Volume II: Filmography

LITTLE BOBBY

March 14, 1915 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel (955 feet)

Character: Comedy

Director: William H. Stevens

Scenario: William H. Stevens

Cast: Helen Badgley (Little Bobby), Ethyle Cooke (Bobby's mother), Harris Gordon (Bobby's father), Fan Bourke, Leland Benham

Note: The Studio Directory of Motion Picture News, 1916 lists Leland Benham as a player in this film, and is the basis for the listing in the cast above. However, this listing is probably erroneous, and Helen Badgley was probably intended.

ADVERTISEMENT, Reel Life, March 6, 1915:

"Six-year-old Bob's love for his father-cobbler is so great as to inspire him to forsake his toys and go out and to earn money in order that his father's wish for a home might be realized. Bob gets the money. It is a sweet comedy-drama admirably interpreted by Helen Badgley, Ethyle Cooke, and Harris Gordon."

SYNOPSIS, The Morning Telegraph, February 21, 1915:

"In Little Bobby, by Will H. Stevens, a Thanhouser release in the Mutual program, the part of this small masculine six-year-old runaway is played by Helen Badgley, the Thanhouser Kidlet. His father and mother, interested in buying a home, talk the matter over before him. They enlist his sympathy and he leaves home to seek work. He finds no work, but a jewel box, for which he receives $2,000 reward. This builds the home. Harris Gordon and Ethyle Cooke play Bobby's father and mother."

SYNOPSIS, The Moving Picture World, March 27, 1915:

"Bob, a little boy of six years of age, lives with his father, a cobbler, who wants to buy a home. Bob hears his father's plans and is interested; his love for him is so great that he decides to set aside his toys and help his father buy a home. He tires of his blocks, and he decides to go out and earn money. He leaves his sister, who is deeply interested in her book, and wanders away. He meets with many incidents, and in the course of his wanderings finds a valuable case of jewels for which there has been offered a reward of $2,000. His parents, returning, find him gone, and start a search for him. In the evening they discover him on the main street marching with the flag bearer of the Salvation Army, happy in his innocence. The money he receives for the finding of the jewels buys the cottage which was the choice of his father and mother."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, March 20, 1915:

"The Kidlet starts out in this number to collect money for the new home her parents want to build. She is dressed in boy's clothes and has many adventures. She puts out a fire, catches a burglar and finally finds a necklace for which a large reward is offered. This makes a pleasing story of its kind."

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