Those Awful Hats
| Those Awful Hats | |
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| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Written by | D.W. Griffith |
| Starring | Mack Sennett |
| Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer |
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Original length 185 feet (under 3 minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent (English intertitles) |
Those Awful Hats is a 1909 American short comedy film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Mack Sennett. It takes place in a small, crowded movie theatre, where the patrons are perpetually distracted by people - primarily women - wearing large, ostentatious hats that obstruct everyone else's views of the screen. Slapstick disorder ensues. The film ends with a title card reading, "Ladies Will Please Remove Their Hats." A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.
Cast
- Mack Sennett as Man in checkered jacket
- Flora Finch as Woman with largest hat
- Linda Arvidson as Theatre Audience
- John R. Cumpson as Theatre Audience
- George Gebhardt as Theatre Audience
- Robert Harron as Theatre Audience
- Anita Hendrie as Theatre Audience
- Charles Inslee as Theatre Audience
- Arthur V. Johnson as Theatre Audience
- Florence Lawrence as Theatre Audience
- Gertrude Robinson as Theatre Audience
- Dorothy West as Theatre Audience