Sweedie Learns to Swim (1914)

Name: Sweedie Learns to Swim
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1914-10-11

10m

Running Time

Plot.

Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the class after fighting with several of the members and goes home, where she fills the bathtub with water and proceeds to learn to swim.

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Cast & Crew.

Wallace Beery

Sweedie

Betty Brown

Mrs. Rich

Ben Turpin

Captain of Life Savers

Leo White

Mr. Rich

Charlotte Mineau

Tall Student

Details.

Release Date
October 11, 1914

Status
Released

Running Time
10m

Genres
Comedy

Last updated: 2025-02-15

This Movie Is About.

silent film

Wiki.

Sweedie Learns to Swim is a 1914 silent short 1-reel comedy film starring Wallace Beery and Ben Turpin and produced and distributed by the Essanay Company.

This short survives in the Library of Congress collection, UCLA Film and Television and others.