Her First Biscuits
Her First Biscuits is a 1909 American silent short comedy film written by Frank E. Woods, directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring John R. Cumpson and Florence Lawrence. This was future movie megastar Mary Pickford's film debut, as a ten-year-old extra.
Plot
Mrs. Jones makes biscuits for her husband for the first time. He pretends to like them, but he really thinks they are terrible. He leaves for work at his theatrical booking office.After a short while, the biscuits make Mr. Jones sick; he leaves the office for the adjacent room. While he is away, his wife shows up and leaves a bag of biscuits on his desk. Numerous actors show up, spot the biscuits and eat them. All of them become ill too, most joining Mr. Jones in the next room. Back in the kitchen, an iceman making a delivery, a policeman and another workman all suffer the same fate. Mr. Jones' secretary is a witness to the biscuits' effects. When she is pestered by an actor, she offers him a biscuit just to get rid of him. It works.
When Mrs. Jones returns to the office, all of her victims are angry with her. When she flees their wrath, they chase her home, where she finds the other three casualties of her baking. After some persuading, they get her to throw the biscuits away.