Volume II: Filmography

A DENVER ROMANCE

November 29, 1914 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel (990 feet)

Character: Drama; "Wherein the East shows the West its mettle"

Director: Carl Louis Gregory

Scenario: Carl Louis Gregory

Cameraman: Carl Louis Gregory

Cast: Mignon Anderson (Ann, the western girl), Morris Foster (Vincent Earle, clubman), John Lehnberg (Ann's father), Dr. James M. Perkins (official performing wedding ceremony), Robert Ruble (best man)

Location: Denver, Colorado, as part of a trip which included visits to Yellowstone Park and the states of Wyoming and Colorado.

Note: Dr. James M. Perkins, mayor of Denver, Colorado, performed the wedding ceremony in this film. Robert Ruble, a Denver railroad official, made the arrangements to secure Dr. Perkins' services. Ruble served as best man in the picture.

ARTICLE, The New Rochelle Pioneer, October 3, 1914:

"A Denver newspaper recently printed an article about Carl getting the mayor to perform a 'movie marriage.' Gregory asked him to kiss the bride, but the mayor refused, saying that his wife went to the movies."

ADVERTISEMENT, The Moving Picture World, November 28, 1914:

"This drama centers about a young Western girl who has just returned from an Eastern college. At the railroad station she meets a young New York bachelor who is traveling west to see the country. Her father is an old Westerner who believes that all Easterners are effeminate and lacking in manhood, but is finally converted by the young New York bachelor after a wonderful display of guns."

ARTICLE, The Moving Picture World, November 28, 1914:

"Dr. Perkins, mayor of Denver, will be seen in a forthcoming Thanhouser release called A Denver Romance. The mayor, appearing for the first time on any screen, was not easily inducted into the limelight. When the Thanhouser Company was in Denver, a picture was taken in that city. Mignon Anderson and Morris Foster were to be married and the mayor officiated."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, November 21, 1914:

"Ann begged so hard that her father should invite to the ranch a young Easterner with whom she had become acquainted on the train, which brought her home from the New York finishing school, that at last he consented. Ann's father hadn't much use for a 'tenderfoot,' although this one had saved his daughter from the unwelcome attentions of a 'masher' on her long journey alone and so was entitled, perhaps, to his hospitality. The young man came, and the train acquaintance ripened into love. Ann said 'Yes' with all her heart, but her father ordered Vincent Earle off the ranch. He went - but not alone. he and Ann ran away to Denver and were married. Returning to beg parental forgiveness, Earle carried in his pocket a small but ugly automatic. And though the Westerner was ready with a big revolver, the young Easterner managed to get the better of the situation, convincing the father of the bride that the East as well as the West breeds sturdy, self-reliant manhood."

REVIEW, The Bioscope, March 11, 1915:

"A pretty and light love comedy which combines incidentally the attractions of a scenic film. The plot, which is slight and conventional, but quite sufficient for its purpose, deals with a young man's successful courtship of a young woman whom he has met for the first time during a train journey. The natural backgrounds against which most of the action passes, include numerous interesting glimpses of Denver City and its neighbourhood, and it may be mentioned that the wedding ceremony with which the story concludes is performed by a real, live mayor, who makes his 'first appearance on any screen' in this film."

REVIEW, The Morning Telegraph, November 29, 1914:

"A young Easterner wins the love of a Western girl and when her rough rancher father refuses his consent to their marriage he forces him to give in at the point of a gun, thereby demonstrating that the wild and wooly West isn't the only place where the men can use Colonel Colt."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, December 12, 1914:

"A kind of 'see Denver grow' picture, with some fine pictures of the western metropolis. It pretends to tell a story; but this is of little interest. The photography is fine."

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