When Doctors Disagree
Cast & Crew
Victor L. Schertzinger
Mabel Normand
Walter Hiers
George Nichols
Fritzie Ridgeway
Alec B. Francis
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Synopsis
During the May Day celebration at Ferryville, Millie Martin, whose stingy father will not buy her proper clothes, watches as Violet Henry, the daughter of the town's richest man, is pushed into a stagnant pool by the village bolshevik. The story amuses Millie's father, who gives her a dollar, with which she buys beauty cream in preparation for her first railway journey. On the train, Millie meets John Turner, a carpet layer disguised as a doctor. Earlier, John fought a man caught cheating at poker. He took his uncle's railway ticket and doctor's bag when he thought the cheater was killed. After Millie feigns a toothache to get John's attention, her father, to avoid a doctor's bill, gives her chewing tobacco as a remedy. When she swallows it, and John orders an operation, the train stops at a nearby sanitarium. After Millie escapes, and John finds her in a room with a baby, they both explain. John is mistaken for a burglar, and after his uncle arrives to straighten matters out, John and Millie are free to pursue romance.
Director
Victor L. Schertzinger
Cast
Mabel Normand
Walter Hiers
George Nichols
Fritzie Ridgeway
Alec B. Francis
William Buckley
James Gordon
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Notes
This was Victor L. Schertzinger's first film directed at Goldwyn Pictures Corp. Scenes of the film were shot on the grounds of the Whittier State Reform School in Whittier, CA, and in the woods of the San Bernadino mountains. The film had unannounced pre-release showings in Pasadena and Harlem.
