A Lucky Strike
About A Lucky Strike
Rich miner Bill Myers advertises for a wife and also gets an offer of a million dollars for his mine. Nellie Crehan and her niece Elinor answer the ad as a joke. When Bill arrives they dress the cook, Nora, as the woman who wrote the letter. Financiers track him to the house and hand him the check in front of everyone. Nellie exposes Nora. Bill tastes a pie, learns Nora baked it, and proposes to her.
Cast & crew
More about A Lucky Strike
Arthur Hotaling directed and wrote the one-reeler. Silent Era credits Siegmund Lubin as producer and General Film as distributor. Moving Picture World printed the plot in the week of 15 May 1915. The release date is 18 May 1915. Mae Hotely, who plays Nora, was Hotaling's wife. Oliver Hardy plays Bill.
Themes
Preservation
A print exists. Lobster issued a restoration on DVD in France in 2020.
Notes
- Cora Walker plays Nelle Crehan and Frances Ne Moyer plays Elinor. Jerold T. Hevener plays Thomas Gray of the mining firm.
- A 2020 French DVD from Lobster includes a restoration.
- The picture is in the public domain in the United States. A print survives.
Scenes
- Nora is dressed up to receive Bill.
- The financiers hand him a check for a million dollars in the parlor.
- Bill proposes after a slice of Nora's pie.
Also available
- Lobster DVD (France, 2020)
