Father’s Hot Toddy (1912)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short
Release: 1912-10-17
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: None | English
Stars: Robert McWade Sr. , Norma Talmadge , Rosemary Theby , Julia Swayne Gordon , Kate Price
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Father's Hot Toddy , Father's Hot Toddy (United States of America)
Plot: Tired of living alone with his two motherless daughters. Jones decides to take unto himself a wife. She is a charming woman and his daughters readily accept her as their stepmother. A few months later he is seized with a violent attack of grippe. He brings home a bottle of whiskey and asks his wife to prepare a hot toddy for him. She is a teetotaler and advises him to take chamomile tea and a foot bath He does not want to make known his fondness for toddy and agrees to take her remedies. She makes the tea and gets ready the boiling water. His daughter, knowing his liking for his toddy, empties the tea out of the jug and fills it with whiskey. Their stepmother, not knowing what has been done, gives her husband a liberal potion, which he drinks with a great deal of relish, following it with one or two more. After a while, he feels quite hilarious and acts so funny his wife does not know what to make of it. The girls, to shield their daddy, say he is delirious. He is put to bed and is soon lost in slumberland. Next day, he feels so much improved that he goes to business and in the evening on his return home, brings a beautiful bouquet of flowers for his wife and a box of candies for the girls, in appreciation for the kind services they have rendered and the cure they have effected.
IMDB:tt0367724