Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy family, who decide to get even when he blithely invites a group of derelicts to his sister's coming-out party.
Watch the official The Habit of Happiness 1916 trailer in HD below.
Douglas Fairbanks as Sunny Wiggins
George Fawcett as Jonathan Pepper
Macey Harlam as Foster
Dorothy West as Elsie Pepper
George Backus as Mr. Wiggins
Grace Rankin as Clarice Wiggins
William Jefferson as Jones
Adolphe Menjou as Society Man (uncredited)
Allan Dwan Director
Shannon Fife Writer
Allan Dwan Writer
Victor Fleming Director of Photography
United States 12 March 1916
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Silent Hall of Fame has created a Silent Gems Collection of rare and for the first time available films with our stars as well as other silent masterpieces.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1916:
01 December 1916
Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson.
17 September 1916
An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men.
30 October 1916
A father who despises his daughter, a boyfriend who refuses to marry the girl he knocked up, and a mother caught in the middle.
05 June 1916
Mink Jones of Jonesville, is the lord high executioner and everything else.
03 May 1916
Mr Vang, a clerk, has just moved into the fourth floor of a block of flats – and he has already gained a reputation as something of a troublemaker.
28 August 1916
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments.
10 July 1916
When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one. Glad Mason replies and sends her picture.
29 July 1916
Black La Rue was born on the Mexican border in times of raids and fights. His father was killed in one of the fights.
27 February 1916
The story takes place in Monte Carlo, where the impoverished Julian proposes marriage to the wealthy Dora, only to be turned down by the girl's mercenary mother.
22 May 1916
The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand Duke Karatoff, known to friends and enemies alike as "the butcher.
04 December 1916
Jim Blake, the playboy son of a New York millionaire, heads west to prove himself a man. He goes to work on his father's ranch in Wyoming, and eventually wins over the locals by turning the tables on a town bully and trying to collect damages from a railroad magnate, whose trains have killed many of the Blake ranch's cattle.
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