Fine Feathers
About Fine Feathers
Arthur Vaughn, a painter played by Phillips Smalley, finds a cobbler's daughter, played by Lois Weber, in her father's shop and hires her as a model. He paints her once in her rags and once in the studio satins, and the two portraits make his name. At an Art League exhibition the president tells her to leave that life. She asks Vaughn to marry her. He refuses, she goes home, and he follows once he has decided that he does love her.
Cast & crew
More about Fine Feathers
Lois Weber wrote the scenario and directed with Phillips Smalley. Rex released the one-reel drama on February 1, 1912, through the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company, about six months before Universal was formed. Charles De Forrest is the third name on the cast list. A circulating copy runs 14 minutes 31 seconds.
Themes
Preservation
Prints survive. The Library of Congress holds one, and Silent Era lists another at the New York Public Library.
Notes
- Also titled The Fine Feathers.
- The woman in the portraits is the cobbler's daughter. She is not a housemaid.
- Wikipedia places a print at the Library of Congress. Silent Era places one at the New York Public Library.
- Weber and Smalley, who were married, share the direction credit.
Scenes
- He paints her first in the clothes she arrived in, then in the studio satins.
- She asks him to marry her after the Art League president speaks to her, and he says no.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Fine Feathers (1912).webm)
