:Her Painted Hero
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Her Painted Hero is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by F. Richard Jones and written by Mack Sennett. Harold Lloyd appears in the film, uncredited.
Premise
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An heiress plans to use her new wealth for influence on the stage.
The play being shown within the film is titled What Sherman Said, and is seemingly an epic about the Civil War.{{Cite book |last=Massa |first=Steve |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtCKDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Her+Painted+Hero%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA1402 |title=Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy |publisher=BearManor Media |language=en}}
Cast
- Hale Hamilton as a Matinee Idol
- Charles Murray as a Property Man
- Slim Summerville as a Bill-Poster
- Polly Moran as a Stage-struck Maiden
- Harry Booker as the Maiden's Father
- Harold Lloyd as a minister (uncredited){{Cite book |last=Walker |first=Brent E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvmcAwAAQBAJ&dq=her+painted+hero+sennett&pg=PA59 |title=Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel |date=2010-01-13 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5707-6 |language=en}}
Production
The film was written by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Studios.{{Cite book |last=King |first=Rob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VOIDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Her+Painted+Hero%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA154 |title=The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture |date=2008-12-10 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-25538-8 |language=en}} Also credited as the Keystone Film Company the logo clearly visible within the film is for the amalgamated company "Keystone Triangle", later to be abbreviated to Tri-stone Pictures. In 2007, when the independent film studio Cineville merged with the DVD distributor Westlake Entertainment, the companies named their joint enterprise Keystone.Robertson, Willa (2007-07-18). [https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/cineville-westlake-create-keystone-1117968802/ "Cineville, Westlake create Keystone"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815131448/https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/cineville-westlake-create-keystone-1117968802/ |date=2018-08-15 }}. Variety. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
Release
The film was distributed in France as Vermicel artiste peintre.{{Cite book |last=Couderc |first=Jean-Jacques |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GBwLCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Her+Painted+Hero%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA550 |title=Les petits maîtres du burlesque américain, 1902-1929 |date=2015-04-13 |publisher=CNRS Éditions via OpenEdition |isbn=978-2-271-07853-7 |language=fr}}
Status
Home video
Her Painted Hero was included on various DVDs gathering silent comedies.{{Cite web |title=Silent Era : Home Video Reviews |url=https://www.silentera.com/video/collKeystoneKeatonFestHV.html |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=www.silentera.com}}
The film is part of the 50 movie pack Comedy Classics DVD collection, released in 2007.Universal comedy classics series.{{cite web |last1=Mill Creek Entertainment, OverDrive, Inc |title=Front cover image for Her painted hero Her painted hero |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/155838000 |access-date=2023-10-24 |archive-date=2023-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031120440/https://www.worldcat.org/title/155838000 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/128325542 |title=Front cover image for 50 movie pack : Comedy Classics DVD collection 50 movie pack : Comedy Classics DVD collection |archive-date=2023-10-31 |access-date=2023-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031130449/https://www.worldcat.org/title/128325542 |url-status=live }}
Reception
The New York Times sees in this short film an "example of a curious movie phenomena".{{Cite news |date=1915-10-18 |title=THE SABLE LORCHA' A THRILLING FILM; Movie Drama Shown at the Knickerbocker Contains a Story Rich in Adventure. SAME MAN PORTRAYS TWINS Cinema Trick Brings Actor Twice on the Screen at the Same Moment. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/10/18/archives/the-sable-lorcha-a-thrilling-film-movie-drama-shown-at-the.html |access-date=2023-10-31 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2023-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029204802/https://www.nytimes.com/1915/10/18/archives/the-sable-lorcha-a-thrilling-film-movie-drama-shown-at-the.html |url-status=live }} The film's technical particularities were also noted in a review for The Moving Picture World, January 1916.{{Cite web |last=Model |first=Ben |date=2020-11-16 |title="Her Painted Hero", Shot Through a Projector |url=https://silentfilmmusic.com/shot-through-a-projector/ |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=Ben Model |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026000549/https://silentfilmmusic.com/shot-through-a-projector/ |url-status=live }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0005475}}
- [https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HerPaintedHero1915.html Progressive Silent Film List]
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Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American comedy short films
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