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Over the Crib (1913)
Short | Drama, Short

Over the Crib (1913)

Short | Drama, Short

Jerry Smithson is a lonely bachelor with a great and deep love for children. In desperation, and to smother the heartache, he goes to the asylum, where he makes dally pilgrimages to watch the youngsters at play. About the same time a Mrs. ...See moreJerry Smithson is a lonely bachelor with a great and deep love for children. In desperation, and to smother the heartache, he goes to the asylum, where he makes dally pilgrimages to watch the youngsters at play. About the same time a Mrs. Wendell, deserted by her husband, and almost destitute, takes her child to the asylum in the hope that it may be adopted by a family that will give it the care and love it needs. Smithson is the man that adopts the child, and Dorothy soon reigns complete mistress of the lonely bachelor's heart and home. Finding he, in his awkward, ignorant way, is unable to properly take care of her, he advertises for a day nurse, and Ethel Langdon, suffering from an equal amount of child hunger, applies for the position and gets it. The child, Dorothy, takes to Ethel at once and gradually Smithson finds himself in love with his adopted child's nurse. The culmination of their romance comes when Dorothy, playing a kissing game with the two, orders Smithson to kiss "nursie," and the door to a happy future is opened to both. They are married and very happy. Mrs. Wendell, however, finds herself in dire straits, and just about the time she thinks she can bear the fight no longer, her husband returns, penitent and rich. She forgives him and then he learns of the child's being sent to the asylum to be adopted. They go to the asylum and their terrible grief has its effect upon the authorities, and they let them have the child's address. Smithson breaks down under their plea, but Ethel realizes, great as her own misery is, that the real parents have a greater right than they to Dorothy. Dorothy is taken to her parents' home and Smithson alone gives way to his grief. Ethel, at the side of the empty crib, suffers cruelly at its emptiness and weeps over it. Then her sorrow changes gradually to another realization, and hurriedly she gets out some tiny baby clothes from her work basket, and at the side of the crib, with the tiny garments held tight to her breast, she smiles into a future brighter and fuller than even the wonderfully happy past has been. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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3 cast members

Name	Known for
Maidel Turner Ethel Langdon Ethel Langdon See fewer	State of the Union (1948)
Lionel Adams Jerry Smithson Jerry Smithson See fewer	Janice Meredith (1924)
Henrietta O'Beck Dorothy - the Child Dorothy - the Child See fewer	Just Pretending (1912)