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The Things in the Bottom Drawer (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

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The Things in the Bottom Drawer (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Mary, the daughter of the wealthy Mrs. Van Stark, married against her mother's wishes. As the story opens, the young couple are found in humble quarters with a sick child upon their hands. Their physician informs them that the baby's life ...See moreMary, the daughter of the wealthy Mrs. Van Stark, married against her mother's wishes. As the story opens, the young couple are found in humble quarters with a sick child upon their hands. Their physician informs them that the baby's life cannot be saved without an expensive operation. As they have no money, Mary decides to visit her mother and pleads with her to assist them. Mrs. Van Stark absolutely refuses to assist the girl unless she parts from her worthless husband and returns home. This Mary will not do and her mother thereupon refuses to give her aid. The child dies and its tiny clothes are placed in the bottom drawer of their humble little bureau. John, her husband, endeavors to obtain employment, but is unsuccessful. He is tempted to drink and falls. This leads to a separation and Mary returns to her mother who endeavors to interest her in Alberts, a foppish society man, really her own ally in connection with crooked society bridge games. Mary's husband works hard and becomes successful. Later he joins a fashionable club. The man Mary's mother has chosen as her future husband meets him at the club and twits him with the threatened divorce proceedings, and boasts that he is to be the next one to possess Mary's heart. John is angered and knocks Alberts down. Mary thinks of the past and goes back to her humble little home. As she sits in the moonlight fondling her baby's clothes in the bottom drawer, her husband, John, who also has been thinking of the past, enters. He finds her crying over the clothes of her dead child. He calls to her softly and Mary casts herself into his open arms. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Allan Forrest John - the Husband John - the Husband See fewer	Pampered Youth (1925)
Helene Rosson Mary - the Wife Mary - the Wife See fewer	April (1916)
Albert MacQuarrie Albert Albert See fewer	The Viking (1928)
Jean Hathaway Mrs. Van Stark - Mary's Mother Mrs. Van Stark - Mary's Mother See fewer	The Master Key (1914)