Skipper Simpson's Daughter - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Bill and Jed call to see Nettie Simpson. Both endeavor to propose to the girl but something happens each time they are about to pop the question. Bill is right in the midst of his proposal when the door opens and a very wet and shivering ...See moreBill and Jed call to see Nettie Simpson. Both endeavor to propose to the girl but something happens each time they are about to pop the question. Bill is right in the midst of his proposal when the door opens and a very wet and shivering stranger with a handbag enters. He is promptly kicked out by Bill who is angry at being interrupted. The stranger makes several efforts to tell his story, which finally reveals he is a distant relative of the Simpsons, and that the object of his trip is to marry Nettie Simpson and thus fulfill the plans of an eccentric uncle's will. Both Jed and Bill unite to crush this now-common enemy. Nettie, though in love with Artemus, refuses to marry him as long as there is money involved. However, her stern father finally makes her accede to the wedding, and the wedding morn dawns with Jed and Bill arranging to play their last card. Artemus, too, has a change of heart and decides to leave and let Nettie marry whom she will. Bill and Jed kidnap the bridegroom and take him to an island in the harbor, where they are going to leave him get off as best he can. They, in the meantime, have persuaded a tramp to go to the Simpson house and pose as the real Artemus Boggs. A note to this effect and presumably coming from Artemus's father, convinces the skipper. To her horror, Nettie realizes she must marry this awful looking tramp. However, the plans of Jed and Bill go wrong, and Boggs, escaping from them, leaves them on the island in place of himself. Nettie rushes away from the house and meets Artemus, who has escaped from the island and, knowing that only Bill and Jed can set them right with the skipper, they row out to the island and offer to take them off if they will confess to the skipper that the tramp stunt was a frame up. This they agree to do, the tramp is thrown out and Nettie marries Artemus in spite of the enemy. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less