The Heiress at Coffee Dan's

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The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
Bessie Love flirts with a customer in The Heiress at Coffee Dan's.jpg
Frank Bennett and Bessie Love
Directed by Edward Dillon [1] [2]
Screenplay by Bernard McConville [3]
Starring Bessie Love
Cinematography David Abel [1] [3]
Production
company
Distributed by Triangle Film Corporation
Release date
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Heiress at Coffee Dan's is a 1916 American silent comedy-drama [7] film produced by the Fine Arts Film Company and distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. It starred Bessie Love and was directed by Edward Dillon.

Contents

The film is presumed lost.

Plot

Waffles (Love) deals with a customer in the diner Bessie Love deals with a customer in The Heiress at Coffee Dan's.jpg
Waffles (Love) deals with a customer in the diner

Waffles (Love) is a Swedish immigrant who is working as a waitress in Coffee Dan's, a San Francisco diner. She is in love with poor composer Carl (Bennett).

Thieves Clara Johnstone (Younge) and Bert Gallagher (Paget) learn about a missing heiress in a newspaper, and convince Waffles that she is the heiress. Waffles moves into a lavish mansion, and plans to buys the diner for its chef Shorty (Davidson), publish Carl's music, and adopt a baby. However, Johnstone breaks up Waffles and Carl, and Waffles becomes engaged to Gallagher. Before the wedding, Carl appears and stops it.

When the real heiress appears, Waffles returns to her original life, but she receives a reward for the capture of Johnstone and Gallagher. With her money, she buys the diner for Shorty, publishes Carl's music, and adopts the baby. [3] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Cast

Waffles (Love) poses as a rich heiress Bessie Love lives as a rich heiress in The Heiress at Coffee Dan's.jpg
Waffles (Love) poses as a rich heiress

Reception

Bessie Love received positive reviews for her performance in the title role, [7] [11] [14] called "always pleasing". [7]

The film received mixed reviews. Reviewer George Graves liked the film, but would have preferred it as a straight comedy. He called the direction "adequate". [7] One review called it a "dull story." [15]

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References

Notes
  1. ↑ Various publications provide different release dates: December 21, [4] 23, [5] and 24. [6]
Citations
  1. 1 2 Love 1977, p. 149
  2. ↑ Love 1977, p. 69
  3. 1 2 3 4 "The Heiress at Coffee Dan's". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ "8,000 Titles of Features". The 1927 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures. John W. Alicoate. 1927. p. 103.
  5. ↑ "Index of Reviews, Comments, and Stories of the Films". The Moving Picture World. New York, NY: Chalmers Publishing Company. December 30, 1916. p. ix.
  6. ↑ "Features – Current and Coming". Motion Picture News. New York, NY. January 22, 1917. p. 603.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Graves, George (January 16, 1917). "The Heiress at Coffee Dan's". Motography. Vol. 17, no. 1.
  8. ↑ "Bessie Love in Triangle Drama". La Crosse Tribune . La Crosse, Wisconsin. January 13, 1917. p. 4.
  9. ↑ Collings, Jane (1996). "The Hollywood Waitress". In James, David E.; Berg, Rick (eds.). The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the Question of Class. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. p. 282. ISBN   978-0-8166-2704-2.
  10. ↑ "Triangle Releases for Week of December 17th". Motion Picture News. Vol. 14, no. 25. New York, NY. December 23, 1916. p. 3956.
  11. 1 2 "Bessie Love in 'The Heiress at Coffee Dan's'". Film Fun. No. 335. February 1917. p. 10.
  12. 1 2 "Stories of the Films". The Moving Picture World. New York: The World Photographic Publishing Company. January 6, 1917. p. 142.
  13. ↑ Porter, Verne Hardin (June 1918). "And the Elephants Beckoned 'Come On! Come On!'". Photoplay. Vol. 14, no. 1. pp. 32–33, 116.
  14. ↑ Milne, Peter (December 23, 1916). "Screen Examinations". Motion Picture News. Vol. 14, no. 25. New York, NY. p. 4042.
  15. ↑ "Comments on the Films". The Moving Picture World. New York, NY: The World Photographic Publishing Company. December 23, 1916. p. 1821.
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