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 |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Co-authors of the novel
- 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
Plot
As 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 exciting situations including an attack by hijackers, a fight in a private yacht, and rescue by the stranger – who takes her to his beautiful home to which her own party is brought. Eventually it turns out that the hero was looking for adventure and found romance as well and that the girl has become enmeshed in a trap set by revenue officers. When the time for the show-down comes, she has only one side of her hair bobbed and this means that the handsome stranger has won.
Cast
- 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
Preservation status
A surviving print of Bobbed Hair is housed in a foreign archive.[3]
References
- ^ 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
- Bobbed Hair at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
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