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The Fable of the Honeymoon That Tried to Come Back

The Fable of the Honeymoon That Tried to Come Back

1914Short
ComedyShort

Once there was a married couple. They were just as peaceful as a couple of Wild Cats. One morning Hubby found a book on his desk, "How to Make Your Home Happy," was the title. He gave it the "once over" and decided to follow the b...

Director
Richard Foster Baker
Writers
N/A
Stars
Harry Dunkinson, Gerda Holmes
Release Date
September 9, 1914
Language
None, English
Country
United States
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🎭 Top Cast

Harry Dunkinson
Harry Dunkinson
as The Husband
Gerda Holmes
Gerda Holmes
as The Wife

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

🏷️ Keywords

satireamericana

🎯 Categories

ComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

George Ade
by boblipton2019-01-18

"Harry Dunkinson and Gerda Holmes are a married couple who go at it at the breakfast table and onto the front porch as he heads to work; that is to say, they bicker. Mr. Dunkinson finds a copy of a book on how to be happily married and takes it to heart. He send his wife gifts and calls her by terms of endearment. She, of course, decides he's guilty of something. George Ade, who wrote these "Fables" for Essanay, was an American newspaperman and humorist (sometimes it seems as if the two roles are indistinguishable). When I first encountered him fifty years ago, he had already su..."

📖 Synopsis

Once there was a married couple. They were just as peaceful as a couple of Wild Cats. One morning Hubby found a book on his desk, "How to Make Your Home Happy," was the title. He gave it the "once over" and decided to follow the b...