Those Awful Hats

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Those Awful Hats
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Directed byD. W. Griffith
Written byD.W. Griffith
StarringMack Sennett
CinematographyG. W. Bitzer
Release date
  • January 25, 1909 (1909-01-25)
Running time
Original length 185 feet (under 3 minutes)[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
(English intertitles)
End screen.

Those Awful Hats is a 1909 American short comedy film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Mack Sennett. It takes place in a small, crowded movie theatre, where the patrons are perpetually distracted by people - primarily women - wearing large, ostentatious hats that obstruct everyone else's views of the screen. The film ends with a title card reading, "Ladies Will Please Remove Their Hats." A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.[2]

Cast[]

  • Mack Sennett as Man in checkered jacket
  • Flora Finch as Woman with largest hat
  • Linda Arvidson as Theatre Audience
  • John R. Cumpson as Theatre Audience
  • George Gebhardt as Theatre Audience
  • Robert Harron as Theatre Audience
  • Anita Hendrie as Theatre Audience
  • Charles Inslee as Theatre Audience
  • Arthur V. Johnson as Theatre Audience
  • Florence Lawrence as Theatre Audience
  • Gertrude Robinson as Theatre Audience
  • Dorothy West as Theatre Audience

See also[]

  • 1909 in film
  • D. W. Griffith filmography

References[]

  1. ^ "Those Awful Hats", film promotion, The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), 23 January 1909, p. 83. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Those Awful Hats". Silent Era. Retrieved November 24, 2008.

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