13 September 1909 Comedy 7 mins
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When his disguise is revealed, the other men are too embarrassed to approach Lucy, and Bud dances the rest of the night with her.
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Billy Quirk as Bud (as William A. Quirk)
Mary Pickford as Miss Lucy
James Kirkwood as Jim Blake
Kate Bruce as Party Guest
Verner Clarges as Party Guest
Arthur V. Johnson as Party Guest
George Nichols as Miner
Anthony O'Sullivan as Miner
John R. Cumpson as Miner
Lottie Pickford as Party Guest
Gertrude Robinson as Party Guest
Mack Sennett as Miner
Henry B. Walthall as Miner
United States 13 September 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
15 October 1909
Based on the celebrated novel by Alessandro Manzoni, "The Betrothed", the film tells the passage of Lucia being sent on an errand by the Nun of Monza, her kidnapping at the hands of "the Unnamed", and this man's meeting with the Cardinal Borromeo, whose intercession is key for the liberation of Lucia.
28 June 1909
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and encircling a scene showing school children of 1830 receiving their marks of diligence at a distribution of rewards: then the wreath of bay tendered by the Human Senators to Caesar on the culmination of his career; now a beggar receives a loaf called a "crown" from a charitable passerby: Christ is shown crowned with thorns by the rabble; following the divine drama we see the old comedian's wreath presented him at a performance.
06 May 1909
First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.
10 November 1909
This tragedy depicts a father and son in love with the same woman, who is an enchantress. She keeps them both in subjection with her charms, butthe mother and wife of the victims kills the seducer.
17 May 1909
John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman.
15 April 1909
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her.
04 November 1909
Out for a stroll, the short-sighted governess is more absorbed in her paper than in governing, leading to a series of unfortunate events, not least returning home with a boy instead of the daughter of the house.
07 September 1909
At a house party, people are dancing.... but one of the guests slips away from his accomplice to go break open a locked cabinet and steal money.
01 July 1909
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
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