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Jerry’s Uncle’s Namesake
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Sidney Drew
Cast: Sidney Drew [Jerry Brown], Louise Beaudet [Jerry’s wife], L. Rogers Lytton [Jerry’s uncle], Kate Price [Mrs. Simpson], William Shea [Mr. Simpson], Ethel Lloyd [the maid], Karl Formes
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a story by Lillian Case Russell. / Released 6 January 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A reporter sees Jerry buying presents for a baby and concludes that they must be for his own. She puts an article in the paper which Jerry’s uncle in the country sees. He sends congratulations and intimates he might be moved to give Jerry a big check. Jerry mails uncle a photograph of “the baby,” his wife’s dressmaker’s baby, and invites Uncle to visit him. Jerry borrows the dressmaker’s baby and when uncle arrives, points proudly to it as his own. Uncle gives Jerry a big check. A critical situation arises when the dressmaker comes for her child. Jerry persuades her to wait. She agrees, but looks forbidding. She returns soon and insists upon the return of her child. With the baby gone Jerry is panic-stricken and persuades Uncle to go back home. But Uncle misses his train and returns to wait and have another look at the baby. Jerry telephones frantically to his wife to make some excuse. She rushes out and induces a friend to lend her a baby. Jerry, coming home, sees a colored mammy with a baby. When Uncle is asleep in the parlor, Jerry rushes out and borrows it. Mary, the maid, realizing the situation, goes out and borrows a baby from the butcher’s wife. Jerry returns. The baby he has is heavy and has long hair. The first baby was light and had no hair. Jerry is trying to explain, when his wife comes in with baby number two. Uncle is bewildered. He asks if Jerry has twins. Twins. Of course. A fine explanation. Uncle makes out a second check. While Jerry and his wife have taken the “twins” from the room, Mary enters and takes Uncle upstairs and shows him baby number three. She has not seen the other two. Jerry’s triplicity is discovered when three mothers arrive and clamor for their children. The dressmaker comes also to show off Jerry’s little namesake in its new clothes. Four babies. Uncle demands the return of his check and he stamps angrily from the house. Jerry collapses and jumps at the sound of anything that reminds him of babies.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Newspapers: Reporters - Rich uncles
Listing updated: 30 December 2024.
References: Lahue-World p. 20 : Website-IMDb.
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