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The Bridal Bouquet

Name: The Bridal Bouquet
Genre: Drama
Released: 1915-01-03

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The story

“Anna Marvin, a dressmaker’s assistant, is engaged to Jim Randall, a young mechanic. Jim becomes attracted to a handsome, well-dressed cloak model, and decides to cast off his little sweetheart. Anna is sent to a wealthy home with a gown which has been delayed. It is the occasion of the wedding of the daughter of the house—and as the seamstress enters the hall, the bridal bouquet, tossed by the bride from the staircase, falls into the astonished child’s arms. Though she had intended that one of her bridesmaids should have this honor, which, as everybody knows, betokens an early and happy marriage, the bride congratulates the little dressmaker’s assistant and sends her home with the beautiful flowers. That evening, Jim Randall calls and finds Anna radiantly happy, feeling that the incident of the afternoon is a good omen. He realizes how cruel he has been in neglecting her for the girl of more stylish appearance; and all his love for Anna flooding back, he persuades her to marry him that very night.”

Summary from Reel Life · 26 December 1914

What the papers said

3 reviews

“To be sure a bridal bouquet falling into one’s arms is a good omen, for the very evening after it happened to her Anna’s prodigal lover returns to her and they are married.”

The Morning Telegraph · 27 December 1915

“This film has a pleasant story, written by Philip Lonergan, in which the principal characters are played by Mignon Anderson, Morris Foster and Lila Chester. It tells of the mission of a bridal bouquet thrown to a sweetheart, fixing a resolution for good in the mind of the young lover.”

The Moving Picture World · 16 January 1915

More reviews

6 January 1915The New York Dramatic Mirror1 min

“Rather a pretty story, produced from a scenario by Philip Lonergan and acted in the principal parts by Mignon Anderson and Morris Foster. The sentiment connected with the bridal bouquet, customarily tossed by a bride to her bridesmaids, is at the bottom of the plot. As it happens in this instance, the bouquet falls into the arms of a seamstress, who is in danger of being deserted by her sweetheart. The flowers prove a lucky omen, for when she returns home that evening Jim regrets his infidelity and insists upon an immediate marriage, which, of course, delights the seamstress. The film is attractively staged.”

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Cast and crew

Cast: Helen Badgley
: Mignon Anderson as Anna Marvin
: J. Morris Foster as Jim Randall
: Ruth Elder
Writer: Philip 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 1915 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Bridal Bouquet”. thanhouser.org/films/the-bridal-bouquet/

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