Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch (1914)
1914 · Silent film · 79 min · dir. Harold Entwistle
- Drama
Synopsis
Before marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wiggs were employed as coachman and housekeeper to Col. Vanderhurst. The Colonel has disinherited his son, Jack, for marrying a girl connected with circus people. A few years later Jack is killed by an accident and the widow appeals to the Colonel, but he refuses to assist her. After many years of hard struggle the widow dies, leaving Lovey Mary, a girl of fourteen, to the care of a sister, her only relative, who is married to a circus proprietor, a man of brutal temper. She gives to her sister her marriage certificate and Lovey Mary's birth certificate, and to Lovey Mary a locket containing the portraits of herself and husband. Mr. and Mrs. Wiggs have married and have five children. Owing to a strike at the works where Wiggs is employed they are suffering great hardships. The works are controlled by a millionaire politician, Murphy. His stepson, Bob, manager of the works, is in sympathy with the strikers, being especially interested in the Wiggs family, whom he helps. Murphy's nephew, Stephen, is extremely jealous of Bob and spies upon him. Stephen tells Murphy that Bob is helping the strikers and is the cause of his being discharged. Through the kindness of an old friend Bob eventually becomes a successful attorney. Mr. Wiggs determines to go to another town in search of work. He there meets Lovey Mary's uncle, the circus proprietor, and is engaged by him as ringmaster. Mrs. Wiggs, deserted by her husband, has a terrible struggle with poverty.…
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Details
- Director
- Harold Entwistle
- Running time
- 79 minutes
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 355
Cast & crew
- Harold Entwistle Director
Beatriz Michelena- Blanche Chapman
Andrew Robson