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When a Man’s Fickle
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Horace Davey
Cast: Neal Burns [Phil], Billie Rhodes [Billie], Dolly Ohnet [Dolly], Gus Alexander
Nestor Film Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / From a [?] screen story? by L.J. Pouliot. / © 27 September 1915. Released 4 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Phil, a fickle flirt, becomes engaged to Jane and one day goes into the office to call her up. Here he sees the picture of a pretty girl and decides to make her acquaintance. He tells Jane that he will be up to see her that night and goes out in quest of the picture girl. Wandering through the park he sees a girl feeding swans and “falls for her,” forgetting his quest. They become so chummy that Phil proposes and the girl tells him to call that night to meet her “folks.” They kiss and part and Dolly hastens home to break the news. Phil calls up his first love and tells her it is impossible for him to come to see her that night, as he is busy. That night Phil calls to ask for Dolly, but finds he has lost her address. He knocks at the first convenient door. The mother opens and he blurts out his mission, telling her he wants her daughter. This suits mother, so she invites him in and he is bewildered to find a new girl, Billie, instead of Dolly. But he has a case of love at first sight, for Billie is a “pippin.” After a short stay he leaves and forgets all about Dolly. But on falling down the steps he lands at the door of her apartment. She and her mother rush out and he is taken in. After being forced to become engaged to the girl, he leaves shortly thereafter. Billie asks Phil for dinner the next night and invites Dolly and family to come up and see the decorations and the two girls then tell of being engaged to the “sweetest man in the world,” not knowing it to be the same man. Dolly and family then leave, promising to return a little later. Phil arrives and they have a very pleasant time, until there is a knock at the door and Dolly comes into meet Billie’s beau. Phil sees them, and escapes down the fire escape, only to be seen by Dolly, who had left Billie’s flat. He pretends he was trying to scare her and enters the room. Soon there is a jolly time in progress. Billie’s family hear the music and decide to visit. When Phil sees his latest fiancée come in he is in despair. He tries to escape, but the families have caught on to his tricks and the two fathers capture him. When the fathers, mothers and daughters finish with Phil, he lands dejectedly at the bottom of the stairs, with all the fickleness knocked out of him.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 15 November 2022.
References: Braff-Universal n. 8901; Tarbox-Lost p. 237 : Website-IMDb.
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