What the Daisy Said
About What the Daisy Said
Sisters Martha and Milly pull petals in a daisy field and both get a yes. Martha turns down a farmhand, then goes to a gypsy camp to check the flower. The young gypsy reads her palm to suit himself. She meets him at a waterfall. She later sends Milly for a reading. He kisses Milly there, and Martha sees it. Their father finds Milly with the gypsy, hits him, and is struck back. Martha hides the gypsy in a barrel while a search party passes. The party later catches him at the fortune-teller's wagon and drives him out of town.
Cast & crew
More about What the Daisy Said
D. W. Griffith directed. Wikidata leaves the director blank; Wikipedia and AFI credit Griffith. Stanner E. V. Taylor wrote it. Copyright J143189, July 13, 1910. The negative was 987 feet. The Library of Congress note says the scenes were shot in a rural area.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the rural one-reeler.
Preservation
A print is on the Internet Archive under the catalog identifier.
Notes
- Mary Pickford plays Martha. Gertrude Robinson plays Milly. Owen Moore plays the young gypsy.
- Kate Bruce, George Nichols, and Mack Sennett are in the catalog cast.
- AFI's synopsis frames the daisy as a prophet the girl stops trusting.
Scenes
- Martha and Milly strip a daisy in the field.
- Martha hides the gypsy in a barrel as the search party goes by.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-what-the-daisy-said)
