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Released
1914 · FILM

Won in a Closet

Directed by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
14 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Moving Picture World dismissed the film as “a nonsense number,” but *Won in a Closet*, Normand's second film as director, demonstrates her growing talent. In the film, Mabel's father, a country constable, becomes infatuated with the mother of the boy Mabel considers “her ideal.” The couple's romance is first interrupted by two mischievous rivals and later by the mistaken belief that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother's house. In truth, the mother herself hides in the closet to avoid the constable's advances.

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Principal cast & crew: 12

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

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Scored by Michael Mortilla

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