Bobbed Hair is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Marie Prevost, Kenneth Harlan, and Louise Fazenda, and.[1] It was based on a 1925 novel of the same name written by twenty different authors. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.
| Bobbed Hair | |
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| Directed by | Alan Crosland |
| Written by | Scenario: Lewis Milestone Jack Wagner |
| Story by | Louis Bromfield Alexander Woollcott |
| Based on | Bobbed Hair (1925 novel) by 20 co-authors (see list in article) |
| Starring | Marie Prevost Louise Fazenda Kenneth Harlan |
| Cinematography | Byron Haskin Frank Kesson |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot
editAs described in a review in a film magazine,[2] Connemara Moore (Prevost) has two suitors. One likes bobbed hair, the other does not. In escaping from both she enters the car of David Lacy (Harlan), a stranger, which proves to have been stolen from bootleggers and is swept into a succession of situations including an attack by hijackers, a fight in a private yacht, and rescue by David – who takes Connemara to his home. Eventually it turns out that David was looking for adventure and Connemara has become enmeshed in a trap set by revenue officers. When the time for a show-down comes, she has only one side of her hair bobbed, and this means she has chosen David.
Cast
edit- Marie Prevost as Connemara Moore
- Kenneth Harlan as David Lacy
- Louise Fazenda as Sweetie
- John Roche as Saltonstall Adams
- Emily Fitzroy as Aunt Celimena Moore
- Reed Howes as Bingham Carrington
- Pat Hartigan as Swede
- Walter Long as Doc
- Francis McDonald as Pooch
- Tom Ricketts as Mr. Brewster
- Otto Hoffman as McTish
- Kate Toncray as Mrs. Parker
Cast notes
- Dolores Costello and Helene Costello appear in bit parts
Co-authors of the novel
edit- George Agnew Chamberlain – novelist
- George Barr McCutcheon – novelist
- Robert Gordon Anderson – short story writer
- George P. Putnam – publisher of the novel
- Alexander Woollcott – critic and essayist (The Man Who Came to Dinner)
- Meade Minnigerode – co-editor of "The Whiffenpoof Song"
- John V. A. Weaver – poet
- Kermit Roosevelt – Theodore Roosevelt's son
- Dorothy Parker – poet / story writer / dramatist
- Louis Bromfield – novelist
- Gerald Mygatt – journalist
- Carolyn Wells – comic poet / mystery writer
- Rube Goldberg – cartoonist
- Bernice Brown – journalist
- Wallace Irwin – novelist
- Frank Craven – playwright / actor
- H. C. Witwer – comic novelist
- Elsie Janis – vaudeville star / author
- Edward Streeter – author (Father of the Bride)
- Sophie Kerr – novelist
Preservation status
editA surviving print of Bobbed Hair is housed in a foreign archive.[3]
References
edit- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Bobbed Hair at silentera.com
- ^ Sewell, Charles S. (November 14, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: Bobbed Hair; Warner Brothers Comedy-Melodrama Based on Novel by Twenty Famous Authors, Both Exciting and Amusing". The Moving Picture World. 77 (2). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 60. Retrieved October 3, 2021.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Bobbed Hair
External links
edit- Bobbed Hair at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
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