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How Men Propose
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Lois Weber [?] + [Phillips Smalley]?

Cast: Chester Barnett [a proposer], Phillips Smalley [a proposer], Grace Darling [herself], [?] Lois Weber? [the maid]

The Crystal Film Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Lois Weber. / © 1913 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. Released 20 July 1913; in a split-reel with The Hall-Room Girls (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute collection).

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Chairs - Handwriting - Hats: Top hats - Letters - Maids - Musical instruments: Pianos - Photographs - Proposals

Listing updated: 6 January 2025.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Leyda-Before pp. 76, 83, 150 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.