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The New York Hat

191216 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

A minister buys a fashionable hat for a young woman using money secretly left by her dying mother. Village gossip turns the gift into a scandal, leaving him to explain an act of kindness that the community has badly misread.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
16:08
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · D.W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Behind the scenes

Anita Loos wrote the scenario for this Biograph short starring Mary Pickford. The hat becomes a compact dramatic object, carrying the daughter's wish, the mother's care and the neighbours' suspicion.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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