Mother's Child

Mother's Child
Film poster
Directed byOliver Hardy
Will Louis
Produced byLouis Burstein
StarringOliver Hardy
Release date
  • November 23, 1916 (1916-11-23)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Mother's Child is a 1916 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.[1]

Plot

This plot summary comes from The Moving Picture World for December 9, 1916:[2]

A quite fast knockabout comedy reel, with Babe Hardy and Kate Price the leaders. Babe goes to college and falls for one of the co-eds. This brings him before the upper classmen, who haze him considerable, but the tables are turned when mother gets on the job and, disguised, gives the classmen some of their own medicine

Cast

  • Oliver Hardy as Babe (as Babe Hardy)
  • Kate Price as His mother
  • Joe Cohen as Tom
  • Florence McLaughlin as Florence (as Florence McLoughlin)

See also

References

  1. ^ Miller, Blair (2013). Almost Hollywood: The Forgotten Story of Jacksonville, Florida. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-7618-5994-9.
  2. ^ Exclusively by Our Own Staff. "Comments on the Films: General Film Company: Mother's Child (Vim), Nov. 23". The Moving Picture World. 30 (10): 1511 โ€“ via The Internet Archive.