Only in the Way (1911)

Interesting facts

Only in the Way is a 1911 American silent short drama film produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film focuses on a grandmother who seeks the support of her only son and makes herself comfortable in his house. The grandmother is welcomed and befriended by Marie, her crippled granddaughter. The son's wife cannot bear to live with her mother-in-law and delivers an ultimatum to her husband: "Either your mother or I must leave this house!" The husband decides to put his mother in an old folks' home and the wife informs her she is to leave immediately. Little Marie is upset that her grandmother has to leave because she was "only in the way" and decides that as a cripple, so was she.

Production

Little is known about the production or cast of the film despite its surviving status. The only known credit cited by Q. David Bowers is that of Marie Eline cast in the role of Marie. The director, scenario writer and cameraman are also unknown. Thanhouser Company Film Preservation states that the dramatic theme of the film was "family disharmony" and it took the expected sentimental approach for the era.

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