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Oh, What a Boob!
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Dell Henderson
Cast: Grace Lewis [Miss Lavinia Banks], Edward Dillon [the boy], Gus Pixley [the tramp], Florence Lee [Lavinia’s sister], William Beaudine [a bystander], William A. Carroll [a bystander]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Austin F. Roberts. Assistant director, William Beaudine. / Released 10 February 1913; in a split-reel with The Press Gang (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] From The Moving Picture World]? Miss Lavinia Binks has the misfortune of being loved by a fellow who is the limit for bashfulness. She tries to encourage him, but he thinks she is poking fun at him. The result is two lovelorn souls who misunderstand each other. In desperation the shy swain determines to end it all by suicide. Here fate takes a hand and “they live happy ever after.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 October 2023.
References: Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.
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