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{{infobox film
| name = Bobbed Hair
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| director = [[Alan Crosland]]
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'''''Bobbed Hair''''' is a 1925 American [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Alan Crosland]] and starring [[Marie Prevost]], [[Kenneth Harlan]], and [[Louise Fazenda]], and [[Dolores Costello]].<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BobbedHair1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Bobbed Hair''] at silentera.com</ref> 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.]]
 
==Plot==
As described in a review in a film magazine,<ref name="MPW">{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=Charles S. |author-link= |title=Through the Box Office Window: ''Bobbed Hair''; Warner Brothers Comedy-Melodrama Based on Novel by Twenty Famous Authors, Both Exciting and Amusing |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=60 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=14 November 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movpicwor77movi/page/n57/mode/1up |access-date=3 October 2021}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Connemara Moore (Prevost) has two suitors,. oneOne likes [[bob cut|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 [[Rum-running|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 strangerDavid – who takes herConnemara to his beautiful home to which her own party is brought. Eventually it turns out that the heroDavid was looking for adventure and found romance as well and that the girlConnemara has become enmeshed in a trap set by revenue officers. When the time for thea show-down comes, she has only one side of her hair bobbed, and this means thatshe thehas handsomechosen stranger has wonDavid.
 
==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
*[[Marie Prevost]] as Connemara Moore
*[[Kenneth Harlan]] as David Lacy
*[[Louise Fazenda]] as Sweetie
*[[John Roche (actor)|John Roche]] as Saltonstall Adams
*[[Emily Fitzroy]] as Aunt Celimena Moore
*[[Reed Howes]] as Bingham Carrington
*[[Pat Hartigan (actor)|Pat Hartigan]] as Swede
*[[Walter Long (actor)|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==
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*[[Sophie Kerr]] – novelist
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==Plot==
As described in a review in a film magazine,<ref name="MPW">{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=Charles S. |author-link= |title=Through the Box Office Window: ''Bobbed Hair''; Warner Brothers Comedy-Melodrama Based on Novel by Twenty Famous Authors, Both Exciting and Amusing |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=60 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=14 November 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movpicwor77movi/page/n57/mode/1up |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref> 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 [[Rum-running|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==
{{Cast listing|
*[[Marie Prevost]] as Connemara Moore
*[[Kenneth Harlan]] as David Lacy
*[[Louise Fazenda]] as Sweetie
*[[John Roche (actor)|John Roche]] as Saltonstall Adams
*[[Emily Fitzroy]] as Aunt Celimena Moore
*[[Reed Howes]] as Bingham Carrington
*[[Pat Hartigan (actor)|Pat Hartigan]] as Swede
*[[Walter Long (actor)|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==
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*{{IMDb title|0015632|Bobbed Hair}}
*{{allmovieallMovie title|85562|Synopsis}}
 
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[[Category:1925 films]]
[[Category:1925 comedy films]]
[[Category:English-languageSilent American comedy films]]
[[Category:American comedy films]]
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[[Category:Films directed by Alan Crosland]]
[[Category:Warner Bros. films]]
[[Category:1920s American films]]