Our Mrs. McChesney
Cast & Crew
Ralph W. Ince
Ethel Barrymore
Huntley Gordon
Wilfred Lytell
Lucille Lee Stewart
John Daly Murphy
Film Details
Synopsis
Mrs. Emma McChesney is a determined and successful traveling saleswoman for T. A. Buck's Featherbloom Petticoat Company. When Buck dies and his son, T. A. Buck, Jr., takes charge, the company suffers and Emma nearly accepts a job offer from Buck's rival, Abel Fromkin. On her last sales trip, however, she learns that her son Jack has married chorus girl Vera Sherwood, and because Buck demonstrates such concern for the boy, Emma decides to remain with him. Distraught that Jack has married so young, Emma sends the bride away to boarding school while Jack takes a job with the company. Later Emma discovers that the firm is approaching bankruptcy, so she invents a new skirt which, as modeled by Vera and promoted by Jack, rocks the fashion world and saves Buck's company. Having fallen in love with Emma, Buck proposes and she accepts.
Director
Ralph W. Ince
Cast
Ethel Barrymore
Huntley Gordon
Wilfred Lytell
Lucille Lee Stewart
John Daly Murphy
Walter Percival
William H. St. James
Ricca Allen
George Trimble
Sammy Cooper
Fred Walters
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Notes
The stage play was based on Edna Ferber's "Emma McChesney" stories, published in The Saturday Evening Post, and novels, published around 1912. Some reviews give a release date of August 18, 1918.
