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  • A Red Hot Courtship (1912)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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A Red Hot Courtship (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short
Nellie Nugent, an attractive young actress, is stranded in a small, one-night stand. She remains at the boarding house while her husband goes to New York. Nellie makes a hit among the rubes. Hoyt Heffoner and Folsom Barrymore, two village ...See moreNellie Nugent, an attractive young actress, is stranded in a small, one-night stand. She remains at the boarding house while her husband goes to New York. Nellie makes a hit among the rubes. Hoyt Heffoner and Folsom Barrymore, two village dandies, both forsake their sweethearts, who also board at Mrs. Heffoner's. Then they start an ardent courtship for Nellie. After many love situations, Folsom is driven to desperation. He thinks of some way to eliminate his rival. He passes a drug store, enters and asks the clerk for two pills, one deadly poison, the other harmless. The drug clerk sizes up Folsom as a "bug," but to humor him, gives him two pills. Both are red-pepper. At the boarding house he bursts into Hoyt's room. "Choose one of these," he commands, holding out the box to Hoyt, who is too frightened to refuse. He swallows one pill, Folsom swallows the other. Hoyt almost immediately begins to scream with pain. Folsom laughs. Then he too is convulsed with pain. Both run madly through the door. Outside in the yard they encounter the hired man with two buckets of water. They grab these, drink part of them. Not having yet quenched the horrible fire inside, they run madly to the front yard. Here they beg the man who is sprinkling the lawn to soak them with water. They feel no better. They then rush wildly upstairs into the bathroom. One of the boarders, peering into an upper shelf, is standing on the edge of the tub. In their mad rush to plunge into the water, Hoyt and Folsom upset the balance of the third man, and he too splashes into the tub. The water runs over and trickles down into the dining room below, deluging the table where the boarders are eating, with the exception of Nellie, who, in her bedroom, has just received a wire from hubby saying he will arrive that morning for her. She starts to pack up. The water causes a panic among the boarders. Headed by the landlady they rush upstairs and put Hoyt and Folsom to flight. While they are upstairs, Nellie's husband arrives, meets Nellie, and they hurry from the house to catch the train. In the front yard they meet Hoyt and Folsom. Then the bucolic swains discover to their intense chagrin that Nellie is married. They collapse and their two sweethearts, whom they had forsaken, agree to take them back. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Sep 11, 1912
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Sep 11, 1912 (United States)

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Jerold T. Hevener's primary photo
Jerold T. Hevener
Hoyt Heffoner Hoyt Heffoner   See fewer
The Female Detective (1913)
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Eleanor Caines
Nellie Nugent Nellie Nugent   See fewer
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Walter Stull
Folsom Barrymore Folsom Barrymore   See fewer
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