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Jenkins' Jinx (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy

Jenkins' Jinx (1916)

Short | Short, Comedy

Jeremiah Jenkins has been a victim of hard luck and misfortune for eight months. At the opening of the story we find him doing the marketing for the family because the cook has a toothache, and his wife cannot go for the reason that she ...See moreJeremiah Jenkins has been a victim of hard luck and misfortune for eight months. At the opening of the story we find him doing the marketing for the family because the cook has a toothache, and his wife cannot go for the reason that she cannot leave her lap dog. He arrives home with his burden of marketing, only to stumble over it while flirting with a young woman, and reaches his apartment in disgrace. His friend, Jess Jolly, tells that a jinx and hoodoo must be following him, and this jinx is decided by this superstitious person to be peacock feathers, because even a letter bearing bad news has the device of a peacock on it. Struck by the seeming good sense of his friend, Jenkins decided to rid the house of everything bordering on a peacock feather and crams them into a suit case. This is thrown from a window only to fall on the head of a passing woman, and it cost him $20 to settle the matter. He bribes the elevator boy of his apartment to make away with the suit case, but he is stopped by a policeman, and the case comes back again. Jenkins takes it to a quarry, and places it on top of a blast. But the case is blown into the air and lands at his feet unharmed. He throws it from a bridge, when it upsets a boat in which are Jess Jolly and his sweetheart, and not knowing that this is the hoodoo suit case, they take it to the Jenkins apartment. Jenkins hurries away with it again and throws it from a ferryboat. A few days later, while at the seaside, Jenkins and his wife are bathing, when the fateful suit case floats in upon them from the sea, and it is burned on a beach fire. Arriving home, Jenkins finds a bundle dropped by a woman. This contains a large fan of peacock feathers, and he throws it from the window into a back lot. Next day a reward is offered for it by its owner, and Jenkins hurries to the lot to retrieve it. Some boys have found it, and, after a struggle, he rescues it from them, rushes to the lady's house and secures the reward. At the end we find him surrounded by his family purchasing a peacock, for he has decided that peacock feathers instead of being a jinx are an omen of great fortune. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Francis Joyner Jeremiah Jenkins Jeremiah Jenkins See fewer	Mr. Housekeeper (1916)
Vinnie Burns Mrs. Jenkins (as June Daye) Mrs. Jenkins (as June Daye) See fewer	The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1914)
Margaret Moore The Cook The Cook See fewer	The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch (1915)
John Sherman The Elevator Boy (as John Shermer) The Elevator Boy (as John Shermer) See fewer	The Tree of Knowledge (1912)
Adelaide Hayes Sadie Sadie See fewer	The Toilers (1916)
Kempton Greene Jess Jolly Jess Jolly See fewer	A Question of Right (1914)