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Miriam Nesbitt (left), Ethel Browning and Marc McDermott.
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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A Suffragette
in Spite of Himself
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Ashley Miller
Cast: Marc McDermott [the gentleman], Miriam Nesbitt [the lady], Ethel Browning [the maid]
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Bannister Merwin. / Released 30 October 1912; in a split-reel with Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? How a thoroughly respectable British householder, bitterly opposed to woman’s suffrage, becomes apparently a violent advocate of the cause, the difficulties this gets him into finally leading to his arrest, his forcible rescue by a band of suffragettes who believe him their champion, his final arrival home in a torn and dilapidated condition before his astonished wife and, above all, how the fatal “votes for women” confronts him at the end. All these make the fun fast and furious.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 October 2023.
References: Film viewing : Sloan-Loud pp. 98j, 98k, 105, 151 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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