When Doctors Disagree
| When Doctors Disagree | |
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| File:Mabel Normand in When Doctors Disagree.jpg 1919 advertisement | |
| Directed by | Victor Schertzinger |
| Screenplay by | Anna F. Briand |
| Starring | Mabel Normand |
| Cinematography | Percy Hilburn (French) |
| Distributed by | Goldwyn Pictures Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
When Doctors Disagree is a 1919 silent comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger, written by Anna F. Briand, photographed by Percy Hilburn, and starring Mabel Normand. The movie was released by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation with a running time of 50 minutes. A print of the film survives in the Cinémathèque Royale film archive.[1]
Plot
[edit | edit source]As described in a film magazine,[2] Violet Henny (Ridgeway), the village miser's haughty daughter, as Queen of the May will not admit Millie Martin (Normand), the ragged daughter of old man David Martin, to her May Pole party, Millie breaks up the party. The next day she accompanies her father on the train to a nearby town to pay off the mortgage. While on the train she falls in love with chubby John Turner (Hiers), a young man who believes that he has committed a murder and is fleeing disguised as his uncle, who is a noted surgeon. Millie feigns a serious illness and the supposed doctor recommends an immediate operation, hoping to get the young woman off the train at the next town. He succeeds, but is also detrained to assist in the operation. After numerous remarkable incidents at the small town hospital, the couple are revealed as engaged.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Mabel Normand as Millie Martin
- Walter Hiers as John Turner
- George Nichols as David Martin
- Fritzi Ridgeway as Violet Henny
- Alec B. Francis as Dr. Harris, Sr.
- William Buckley as Dr. Harris, Jr.
- James Gordon
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: When Doctors Disagree at silentera.com
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External links
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- When Doctors Disagree at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- When Doctors Disagree at Turner Classic Movies
- When Doctors Disagree Archived January 25, 2021, at the Wayback Machine at Looking-for-Mabel
- 1919 films
- 1919 comedy films
- 1919 short films
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent comedy short films
- English-language comedy short films
- Films directed by Victor Schertzinger
- Goldwyn Pictures films
- Surviving American silent films
- 1910s comedy short film stubs