Getting Even
About Getting Even
In a mining camp the men flirt with Lucy and ignore Bud, the youngest. At a dance Bud puts on a woman's dress. The men leave Lucy and flirt with him. When the disguise comes off they are too embarrassed to go back to her, and Bud dances the rest of the night with Lucy.
Cast & crew
More about Getting Even
D. W. Griffith directed for Biograph. Billy Bitzer photographed it. Biograph released it on September 13, 1909. Mary Pickford, who plays Lucy, is also listed as a writer alongside Griffith.
Background
A one-reel Biograph comedy released on September 13, 1909.
Making
Griffith used the Biograph stock company for the camp dance, with Pickford as Lucy and Quirk in the dress.
Look
Billy Bitzer photographed the camp and the dance.
Preservation
A print is in the Library of Congress film archive.
Notes
- Billy Quirk plays Bud and Mary Pickford plays Miss Lucy. James Kirkwood plays Jim Blake.
- Mack Sennett, Henry B. Walthall, Arthur V. Johnson, Florence La Badie, and Lottie Pickford are in the company.
- A print is in the Library of Congress film archive.
Scenes
- Bud arrives at the dance dressed as a woman, and the miners drop Lucy for him.
- The dress comes off, and the men will not go back to Lucy.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Getting Even (1909).webm)
