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I Did It, Momma
Also known as {I Did It, Mamma}
(1909) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / [?] 342 or 372? feet
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Anita Hendrie [the mother], Adele de Garde [Gladys, the little girl], Gladys Egan [Claude, the little boy], Dorothy West [the maid], Linda Arvidson [a visitor], Arthur V. Johnson, Florence Lawrence
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Scenario by [?] D.W. Griffith? Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 11 March 1909 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H123871]. Released 15 March 1909; in a split-reel with The Lure of the Gown (1909). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
[?] Comedy?
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Little Gladys and Claude are playing in the nursery. Claude has monopolized the building blocks to the extreme perturbation of Gladys. She, with sly procedure, knocks over the little castle Claude has built. The children at once engage in a bitter quarrel, and Gladys leaves the room, going into the dining room just after the maid has put some cream puffs on the table. Gladys appropriates them and Claude enters and asks for a share, which she refuses. He then eats up the sugar, which is left on the plate. Mamma enters as Gladys sneaks out of the room, and discovering the loss of the puffs accuses Claude, who mutely receives the punishment, a switching. Gladys hearing this is seized with a spirit of contrition, and coming from her hiding place says “I did it, mamma,” and picks up the switch, hands it to mamma, saying “whip me.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 20 December 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 41; Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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