Country: United Kingdom
Director: Laurence Trimble
Stars: Florence Turner and Tom
Powers
Release Date: April 1914 (UK)
Production Co: Turner Films
Plot Keywords: Contest | Dream
Sequence | Arrest | Face | Making Faces
| Toothache |
Character Name In Title
Genres: Short | Comedy
For those who like their humour
daft and thoroughly unsophisticated, this silent short will be a delight. The
titular Daisy enters a face-pulling competition ('dial' - as in watch dial - is
neglected slang for a face), but on the big day she falls victim to toothache.
When her husband returns from the contest triumphant, the distinctly unladylike
Daisy vows revenge in the next competition. But her impromptu rehearsal on a
train causes chaos among her fellow passengers, and things only get worse after
she is arrested for disturbing the peace...
Director/lead actress Florence
Turner was an early Hollywood star, who briefly operated her own production
company in Britain in the mid-1910s. Back in Hollywood in the late-1920s, she
appeared alongside Buster Keaton in 'College' (1927), before her star faded.
(Mark Duguid).
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