Making Auntie Welcome

Making Auntie Welcome (1914)

Jack pretends to be crazy to get his aunt to cut her visit short. The maid sees him practicing his 'insanity' and thinks he's trying to kill his wife.

Date of release
1914-08-22
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Will Louis

Casting

Interesting facts

Making Auntie Welcome is a 1914 American silent comedy film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company and featuring Vincent DePascale, Virginia Capen, Eva Bell, and Oliver Hardy.

Production and reception

Making Auntie Welcome was filmed in Jacksonville, Florida, at the Jacksonville unit of the Lubin Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, under the general supervision of Arthur Hotaling. The film was a short split-reel comedy, lasting approximately 7 minutes, and sharing a single reel of film with a second, unrelated comedy, Sometimes It Works, starring Raymond McKee and Frances Ne Moyer. The two comedies were both written by Epes W.

The film received positive reviews in the trade papers. Moving Picture World wrote "E. W. Sargent is responsible for this also and Will Louis was brave enough to direct it. The plot is a good one for a comedy of this nature.... A very funny comedy." The New York Dramatic Mirror described it as "burlesque pure, but not simple".

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