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. Slapstick disorder ensues. 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
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Those Awful Hats". Silent Era. Retrieved November 24, 2008.
External links
- Those Awful Hats at IMDb
- Those Awful Hats on YouTube
- Those Awful Hats available for free download at Internet Archive
