Bab the Fixer
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{{infobox film
| name = Bab the Fixer
| image = Bab the Fixer.jpg
| caption =
| director = Sherwood MacDonald
| producer = E. D. Horkheimer
H. M. Horkheimer
| writer = Lee Arthur (screen story)
Lee Arthur (scenario)
Jackie Saunders (scenario)
| starring = Jackie Saunders
| music =
| cinematography = William Beckway
| editing =
| studio = Balboa Amusement Producing Company
| distributor = Mutual Film
| released = {{Film date|1917|8|13}}
| runtime = 5 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Bab the Fixer is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama film produced by E. D. Horkheimer and distributed by Mutual Film. Sherwood MacDonald directed and Jackie Saunders (wife of producer Horkheimer), who co-wrote the screenplay, stars. The film is lost.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BabTheFixer1917.html Progressive Silent Film List: Bab the Fixer] at silentera.com
This film is not related to the series of 'Babs' films starring Marguerite Clark released by Paramount later that year.
Plot
Bab Porter is a young girl who moves west with her family after her stockbroker father John Porter loses their money through bad stock investments. After 10 years of living on the Ranch, Bab has all the characteristics of a cowgirl. Bab falls in love with Richard Sterling, a former clerk and self-made man. Bab’s mother does not approve of the match and wishes her daughter to marry up in social status. After the Porter family discovers oil on their ranch, Bab’s mother sends her to finishing school back east to assist her in landing a suitable husband.
When Bab returns from school, she learns her mother and father have separated. Bab then works as a “fixer” for her parents’ marriage. The movie ends with her own wedding to Richard, the man she loved all along.
Cast
- Jackie Saunders as Bab
- Leslie T. Peacocke as John Porter
- Mollie McConnell as Adelaide Porter
- Ruth Lackaye as Mrs. Drexel
- R. Henry Grey as LeRoy Scott
- Arthur Shirley as Richard Sterling
Reception
Like many American films of the time, Bab the Fixer was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors ordered cut a scene showing a girl at a table thumbing her nose.{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=5 |issue=11 |page=33 |date=September 8, 1917 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald05exhi#page/n532/mode/1up}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0007665}}
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Category:1917 comedy-drama films
Category:1910s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language comedy-drama films
Category:Films based on short fiction
Category:Lost American comedy-drama films
Category:Lost silent American films
Category:Silent American comedy-drama films
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