Lucky Jim
About Lucky Jim
Jim and Jack both want Gertrude. She marries Jim. Her first meal is so bad that she throws the dishes at him. A newspaper later reports that Jim has died of acute indigestion. Jack marries the widow. At their first meal he refuses her coffee and gets the same crockery. He looks at Jim's mourning portrait and sighs that he envies lucky Jim.
Cast & crew
More about Lucky Jim
D. W. Griffith directed. Stanner E. V. Taylor wrote the scenario. G. W. Bitzer and Arthur Marvin photographed it. Biograph released the comedy on 26 April 1909 on a split reel with Twin Brothers. The copyright, H125728, is dated 11 April 1909. Silent Era gives the length as 502 feet.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer and Arthur Marvin photographed the 502-foot Biograph comedy.
Preservation
Silent Era records that a print exists.
Notes
- Marion Leonard plays Gertrude, Mack Sennett plays Jack, and Herbert Yost plays Jim.
- Anita Hendrie and David Miles play her parents. Harry Solter plays Jim's friend.
- Vivian Prescott plays the maid and Herbert Prior the minister.
- Wedding guests include Linda Arvidson, Florence Lawrence, Owen Moore, Arthur V. Johnson, and Charles Inslee.
- The Moving Picture World synopsis is the source for Jim's death by acute indigestion and for Jack's last line.
- A print exists. The film is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Gertrude answers Jim's complaint about dinner by throwing the tableware.
- Jack, newly married to the widow, gets the same treatment and envies the portrait of Jim.
Also available
- Internet Archive (LuckyJim)
- Wikimedia Commons (Lucky Jim (1909).webm)
Quotes
Oh, lucky Jim, how I envy him.
