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Mary Pickford.
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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The New York Hat
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Mary Pickford [Mollie Goodhue, the young girl], Charles Hill Mailes [Mr. Goodhue, Mollie’s father], Kate Bruce [Mrs. Goodhue, Mollie’s mother], Lionel Barrymore [Preacher Bolton, the minister], [?] ? [the first gossip], Clara T. Bracy [the second gossip], [?] Mae Marsh? [the third gossip], Madge Kirby [the hat shop clerk], John T. Dillon [a church boardmember], Adolph Lestina [a church boardmember], Walter P. Lewis [a church boardmember], Alfred Paget [the doctor], Gertrude Bambrick [a hat shop customer], Kathleen Butler [a windowshopper], Marguerite Marsh [a windowshopper], Robert Harron [a teenage boy at the church], Lillian Gish [a teenage girl at the church], Jack Pickford [a boy at the church], [?] Dorothy Gish?, [?] George Hargraves?, [?] Claire McDowell?, [?] Mack Sennett?, [?] Henry B. Walthall?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Anita Loos. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 5 December 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Loos was 16 years old and a stage actress in San Diego when this, her first film script, was produced. Pickford’s final film for Biograph; The Unwelcome Guest (1913) had been shot before but released after this film.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate positive]; and in private film collections [8mm reduction positives].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Gossip - Hats: Women’s - Rumors
Listing updated: 5 March 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Barry-Griffith pp. 5, 14, 43; Blum-Silent p. 32; Bohn-Light pp. 52, 84; Brownlow-Parade pp. 126, 273; Drew-Speaking p. 220; Everson-American pp. 49, 368; Eyman-Pickford pp. 61-62, 66, 327; Fell-History p. 56; Kerr-Silent p. 8; Spehr-American p. 3; Weaver-Twenty pp. 144, 145 : Website-IMDb; Website-Pickford.
Home video: DVD.
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