- The third of eight films based on the activities behind the cameras at a movie studio. "Addie" Gribble, the wife of a successful business man, Elmer Gribble, tires of her life of leisure and longs for a career as a movie star. Against the wishes of her husband she applies for a job at the studio of the Titan Motion Picture Company. However, her husband and the studio's film director, James Montague, have a conspiracy planned to cure of her dreams of being in the movies.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- Addie Gibble, wife of Elmer Gibble, a prosperous businessman, tires of domestic life and longs to shine as a moving picture star. Mr. Gibble, of different disposition, is quite content to have her remain the star of his home. She announces her intention of joining the movies. He forbids her, but she insists, stating her intention of applying to James Montague, director of the Titan Moving Picture Company for a place. Gibble beats her to it, sees Montague first and makes certain arrangements with that gentleman. Mrs. Gibble appears and is promptly engaged by Montague to play the star part in his mining camp story. Mrs. Gibble tells her husband of her success in securing a place, he pretends to object, then gives in. Mrs. Gibble appears at the studio with Martha, her colored maid. They are shown into a small dressing room, where both women become frightened at a cockroach, scream for help and Buck Parvin comes to their rescue. Mrs. Gibble is instructed to dress for the part of a cook in a mining camp. She appears in fluffs and ruffles and is promptly "bawled out" by Montague, who compels her to put on a dirty gingham dress. She then learns to bake pancakes over a red hot stove, much to her disgust. In the next scene, Buck Parvin spurns and hurls the ambitious Mrs. Gibble to the floor repeatedly in all her fine clothes. Mrs. Gibble does all kinds of hard kitchen work. Mrs. Gibble is then compelled to appear in a "chase," fleeing from a band of angry miners. She runs until she drops from exhaustion to the great delight of all the onlookers. After a day's work, Buck remarks to her, "Well, ma'am, this is the life." That night in her boudoir, tired, sore and bruised, when Mr. Gibble inquires about her work, she gamely responds, "Oh, this is the life."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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