Dick Potter’s Wife (1914)

movie

Country: N/A
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1914-09-12
Director: Ashley Miller
Writers: Frank Hart
Language: None | English
Stars: Herbert Prior , Gertrude McCoy , Shirley Mason , Mathilde Baring
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Dick Potter's Wife , Dick Potter's Wife (United States of America)
Plot: Dick Potter's wife makes him unhappy with her continual worries. Without knowing it, she nags the poor man almost to distraction over petty trifles. When he tries to smoke, she makes him uncomfortable by opening the window. If he puts his feet on a chair, she makes him still more uncomfortable by putting a piece of paper under them. Finally Potter, aroused to a state of indignation, tells her that her worrying is making lines on her face. Immediately afterwards he leaves home and spends his next few evenings at the club. Mrs. Potter, at first deeply hurt by her husband's charge, finally grows alarmed. Fearing that she is growing old, and that she will lose Potter's love, she goes to an old gypsy and buys a philter guaranteed to make her young. She brings the philter home, but drinks too much of it, and instead of becoming five or six years younger, becomes a little girl. Potter returns and finds the little girl. He naturally laughs at her repeated declarations that she is his wife, and hires a governess to look after her. Finding his wife's wedding ring on the floor where it had dropped during the strange transformation, he jumps at the conclusion that she has deserted him. As the days go by the metamorphosed Mrs. Potter suffers terribly in her impossible situation. Affairs reach a climax when she discovers that the designing governess is attempting to win her husband's love. Escaping from the house, she seeks out the gypsy again, and tells her the terrible result which attended the drinking of the potion. The gypsy gives the child another philter which restores her to her former condition, and the rehabilitated Mrs. Potter triumphantly returns to meet her enemy, the governess, on her own terms, and to drive her, in utter defeat, from the affections of Dick Potter. And now Dick Potter can smoke whenever and wherever he wants to.
IMDB:tt1247180