Wanted, a Nurse
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About Wanted, a Nurse
A clubman sees a nurse treating a minor accident in the street and falls for her. Before he can speak, she leaves with the patient for the hospital. He fakes an illness, gets himself admitted, and hopes the hospital will assign her to him. She is Helen Worth. The doctor in the case is Dr. Worth.
Cast & crew
More about Wanted, a Nurse
Sidney Drew directed the one-reel comedy and plays the clubman. A. N. Hendrickson wrote it. Lucille McVey, billed as Jane Morrow and as Mrs. Sidney Drew, plays Helen Worth. Cortland Van Deusen plays Dr. Worth. Mary Maurice and Ethel Lee are also credited. The General Film Company released it on 22 January 1915.
Themes
Making
Drew plays the scheme himself: a street accident, a missed introduction, then a pretended collapse so the hospital will put the nurse at his bedside.
Reviews
Moving Picture World, 6 February 1915, called it a real comedy and said Drew could be counted on for that kind of picture.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print exists.
Notes
- Moving Picture World of 6 February 1915 said Drew "can always be depended upon to furnish regular comedy, and he does not fail in this instance.
- The same notice credits Hendrickson as the writer and Morrow and Van Deusen as the support.
- Drew was uncle to John, Lionel, and Ethel Barrymore.
- A print exists. It is in the public domain in the United States.
- Silent Era notes a DVD without naming the edition.
Scenes
- He watches Helen Worth bandage a stranger in the street and loses her when she goes to the hospital.
- He throws a fit so the hospital will admit him and, he hopes, assign her as his nurse.
