Goodness Gracious
Goodness Gracious
A Romance and Comedy film released in 1914, Goodness Gracious runs 22m and comes from the United States. Soap2Day lists it with James Young directing and Sidney Drew and Clara Kimball Young in the cast. Clara Kimball Young, batting her eyelashes even faster than Bernadette Peters, plays Gwendoline, an innocent(?) heroine who seeks a livelihood in the big city. She's briefly employed in a 'bucket shop' (a crooked brokerage house) and arouses the attention of a moustache-twirling top-hatted villain (played by her real-life husband James Young). After temporarily escaping his clutches, she finds gainful employment in the firm of a dry-goods millionaire (James Lackaye). The millionaire's youthful son Cornelius (played by Sidney Drew, well into middle age) falls in love with her ... but his father disapproves of their marriage, and he cuts off Cornelius with only a shilling (24 cents, it says here in the titles). The villain arrives, murders Gwendoline's employer (just temporarily, mind you) and frames Cornelius for the crime. Will true love triumph?
- Genre: Romance, Comedy
- Country: United States of America
- Director: James Young
- Cast: Sidney Drew, Clara Kimball Young
