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1914PrincessOne reelComedy

Forced to Be Stylish

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What the papers said

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“The theme of this plot is conventional and has been used in farce, comedy, and pictures over and over again. However, it has been well directed and proves quite amusing. An old-fashioned country aunt visits her city relatives, who force her to be stylish. She fights hard, but in the end she refuses to don her old-fashioned costumes, being satisfied she makes a better appearance in the newfangled things.”

The Moving Picture World · 16 May 1914

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More about this film

Bowers’ notes
  1. Certain schedules give the release date of this film as May 1, 1914. 2. This was erroneously listed as a two-reel film in some notices.

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1914 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Forced to Be Stylish”. thanhouser.org/films/forced-to-be-stylish/

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