Sweet Memories (film)

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Sweet Memories
Directed by Thomas H. Ince
Written byThomas H. Ince
Produced by Carl Laemmle
Starring Mary Pickford
King Baggot
Distributed by Independent Moving Pictures (IMP)
Release date
  • March 27, 1911 (1911-03-27)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Sweet Memories (also known as Sweet Memories of Yesterday and Sweetheart Days) is a 1911 silent short romantic drama film, written and directed by Thomas H. Ince, released by the Independent Moving Pictures Company on March 27, 1911. [1]

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Plot

Polly Biblett, a young lady, introduces her grandmother Lettie to her boyfriend, before the couple depart. This triggers a series of reminiscences of the elderly woman's own lifelong sweetheart, beginning with when they were only infants, when the boy gives her a flower (which she tosses away) and kisses her. When she is 14, he paints her portrait, then kisses her twice. They wander off, with his arm around her shoulder. She considers herself and her love still "children" at 21. He tells her how he feels about her; they then dance a minuet with three other couples, a memory she treasures. When another man is a bit too forward with her, her outraged sweetheart intervenes and challenges the interloper to a duel. They fence with epees for a bit before she runs up and makes them stop. Then the couple marry and have a child. However, Lettie's sweetheart dies while yet a young man. The granddaughter returns with her beau.

Cast

Production

Due to legal troubles, Carl Laemmle and IMP could not produce films in the United States at this time, so they relocated to Cuba for four months, working at the deserted Palacio del Carneado on the outskirts of Havana. [2] [3] The entire Pickford family—siblings Mary, Lottie and Jack, their mother Charlotte, and Mary's husband Owen Moore—went there, and all acted in the film. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Sweet Memories". silentera.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ Drinkwater, John (1931). The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle (PDF). G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 153–154, 159. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  3. ↑ Taves, Brian (2012). Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 16–18. ISBN   978-0-8131-3422-2 . Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  4. ↑ Taves, Brian (2012). Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer. University Press of Kentucky. p. 35. ISBN   978-0-8131-3422-2 . Retrieved June 22, 2025.
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