The Dream (1911 film)

The Dream is a 1911 short film, one reel, produced and released by the Independent Moving Pictures Company IMP and directed by Thomas H. Ince and George Loane Tucker. It starred Mary Pickford and her husband Owen Moore after they left working at the Biograph Company. This film is preserved at the Library of Congress, a rare survivor from Pickfords IMP period. It appears on the Milestone Films DVD of Pickfords 1918 feature Amarilly of ClothesLine Alley.

Six hours later, the husband strides through the door awakening his wife who is still sitting by the dining room table. He rebuffs her attempt to take his hat, whereupon she points to the wall clock. She draws his attention to dinner, which still sits on the dining table. He upends a few dishes then overturns a chair before collapsing on the sofa, cigarette in hand. Upset, the wife walks off camera and the scene fades to black.In the next scene, introduced by a title card stating HIS DREAM, the wife returns, clad in a formfitting dress and a plumed hat. She awakens the husband by jostling his head. Talking animatedly, she downs a couple of glasses of wine from a decanter on the sideboard and tosses the wineglass on the floor. She dropkicks a plate, lights up a cigarette, flicks the match at her husband, and blows smoke in his face. She pelts him with a pillow that has been lying on the floor, slings her coat over her arm, pulls down the curtains covering the door, and blows the husband a kiss goodbye. A wellappointed gentleman arrives at the front steps to their house a second or two before the wife steps out the front door and they leave together. ........

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