Mickey (1918 film)
MABEL NORMAND
IN
"MICKEY"
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Mickey |
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The Tomboy Mine hasn't paid for years--and if it hadn't been for Mickey, Joe would have pulled up stakes long ago.
The only mother Mickey ever knew
--Minnie, Joe's housekeeper.
"If y' can find my hat, fetch it down ter the shaft."
Mickey.
"Minnie, you've been drinkin' again."
"See them gray hairs? You give me them!"
Dear Joe,
They tell me I can't live much longer, and as your partner and old friend, I'm asking you to take my little girl and care for her after I'm gone. I know you'll do the right thing by her if the mine should ever pay. You know where her aunt, Mrs. Drake, is in New York, but these people never cared much, that is, they never seemed to be very pleased [...]
Dear Mrs. Drake-
I hav took care er your niece sense her father died an I have looked after her gold mine. Its time she had sum women fokes arown her an I wisht you cud take her awhil, bein as you're her onli relation.
Joe Meadows.
Mrs. Geoffrey Drake, desperately striving to maintain a million dollar front.
Her daughter Elsie--mamma's lone trump in the matrimonial game.
Herbert Thornhill, mine owner, whose name spells Hope to Mrs. Drake.
"Get that ring on your finger to-night!"
Reggie Drake, whose love for fast horses has sadly crimped the family funds.
WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAM
FEATHER RIVER CAL
JUNE 15 1917
HERBERT THORNHILL
LIBERTY BLDG
NEW YORK CITY
TROUBLE OVER BOUNDARY LINE LOOKS
SERIOUS YOU SHOULD BE ON GROUND AT ONCE
TITLE TO ENTIRE MINE THREATENED
HAYES MGR
10 AM
Fly time.
"--an when you git t'town, git me some Granger Twist."
Five o'clock stage.
NO DOGS
ALLOWED
"He bit him, so I'll have to shoot him."
KEEP
OUT
"Keep yo' eye peeled, pardner--there's a thief loose in town."
"It ain't me--it's my dog they want."
"What might yer business be?"
"I am a miner."
Boundary lines--
--and curves.
"Business takes me to the mountains for about a week, but after that--"
After a night of rosy dreams.
Even rosiest dreams must end.
Dear Mr. Meadows,
We shall be delighted to have my dear niece as one of the family-- I long to see her.
Do send her to me at once, won't you?
Our home is always open to her and we shall consider it not only a pleasure but a great [...]
"Yo' auntie'll learn yer ter be a lady, Mickey."
5 AM
ARRIVES
5 PM
The doors of another world.
Mickey when she was 2 years old
"Didn't she even know where she was going?"
"I'll be a mother to her."
"I'd a' liked mighty ter hev dressed her up some--"
"--but the mine ain't paid for nigh on twenty years."
Mrs. Drake being disappointed in Mickey's mine orders her put to work.
The next day.
Back to the social whirl.
When the cat's away--
At last.
"She's my aunt--but she's got no use for me 'cause my mine's a fliver."
"My niece--who has just arrived from the West."
Back to the mines.
WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAM
MICKEY
C/O MRS GEOFFREY DRAKE
GREAT NECK LONG ISLAND
WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAM
FEATHER RIVER CAL
AUG 16 1917
MICKEY
CARE MRS GEOFFREY DRAKE
GREAT NECK LONG ISLAND
STRUCK BIGGEST VEIN EVER KNOWN IN
THESE PARTS YOU ARE WORTH A MILLION
HURRAY
JOE
1:00 PM
Tom Rawlings--attorney and intimate friend of Thornhill.
"She's wonderful, Tom! I never expected to see her again--and now I've proposed to Elsie Drake I'm in the devil of a mess!"
"Cheer up, old man, you haven't actually been sentenced yet!"
"I'm glad you children are getting on so well."
"You fool! Don't make her hate you--try to make her love you."
Joyless wedding plans.
WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAM
FEATHER RIVER CAL
AUG 25 1917
HERBERT THORNHILL
CARE THOS RAWLINGS ATTY
LIBERTY BLDG NEW YORK
COURT DECIDES YOUR TITLE INVALID USED
UP ALL AVAILABLE MONEY ORE EXTRACTED BY YOU
MUST BE REPLACED AMOUNT TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
ON CRIMINAL PROSECUTION STARTED AGAINST YOU
JOHN HENDERSON SUPT
4:00 PM
After the blow had fallen.
My dear Herbert,
I have been thinking it all over very seriously and I feel that we are making a mistake.—There are many reasons--you know them better, perhaps, than I do. Therefore I am giving you back your freedom--and your ring.
I know that you will look at this matter in the same
Once more the sun shines.
Some days later.
"Can you raise five thousand dollars?"
"Put it on my horse in the handicap tomorrow. It will win you out of your trouble."
The Handicap.
"You take his bet and we'll split fifty-fifty."
The borrowed check.
"Pull your horse. We win because we lose."
"Will your horse win?"
"I think he will."
PRIVATE
"You double-crossed me."
"It's Mickey."
"I did it for you."
Some weeks later. Much against her better judgment Mickey goes riding with Reggie.
Oh! She is out riding with Reggie.
Mickey, now thoroughly frightened at his coarse advances, makes a break for her horse.
Where only a caretaker is in charge.
Mickey plays for time.
The Honeymoon. Leaving behind all bitter memories of the East's tinseled glitter and heartless society, they harken to call the Tomboy mine and the open places where they first met.
What the best man had up his sleeve.
THOMAS RAWLINGS
Attorney at Law
Liberty Bldg.New York City
Dear Robert:-
Here's my wedding present. There never was any trouble about your mining property. I just wrote that telegram to myself to get you out of your mix-up with the Drake family. So everything is O. K. and the mine is a big winner.
Congratulations and best wishes to Mickey and yourself.
Cordially,
Rawlings
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