Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride

Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride is a surviving 1904 silent film short comedy produced by Thomas Edison and directed by Edwin S. Porter and preserved from a Paper print in the Library of Congress.^[1] Its performers are three stage actors uncredited: Evelyn Nesbit, Arthur Byron and Francis Wilson. Francis Wilson was a famous stage tumbler, like his friend and fellow performer Jefferson De Angelis. In this film Wilson himself (or possibly stunt double) is seen falling off the back of a train Keystone Kops style albeit a decade before the Keystones came into existence. Although actors in early American films rarely appeared using their names, this film survives in such clarity that the three performers visages are identifiable. Actor Wilson had no previous known film credit. This uncredited performance is his earliest known appearance in a motion picture.

Cast

• Evelyn Nesbit - The Young Bride (*not credited)
• Arthur Byron - The Groom (*not credited)
• Francis Wilson - Nervy Nat (*not credited)
• John Barrymore - Black Pullman porter (*not credited)

References

External links

• Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride at IMDb.com