This comedy was produced from the idea that twins, even when they mature into extremely large women, look very much alike and may be mistaken for one another when, after a separation as children, they meet again by chance as grown-ups in the same town. The basic idea is an old one, but it has been developed here with an original viewpoint and some novel turns which make the story refreshingly new and interesting. Patsy, who has the good fortune of marrying one of the twins and the bad fortune of mistaking the other for his wife, is a good comic character. The probabilities are not strained in the succeeding entanglements, and little byplays skillfully introduced from time to time are very successful. The production will win a laugh in any playhouse. - The Moving Picture World, October 26, 1912
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I'm guessing Horace Davies Plays Patsy
boblipton29 April 2024
When papa come home drunk, mama decides to leave with the twins. But papa grabs one, and mama and one of the girls disappears. Years pass, and they all wind up in the same town unknown to each other. The one with mama is married to Patsy -- presumably, the performer is Horace Davies -- who keeps mistaking which one is his wife.
It's a comedy from David Horsley's Nestor Film company, the first motion picture company shooting in Hollywood. It's a fairly well-told movie for 1912, showing clearly that D. W. Griffith's innovations at Biograph were taking hold. Its humor, though, relies more on the situation than the sort of comical mugging and well constructed gag structure that Mack Sennett was beginning to produce.
It's a comedy from David Horsley's Nestor Film company, the first motion picture company shooting in Hollywood. It's a fairly well-told movie for 1912, showing clearly that D. W. Griffith's innovations at Biograph were taking hold. Its humor, though, relies more on the situation than the sort of comical mugging and well constructed gag structure that Mack Sennett was beginning to produce.
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