Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
About Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Mr. Jones, played by John R. Cumpson, brings friends in for cards and drink while Mrs. Jones, played by Florence Lawrence, is out with her temperance circle. He passes out. The friends put him in a woman's dress and makeup and leave him in bed. The women miss their train and walk back in on him.
Cast & crew
More about Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
D. W. Griffith directed and wrote the one-reel comedy with Frank E. Woods. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Biograph released it on January 21, 1909. It is one of the Mr. Jones shorts Griffith made with Cumpson and Lawrence.
Themes
Making
Griffith and Bitzer were turning these Jones comedies out at Biograph alongside the dramatic one-reelers. Lawrence left the company later in 1909 for IMP.
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the single interior: the party, the bedroom, and the wives' return.
Preservation
A print survives. Accounts of that print say the intertitles are missing.
Notes
- Linda Arvidson plays the maid. Robert Harron plays a messenger. Mack Sennett is one of the guests.
- Other guests are Flora Finch, Anita Hendrie, Charles Inslee, Arthur V. Johnson, Jeanie MacPherson, and Harry Solter.
- Accounts of the surviving print say the title cards are missing.
- One screening note has Jones tear his trousers during the party. Others describe the friends leaving him in a dress and makeup.
Scenes
- Jones's friends drink and play while the wives are supposed to be gone.
- They leave him in bed in a dress and makeup.
- Mrs. Jones and her circle walk in after missing the train.
