Every Girl's Dream (1917) MILLARDE-2010 Dan Mason and June Caprice EVERY GIRL'S DREAM (Five Parts -- Aug. 25). The cast: Gretchen (June Caprice); Jane Cummings (Kittens Reichert); Carl (Harry Hilliard); Hulda (Margaret Fielding); Mrs. Van Larn, Gretchen's mother (Marcia Harris); Mynher De Haas (Dan Mason). Scenario by Adrian Johnson. Directed by Harry Millarde. Olenberg, a town in Holland, is famed for its pretty girls. One of these is Gretchen, who lives with her foster mother, Mrs. Van Lora. Gretchen is beloved by everyone. Carl, a whoodchopper, particularly loves Gretchen. He, too, is a foster child. Mynher De Haas, the town lawyer and capitalist, loves Gretchen and despite his fifty years cannot understand why the girl will not consider him as a suitor. Mrs. Van Lorn prefers the lawyer. Incidentally the lawyer holds a mortgage on the Van Lorn homestead. But Hulda, a dark beauty, is determined Gretchen will not have Carl. Every time she finds them together she notifies Mrs. Van Lorn who drags Gretchen away and leaves Carl and Hulda. One day De Haas comes to pop the question. As he is making a fervent plea a friend fastenes a fishhook to his wig. When he gets up off goes his wig. Gretchen laughs heartily. Mynher leaves in a rage. Determined to make the Van Lorn family pay for the insult, helooks for the mortgage in his pocket. It's not there. He has Gretchen arrested as the thief. At the same time Carl is in the woods. A carriage approaches. On nearing Carl it stops and a liveried attendant gets out. Noticing a birth mark like a fleur-de-lys on Carl's back he calls another attendant, seizes the youth and thros him into the carriage. They drive off. The next day finds Gretchen on her way to the stocks, to pay for her theft. Mynher is following her. Just as the girl is to be locked in the lawyer finds the mortgage. He asks that Gretchen be freed. When the populace learns of his mastake they put him in the stocks, and free Gretchen. That evening a courier enters the town seeking a lost princess. The lucky girl has among her trinkets a beautiful locket. Hulda finds the locket in Gretchen's trunk. Hulda is proclaimed the princess. In a carriage in the square, she is told, is the prince she is to marry. The carriage door opens and out steps an old, wrinkled man. Hulda runs off, crying she isn't the princess, that Gretchen is the girl and that she stole the locket. Gretchen is placed on the throne. But the old man wasn't the prince. The prince, no other than Carl, comes from the coach and sits beside Gretchen. After the town's celebration a messenger announces that Carl's father has died and Carl is king. While the people hail him, Carl gathers Gretchen into his arms and asks her to be his queen. Then Gretchen awakes and finds it was only "Every Girl's Dream". -- Moving Picture World, September 8, 1917, pp. 1581-1582 with June Caprice, Kittens Reichert, and Harry Hilliard. Directed by Harry Millarde. Fox. More Information on this film...                                      This work (Every Girl's Dream (1917), by Fox), identified by Bruce Calvert, is free of known copyright restrictions. Books (none) Last Modified November 23, 2024