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Her First Biscuits

19097 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A woman's first batch of biscuits makes her husband ill, but she leaves more at his office. Visiting actors and other unsuspecting people try them too, until her attempt at kindness produces a procession of angry victims.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
8:16
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Category:Films directed by D. W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Behind the scenes

The short was originally released on a shared reel with The Faded Lilies. Its repeated encounters turn one unsuccessful recipe into a chain reaction across home and workplace.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

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  • John R. Cumpson — Original author of portrait was Edison Studios, Bronx, New York, 1911; Photograph of actor John R. Cumpson published in The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Brooklyn, New York), July 1911, p. 3; Internet Archive, San Francisco, California: https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturesto01moti#page/n707/mode/2up/search/Cumpson · Public domain
  • Florence Lawrence — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research; http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=4236 · Public domain

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