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Her Big Brother

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

The story

“Little sister was much looked down upon by brother Roy, two years her senior. He was always telling her what little girls could not do. Worst of all, he would not teach little sister how to swim. But Doris found another instructor, where only a very bright little girl would have thought of looking for help. She watched her pet dog in the water, and by imitating the ‘dog paddle,’ became adept, unknown to big brother. When the school swimming contest came around, Doris ‘swam rings’ around Roy. And after that big brother had to admit that little girls could do lots of things even better than boys—sometimes.”

Summary from Reel Life · 8 August 1914

What the papers said

2 reviews

“An acceptable trifle, dealing with some pretty little American kiddies’ squabbles and amusements. There is only a suspicion of a plot, but the film is quite pleasing and will be especially so to youngsters. And it is always agreeable to see clever, natural children behaving naturally on the screen.”

The Bioscope · 26 November 1914

“A little girl does not listen to the domineering advice of her brother and insists on going in bathing with the boys. She wins a swimming race and gets a medal. This is a good little plot but did not seem to be worked up very skillfully. The swimming race was handled in too perfunctory a way, when it should have aroused more suspense.”

The Moving Picture World · 29 August 1914

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Cast and crew

Cast
Alice Turner as Alice, Doris’ chum
Charles Mather
Doris Farrington as Doris, his little sister
James Wallace
Roy Hauck as Roy, the big brother
Writer
Lloyd F. Lonergan

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More about this film

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, “Her Big Brother”. thanhouser.org/films/her-big-brother/

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