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Seven Days (1914)
Short | Short, Comedy

Seven Days (1914)

Short | Short, Comedy

In the opening scene Bella Wilson is shown waiting impatiently for her husband Jim, who is late home to dinner as usual, having tarried with his friend Dallas Brown and Tom Harbison. When he does get home, Bella jumps on him, causing a ...See moreIn the opening scene Bella Wilson is shown waiting impatiently for her husband Jim, who is late home to dinner as usual, having tarried with his friend Dallas Brown and Tom Harbison. When he does get home, Bella jumps on him, causing a quarrel that results in her leaving the house. At the end of a month Jim is notified that Bella has been granted a divorce in Reno. He is very blue when he receives the news, and his friends Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Brown, Tom Harbison, and Kit McNair, try to cheer him up. Tom and Kit are in love with each other. Tom jokes about the divorce, which Jim resents. Kit takes Jim's part, and she and Tom quarrel. He leaves in a rage, and on returning to his home resolves to go abroad for a year. A year later Jim gives a dinner on the anniversary of his divorce. His cook Charlotte informs him that his Japanese butler Talka is ill, and when he goes to Talka's room, a burglar enters. On Jim's return the burglar, to avoid being detected, hides behind a screen. Talka is taken to the hospital, and Charlotte tells this to her beau Flannigan, a cop. The other servants prepare to leave the house because they think Talka has smallpox; Charlotte departs with them. Flannigan remains in the kitchen to finish his smoke. Jim wants Kit to marry him, but she asks him to wait. Anne has been studying spiritualism and is convinced she is a wonderful medium. Her belief is augmented by two or three cocktails. Jim receives a telegram from his Aunt Selina advising him that she is coming to see him. Jim is afraid that if his Aunt finds that he is divorced from Bella she will cut him out of her will. He explains this to his friends and asks Anne to pose as his wife during his Aunt's short stay. Anne refuses, but Kit volunteers to play the part. Jim with help of his friends prepares for Aunt Selina's arrival. They remove such things in the room as might meet with her disapproval, throwing them over the screen where the burglar is concealed, much to his discomfiture. Aunt Selina arrives and Kit is introduced as Jim's wife. Bella, Jim's divorced wife, having regretted her hasty action, calls under pretense of seeing Charlotte, the cook. She meets Anne, who sends her to the kitchen. The burglar accidentally moves the screen, which causes Anne to believe more firmly than ever in her power as a medium, Tom arrives and meets Kit, who is presented to him as Jim's wife. The Board of Health, having diagnosed Talka's illness as smallpox, order the house quarantined and forbid any of the occupants to leave. Guards are placed outside the house to enforce the quarantine. Bella, desirous of keeping her presence in the house unknown to Jim, spends the night in the kitchen. Early the next morning Aunt Selina wakens Jim and Kit, reminding them of their duties under the circumstances. When Kit goes to the kitchen she discovers Bella, who explains that she is there to see the cook. To prevent Jim seeing her, Bella hides in the cellar and accidentally falls into the coal bin. Jim discovers her and she explains her presence to him also as being the result of a call on the cook. The burglar, who is roaming all over the house, gets into Anne's bedroom by mistake and in crawling under the bed he accidentally pulls the coverlet off her and retreats from the room on hands and knees, taking the coverlet with him. Anne, who is only half awake, is still further convinced by this incident of the presence of spirits in the house. Dal finds Aunt Selina's bottle of Pomona, a patent medicine of which she is very fond, and samples it. He leaves it where the burglar finds it and carries it off. Aunt Selina misses the bottle and has the whole house searching for it. This necessitates the burglar making quick changes in his hiding places and in doing so be makes considerable noise which Anne tries to convince Flannigan is spirit manifestations. Bella is introduced to Aunt Selina and a friend of the cook's. Aunt Selina decides that in the absence of servants, each must do their share of the housework, and they draw lots. Kit draws "Cook;" Anne, '"Butler;" Dal, "Laundress;" Jim, "Scullery Maid and Chambermaid;" Harbison, "Assistant Cook and Plumber;" Flannigan, "Ladies' Maid;" Selina, "Barber;" and Bella, "Furnace." Bella and Tom start building a furnace fire. Bella believes Jim is still in love with her, and to arouse her jealousy she persuades Tom to pretend they are engaged, which he does much to the annoyance of Jim and Kit, who are making a vain attempt to prepare breakfast. Flannigan, always on the alert, hears the burglar again and tries to discover the source of the noise. He is unsuccessful as the burglar hides in the dumbwaiter and as Flannigan runs upstairs he lowers himself in the dumbwaiter, and when Flannigan rushes downstairs he pulls himself up. Dal outlines to the others a plan of escape from the house which is frustrated by the guards. Aunt Selina is discovered missing and they all hope she has escaped, but much to their disgust she is captured by the guards and returned to the house through the window. The seventh day of the quarantine finds all the occupants of the Wilson house, with the exception of Aunt Selina, in an extremely nervous and upset condition. To add to their discomfitures they have all been forcibly vaccinated with the exception of the burglar, whose presence in the house has not been discovered. Flannigan' s food is appropriated by the burglar when his back is turned. Aunt Selina compels Flannigan to scrub the roof and Bella to dress her hair. The bottle of Pomona is again removed by the burglar, and this time Flannigan is punished for stealing it. Bella and Tom keep up their pretense of being engaged and complain that the quarantine prevents their being married. Dal suggests they be married by telephone. Tom, frightened at this idea, tells Dal the 'phone is broken. Dal endeavors to repair it, but Tom prevents him by throwing it down the chimney, where the burglar is at the moment concealed. Anne discovers the 'phone is missing and hearing the burglar sneeze, believes the spirits are in attendance. She drops the clothes line down the chimney and commands the spirits to give her a sign. She is delighted on pulling the rope up to find the missing 'phone which the burglar has tied on the line. Kit attempts to cut the 'phone wire to prevent Tom from marrying Bella. She is discovered by Tom, who is amazed to see the 'phone, as he tells Kit he threw it down the chimney. Kit explains to Tom that she is not Jim's wife and they embrace. Aunt Selina finds them in each other's arms and is horrified as she naturally believes Kit is her nephew's wife. Jim also wishing to prevent Bella from marrying Tom, tries his hand at putting the telephone out of business. Bella discovers him, which leads to explanations, and they are discovered embracing by Aunt Selina, who refuses to listen to them. The presence of the burglar is discovered, and through him Aunt Selina learns the true state of affairs. The Board of Health announced that the Talka has not had the smallpox after all, and the quarantine is lifted. Jim and Bella are forgiven by Aunt Selina and all are happy, including the burglar, who makes his escape. Thus was a week passed at the James Wilson residence. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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10 cast members

Name	Known for
John T. Dillon Jim Wilson (as Jack Dillon) Jim Wilson (as Jack Dillon) See fewer	A Flash of Light (1910)
Louise Orth Bella Wilson Bella Wilson See fewer	Three Black Eyes (1919)
Charles Hill Mailes Flannagan Flannagan See fewer	The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Dave Morris The Burglar The Burglar See fewer	Juno and the Paycock (1929)
Florence Lee Kit McNair Kit McNair See fewer	A Mixed Affair (1912)
Jack Pickford The Japanese Servant The Japanese Servant See fewer	Brown of Harvard (1926)
Walter Miller Dal Brown Dal Brown See fewer	King of the Wild (1931)
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Hayward Mack Actor Actor See fewer	Oliver Twist, Jr. (1921)
Millicent Evans Actress Actress See fewer	The Woman in Black (I) (1914)