The New York Hat
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| The New York Hat | |
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| Directed by | David Wark Griffith |
| Produced by | Biograph |
| Written by | Anita Loos |
| Starring | Mary Pickford Lionel Barrymore Lillian Gish |
| Music by | Robert Israel (new score) |
| Cinematography | G.W. Bitzer |
| Release date(s) | 5 December 1912 |
| Running time | 16 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
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The New York Hat is a short film produced by Biograph in 1912. Based on a scenario by Anita Loos, it was directed by David Wark Griffith and stars Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish.
It is considered one of the most notable of the Biograph shorts and is perhaps the best known example of Pickford's early work.
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[edit] Plot
Mollie Goodhue leads a cheerless, impoverished life, largely because of her stern, miserly father. Mrs. Goodhue is mortally ill, but before dying, she gives the minister, Preacher Bolton, some money with which to buy her daughter the "finery" her father has always forbad her. Mollie is delighted when the minister presents her with a fashionable New York hat she has been longing for, but village gossips misinterpet the minister's intentions and spread malicious rumors. Mollie becomes a social pariah, and her father tears up the beloved hat in a rage. All ends well, however, after the minister produces a letter from Mollie's mother about the money she left the minister to spend on Mollie. Soon afterwards, he proposes to Mollie, who accepts his offer of marriage.
[edit] Cast (in credits order)
- Mary Pickford ... Miss Mollie Goodhue (the girl)
- Charles Hill Mailes ... Mr. Goodhue (her father)
- Kate Bruce ... Mrs. Goodhue (her mother)
- Lionel Barrymore ... Preacher Bolton (minister)
- Alfred Paget ... The Doctor
- Claire McDowell ... First Gossip
- Mae Marsh ... Second Gossip
- Clara T. Bracy ... Third Gossip
- Madge Kirby ... Shopkeeper/At Mother's Deathbed
- Lillian Gish ... Customer in Shop/Outside Church
- Jack Pickford ... Youth outside church
- Robert Harron ... Youth outside church
[edit] rest of cast listed alphabetically
- Gertrude Bambrick ... In Shop/Outside Church (uncredited)
- Kathleen Butler ... Windowshopper (uncredited)
- John T. Dillon ... Church Board Member (uncredited)
- Dorothy Gish ... (uncredited)
- James Kirkwood ... Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Adolph Lestina ... Church Board Member (uncredited)
- Walter P. Lewis ... Church Board Member (uncredited)
- Marguerite Marsh ... Windowshopper (uncredited)
- W.C. Robinson ... In Shop (uncredited)
- Mack Sennett ... (uncredited)
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