Don't Let Mother Know, also The Bliss of Ignorance is a 1913 American silent film drama produced by Hardee Kirkland. The film stars Maxwell Sargent, Carl Winterhoff, Louise Kelly, Adrienne Kroell and Jack Jonson. The film status is uncertain but a release flier survives which is now at the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Synopsis
Rough and Ready Tom Moran discovers an inebriated individual, Dick Baird who is getting the worst of a quelling fight against odds and rescues the under man. Baird is about all in as the result of his previous dissipation and this last brawl. He confesses to Norman that he has not been at home or seen his mother for fifteen years. He shows Tom the picture of his mother and sister which he carries in a locket that he has cherished through all of his wanderings. He has just written home saying that he will return on a visit, but it is too late; he is next day slugged to death by a robber, his last words to his friend being: "Don't let mother know". Tom Moran finds his way to Dick's home and falls in love with his sister. The mother is blind and thinks her own boy has come back to her. He is allowed to become a member of the family and bless her declining years.
J. Warren Kerrigan y joue un homme fatigué par l'amour excessif que lui porte sa femme (Adrienne Kroell) qui ne le laisse jamais en paix et ne cesse de l'embrasser à tout propos. Avec l'aide d'un docteur (Dot Farley), il fait croire à sa femme qu'il a besoin de repos complet et s'installe dans un appartement séparé. La nuit, il s'échappe et part s'amuser avec le docteur et ses amis, tandis que sa femme croit qu'il dort... jusqu'à ce que la femme du docteur découvre la supercherie et couvre le mari de ridicule.