Freckles (1912)

• 55%
• 1912
• Frederick A. Thomson
• John Bunny
• Flora Finch
• Julia Swayne Gordon

Freckles are not considered a mark of beauty by persons who are obliged to wear them. Mr. John, whose face is freckled like a speckled beauty, is annoyed because his wife teases him about it. He reads a beauty doctor's advertisement in the newspaper and determines to have his complexion renovated. He telephones the doctor to call at his home on his wife's Euchre Club night, enhance his beauty during her absence and surprise her when she returns. On the appointed night, he has great difficulty in getting his wife off to the club before the doctor arrives. After many delays, he gets her safely out of the house. The doctor comes and introduces herself as Madam Legrande, the Beauty Expert. John makes preparation for the treatment and the Madam begins operations. Mrs. John begins thinking about her husband's anxiety to get her out of his house and leaves the card party hurriedly, and reaches home just as John is in the midst of the treatment. John hears her coming and bundles the Madam with all her belongings into the bathroom. When Mrs. John goes into the sitting room, John greets her with a kiss and she scents the perfumed lotions upon his face and begins to ply him with interrogatory remarks. She spies the doctor's hat upon the table and sees John make a gesture toward the bathroom door. Rushing into the bathroom, Mrs. John finds the Madam and drags her into the presence of Mr. John, who explains the presence of the Expert and why he was anxious to remove the freckles that he might be more beautiful in his wife's eyes. This satisfies Mrs. John and after he pays the Madam her fee, Mrs. John kisses his face and tells him that she loves him, freckles and all and no beauty doctor could make him more beautiful or lovely in her estimation.