An Indian Summer
About An Indian Summer
A widower takes a room at a seaside boarding house run by a widow and her daughter. He and the widow like each other at once. He thinks his white, thin hair will lose him the match, and he writes a hair-tonic firm. He tries to hide the letter. She decides it is from another woman and sets out to make him jealous. The quarrel is straightened out by the end.
Cast & crew
More about An Indian Summer
D. W. Griffith directed. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Biograph produced it and General Film Company released it on July 8, 1912. The copyright deposit is July 12, 1912, J171149. The Library of Congress notes that it was photographed in California about April 1912. W. Chrystie Miller plays the widower, Kate Bruce the widow, and Mary Pickford the daughter. Wikidata gives 17 minutes.
Themes
Making
The boarding-house story was shot in California during Biograph's winter stay, about April 1912.
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the California exteriors and the boarding-house rooms.
Preservation
A paper print is at the Library of Congress. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Library of Congress subject headings include love in old age, widows, widowers, and medicinal tonics.
- A paper print is in the Library of Congress, from the Mary Pickford Collection.
- Bert Hendler is also in the cast list.
- The title uses "Indian summer" for a late romance, not a season picture.
Scenes
- He hides the tonic letter and she reads it as a rival.
- The boarding-house quarrel ends with the match restored.
Also available
- Library of Congress
