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Goodness Gracious (1914)
Directed by James Young
Romance, Comedy · 22m
Clara Kimball Young, batting her eyelashes even faster than Bernadette Peters, plays Gwendoline, an innocent(?) heroine who seeks a livelihood in the big city. She's briefly employed in a 'bucket shop' (a crooked brokerage house) and arouses the attention of a moustache-twirling top-hatted villain (played by her real-life husband James Young). After temporarily escaping his clutches, she finds gainful employment in the firm of a dry-goods millionaire (James Lackaye). The millionaire's youthful son Cornelius (played by Sidney Drew, well into middle age) falls in love with her ... but his father disapproves of their marriage, and he cuts off Cornelius with only a shilling (24 cents, it says here in the titles). The villain arrives, murders Gwendoline's employer (just temporarily, mind you) and frames Cornelius for the crime. Will true love triumph?
Cast
Sidney Drew
Clara Kimball Young
Crew
- Director
- James Young
Details
- Release date
- 1914-02-07
- Runtime
- 22m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Vitagraph Company of America