Bobbed Hair (1925 film)

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
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	October 25, 1925 (1925-10-25)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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.

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 situations including an attack by hijackers, a fight in a private yacht, and rescue by David – who takes Connemara to his home. Eventually it turns out that David was looking for adventure and Connemara has become enmeshed in a trap set by revenue officers. When the time for a show-down comes, she has only one side of her hair bobbed, and this means she has chosen David.

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

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

Preservation status

A surviving print of Bobbed Hair is housed in a foreign archive. ^[3]

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: Bobbed Hair at silentera.com
2. 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 .
3. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Bobbed Hair

External links

• Bobbed Hair at IMDb