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A Cause for Thanksgiving (1914)
Short | Short, Comedy

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A Cause for Thanksgiving (1914)

Short | Short, Comedy

Sonny wants a baby brother, but Daddy tells him they are not for sale. He admits, however, with a smile, that one may someday be left on the doorstep. Sonny takes this seriously and later finds a basket on the doorstep containing a monster...See moreSonny wants a baby brother, but Daddy tells him they are not for sale. He admits, however, with a smile, that one may someday be left on the doorstep. Sonny takes this seriously and later finds a basket on the doorstep containing a monster Thanksgiving turkey which Daddy had ordered sent home. Sonny, of course, concludes the "brother" has arrived. He almost cries with disappointment on discovering it contains only "a old chicken-turkey." He meets Lily Ann, their colored washwoman's little daughter, hauling a coal-black pickaninny in a soap-box on wheels. Seeing Sonny with the turkey, she offers to swap little Rastus for it. arguing that while her family has plenty of "chilluns," turkeys are scarce. Sonny is delighted and decides to surprise Daddy by putting the youngster in the basket and presenting it to him. Meanwhile, Lily Ann returns triumphantly with the turkey, but finds her mother prefers her small black Rastus to all the turkeys in the world. Followed by the whole troupe of brothers, sisters and the weeping Lily Ann, Mammy starts out in search of her child. At dinner Daddy boasts to everyone what a magnificent bird he has picked out for Thanksgiving dinner and almost faints on discovering the little black pickaninny in the basket, while the others roar with laughter. At this moment Mammy arrives, and amid great excitement, recovers her "chile." Everything is explained when Sonny confesses and Mammy is made happy by placing a bill large enough to buy several turkeys in Rastus' hand. Sonny feels cheated, however, as he claims, "When you swap, you swap for keeps." This is an excellent argument, but Daddy pacifies him by saying Christmas will soon be here so he better wait and perhaps Santa Claus will bring him a baby brother at that time. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Bobby Connelly Sonny Jim Sonny Jim See fewer	The Heart of Sonny Jim (1914)
Tefft Johnson Sonny Jim's Father Sonny Jim's Father See fewer	Sonny Boy at the Bat (1916)
Mabel Kelly Sonny Jim's Mother Sonny Jim's Mother See fewer	C.O.D. (1914)
Ada Utley Lily Ann Lily Ann See fewer	Sonny Jim at the Mardi Gras (1915)
Mary Greene Lily Ann's Mammy Lily Ann's Mammy See fewer	A Cause for Thanksgiving (1914)