Hoodoo Ann
About Hoodoo Ann
Ann, left at the Meadowdale orphanage as a baby on a Friday the thirteenth, works as the drudge, convinced by Black Cindy, the orphanage's Black cook, that she is hoodooed. She saves Goldie from a fire, and Samuel and Elinor Knapp adopt her and take her to Peaceful Street. Two years later, after she and neighbor Jimmie Vance see the Western Maverick Charley's Revenge, she fires Mr. Knapp's gun through the wall and thinks she has killed Bill Higgins. Constable Drake questions Bill's wife, Sarah, and Ann confesses. Bill walks in unhurt, the blood is the cat's, and Ann marries Jimmie.
Cast & crew
More about Hoodoo Ann
Lloyd Ingraham directed Mae Marsh's first Triangle film for the Fine Arts Film Company. D. W. Griffith supervised, wrote the scenario as Granville Warwick, and, according to Silent Era, directed some sequences. Triangle copyrighted it on February 14, 1916 (LP8298) and released it on March 26, 1916. On December 18, 1915, Motion Picture News reported that Marsh held her hand near a red-hot stove for the fire close-ups.
Themes
Reviews
Oscar Cooper, in Motion Picture News on April 15, 1916, called the Western that Ann and Jimmie watch an old-style "mellerdrammer," a burlesque on the old school of pictures that the plot also needs.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database lists the film as extant. Silent Era notes a 16mm fine-grain duplicate negative in the holdings of Blackhawk Films.
Notes
- Mae Marsh plays Ann. Robert Harron plays Jimmie Vance. William H. Brown plays Wilson Vance, his father. Wilbur Higby and Loyola O'Connor play Samuel and Elinor Knapp. Mildred Harris plays Goldie.
- Madame Sul-Te-Wan plays Black Cindy. Pearl Elmore plays Miss Prudence Scraggs. Anna Hernandez and Charles Lee play Sarah and Bill Higgins. Robert Lawler plays Constable Drake. Elmo Lincoln plays Officer Lambert. Carl Stockdale plays Gordon Sanderson, also called Mustang Charley.
- The picture runs five reels, 5,000 feet.
- Motography of March 4, 1916 said the film had just been finished and was being shipped to New York for a premiere at Triangle's Knickerbocker Theatre.
- Triangle distributed it.
Scenes
- Ann carries Goldie out of the orphanage fire.
- After Maverick Charley's Revenge, she fires Mr. Knapp's gun through the wall.
- Bill Higgins walks in alive. The blood on the floor is the cat's.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Hoodoo Ann (1916).webm)
