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