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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Judy Forgot
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by T. Hayes Hunter
Cast: Marie Cahill [Judy Evans], Samuel B. Hardy (Sam Hardy) [Freddy], Belle Daube [Trixie Gale], Clinton Preston [Dicky Stole], Ed Begley [Uncle Muggs], Lee Kohlmar [Doctor Lauberscheimer], Jane Lee [Baby Gale]
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Broadway Universal Feature]. / Scenario by Raymond L. Schrock, from the play Judy Forgot by Avery Hopwood. / Released 9 August 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Judy forgot. She forgot her own name. She did it on her own honeymoon. Judy Evans, one of the stage stars who could make Broadway audiences laugh, suddenly discovered that one man in the box was straining every effort to catch her glance. Another strange thing about Judy was the fact that she could not keep from winking every time she smiled. Men who noticed this were wont to accuse her of flirting, but being rather sensitive about it. It just couldn’t be helped, that wink of hers, for her mother had done so, and her grandmother. Judy winked straight at Freddy, who was the particular bold young man who was seated in one of the boxes. A son of wealthy parentage and full of fun, he naturally supposed that the wink was genuine, and at once set out for the stage, where he boldly walked into Judy’s room and offered her his heart and hand. He was bodily thrown out by the stage hands, but remained outside looking up at her window with tears in his eyes. Judy finally married him, and amid a shower of rice the couple left for Europe. The wink and smile soon caused a quarrel, and Judy escaped to Marienbad. The train bearing Judy was wrecked and Judy received a severe bump on her head, which caused amnesia. Among the other passengers of the wrecked train were Dicky Stole and his newly-acquired wife, who was formerly divorcee Trixy Gale. Dicky, a college boy of 20, has eloped with Trixy. His parents are enraged at this runaway match. They claim that Trixy has kidnapped their son, a minor in the eyes of the law. They have offered a reward of $500 for the arrest of Trixy “for kidnapping.” John Mugg, an uncle of Dicky’s, is stopping at this same hotel in Marienbad. Mr. Mugg, who is a fleshy man, is in Marienbad taking the “cure,” in an effort to lose some of his superfluous flesh. Mugg has to get up at sunrise, exercise in a gymnasium, walk and run all over the surrounding country, take Turkish baths and live on dry crackers. Dicky and Trixy, in their room at the hotel have just examined their luggage and found that Trixy, instead of receiving her own luggage, has come into possession of trunks and suitcases marked “Mrs. Frederick Evans” (Judy). Then, going for a walk, Dicky sees his uncle, John Mugg. He shows him to Judy. The doctor tells Judy “the shock of the wreck has caused temporary loss of memory.” The doctor discovers suitcases which he thinks belong to Judy. They examine them and find that they are marked “Trixy Gale” (the former name of Dicky’s wife). The doctor tells Judy her name is Trixy Gale. He takes her to the hotel. Then he meets his patient, John Mugg. He tells him he has just left an American lady who has lost her memory, a lady named “Trixy Gale.” Mugg exclaims, “That’s the woman who kidnapped my nephew. If she’s here, that young rascal must be here, too.” At this moment Mugg and the doctor come face to face with Dicky. Trixy has lingered behind to look in a shop window. The doctor, seeking Judy, informs her that she has just kidnapped Dicky, the nephew of Mr. Mugg, and Judy is horrified having married a minor. He takes her to Mugg and Dicky, whereupon she strives desperately to remember how she could ever have married such a funny looking fellow. However, she feels that she must embrace her husband. Trixy, who has returned and who sees the performance, is enraged. Judy is introduced to Mugg. Her smile and wink make a pleasant impression upon him. He begins winking at her. He tells her that he will keep them under his eye until Dicky’s father arrives upon the scene. The doctor explains to Dicky about Judy having lost her memory. Dicky then tells Trixy, “Let her think she’s my wife. Tonight you and I will take a train for Paris and leave my supposed wife here with Uncle Mugg. Suddenly Freddy appears. All morning he has been looking wildly all over Marienbad in search of Judy. He sees her now and rushes to her. She does not recognize him. She is frightened and turns to Dicky for protection. She says to Freddy, “I don’t know you.” Freddy, pointing to Dicky, says, “Who is this man?” “My husband,” says Judy. “I’m your husband,” exclaims Freddy. He tries to strike Dicky. There is a fight and Freddy is arrested and taken away. Judy, disturbed, looks after him, saying to herself: “Where have I seen his face before.” Later, Judy, worn out by all the excitement, returns to the hotel, where she decides to take a nap. As a striking coincidence, at the hotel is a man by the name of Gale, who has two children, who while playing about, become lost and begin crying. The doctor finds them, and asking their names and receiving the reply Gale, at once concludes that Judy, because of her loss of memory, has forgotten about her other children. The doctor takes the children to the hotel, finds out that Judy is sleeping and places the children in bed beside Judy so they will be the first thing she sees when she wakes up. Judy awakens and to her horror perceives the children beside her. She is still more horrified to learn that they are her own, but takes them all into her arms. Mr. Mugg, who has developed quite an affection for Judy, gives an elaborate society circus, in the midst of which the two kids come down into the ballroom, where the frantic father, who has searched high and low for them, takes them away from Judy. Freddy, released from jail, breaks into the society circus and demands his wife. Judy declares that she has never seen him before and urges him to run away. Pressed on all sides by her hallucination of husbands and babies, she and Mugg steal forth from the hotel and into an automobile, intending to escape. Freddy and others pursue in another machine. In her excitement Judy pulls the arm of the chauffeur and the auto plunges into another car and the occupants are thrown out. When Freddy and the others arrive with aid to the injured they find Judy seated on the ground rubbing her head. The shock has restored her memory and she rushes into Freddy’s arms with joy.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Medical: Amnesia
Listing updated: 21 October 2022.
References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 19 : Website-IMDb.
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