A Believer in Dreams (1914)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1914-12-04
Director: Joseph W. Smiley
Writers: George Terwilliger
Language: None | English
Stars: Ormi Hawley , Edward Peil Sr. , Richard Morris
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: A Believer in Dreams (United States of America) , A Believer in Dreams
Plot: Helen is a wealthy society bud who, with her mother, goes to a reception to hear a famous singer, Bruce McCarroll. She is in the conservatory waiting for her admirer. Philip, to bring her her fan while Bruce is singing. She becomes fascinated and infatuated with the singer and his voice. Philip returns, cannot resist her charms and takes her in his arms. Bruce has finished his song and, with his arms full of roses showered upon him by the guests, enters the conservatory in time to see Helen struggling in Philip's arms. He parts them. Helen sends Philip on his way unforgiven and turns to face Bruce. He gives her his flowers and gallantly kisses her hand and leaves. Helen's heart is much disturbed, and that evening, alone in her room awaiting her maid, she drops off into a doze and imagines herself back in the swashbuckling age in a garden full of masked revelers. A troubadour, also masked is singing and making a great hit, especially with Helen. Helen is seized by one of the masked men and is struggling against his kisses when the troubadour saves her and the other man leaves. As did Bruce in the conservatory this troubadour fills her arms with flowers and she awakens as he is kissing her hand. Feeling sure that the dream portends Bruce, she writes him to call. He does and, as did the troubadour, plays a guitar and sings a love song to her. She is half hypnotized into a greater infatuation for him when Philip calls again to beg forgiveness. Helen refuses forgiveness and sends him away. Bruce seizes his opportunity and she is engaged before she realizes it. On her marriage day Bruce is trying his best to get rid of an old flame, one of the many he has affairs with, and is therefore delayed. Helen is overcome by the heat and odors from the flowers and is promptly transported back (dissolve as before) to the garden and the scene where she left off. When the troubadour raises his head from her hand she begs him to unmask and behold it is Philip, not Bruce. Bruce is seen to be the other man when he unmasks in another spot of the garden and Helen willingly yields herself to Philip's arms. She comes to herself feeling his kisses on her lips as Bruce enters and is greeted by the assembled folks. Helen, dazed, realized that she is about to marry the wrong man and in a fit of hysterics refuses to have anything more to do with him and shows him the door. Bruce smiles sneeringly and exits. Then she phones to Philip. He comes at her bidding, is asked to tell her all over again that he still loves her and forgives her treatment of him and is proclaimed before them all as the man she wants to marry. Philip is not slow in seizing his opportunity and the scene fades away with the ceremony.
IMDB:tt1268862