A Bald Lie (1911)

• 79%
• 1911
• Comedy
• Michel Carré
• Charles Mosnier
• Marie-Ernestine Desclauzas
• Paul Capellani

John Jones has a bald head and a jealous wife, which, to say the least, is a very bad combination. Also John has a long thirst and is very fond of the society of pretty young ladies. This leads to many unhappy occurrences in his home, and finally to a catastrophe. He receives a telegram from some of his cronies, requesting his immediate presence, but this doesn't work and Jones is dejected. Finally he sees an advertisement for Hair-On, a marvelous tonic which has been known to grow side-whiskers on a marble-top table. On the plea that he is going to get some of this, his wife lets him go out. He does buy a bottle, but does not return home. Instead, he soon finds himself in the company of some gay companions in one of the fashionable restaurants, where one of the girls, after hearing him talk about the tonic, persuades him to let her anoint him with it. He consents, and with a brush she forms the letters on his head. Well, we won't tell you what she put on, but it grew a most beautiful crop of hair, and when Jones went home his wife got the message painted on his ivory top piece, and what happened after that is too good to spoil with the telling.