Volume II: Filmography

HATTIE, THE HAIR HEIRESS

(Falstaff)

October 21, 1915 (Thursday)

Length: 1 reel (1,025 feet)

Character: Comedy

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cast: Arthur Cunningham (suitor), Claude Cooper (suitor), Frances Keyes (Hattie, the heiress)

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, October 23, 1915:

"There was much excitement in the little village of Jinx Junction when the local newspapers announced that the 'Hair Heiress' would spend the summer there in the home of her childhood. The heiress' father in his younger days had been a poor but honest farmer. His failure to raise crops of corn and wheat induced him to migrate to the Great City, where, after many privations, he invented a wonderful hair tonic. He amassed a large fortune, died and left everything to his only child, Hattie. All the village beaux of Jinx Junction were anxious to impress the heiress. Among her suitors was a kind-hearted keeper of a garage, who never overcharged any one, and always gave credit to strangers. Another aspirant for her hand was the owner of an ice cream parlor, noted throughout Creosote County for his 'Surprise Banana Tuesday' and the pride of the visitors, the 'Old Town Goulash.' The ice cream man thought at first that he had the inside track, but later he suspected that there was a rival. However, from outside the window of the heiress he joyfully saw her refuse to wed the garage keeper. Yet to his chagrin the girl refused him, also, and showed him his rival's photograph. The ice cream man glanced at the picture and snorted. 'He's horribly bald-headed,' he said. 'I know,' she replied. 'Ever since we met and fell in love I have been trying to make him grow a head of hair like those in papa's advertisements. Up to date my efforts have failed, but I will devote my life to this sacred cause.'"

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, October 23, 1915:

"The coming of the wealthy girl, who has inherited a fortune from her father's hair tonic, to a small town causes great rivalry for her hand. Her suitors all grow heavy hair and beards by use of the tonic in order to win her, but she finally weds a bald-headed man whose hair will not respond to the treatment. This is an amusing idea and works out in quite a pleasing way."

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