अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंA lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her,... सभी पढ़ेंA lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she... सभी पढ़ेंA lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she is awakened by a noise. Grabbing a pistol, she enters her father's downstairs office wher... सभी पढ़ें
- At Ice Cream Festival
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- At Ice Cream Festival
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- At Ice Cream Festival
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- At Ice Cream Festival
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- Little Girl in Arbor
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- Belle at Ice Cream Festival
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- Belle at Ice Cream Festival
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- Hired Hand
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- Beau at Ice Cream Festival
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- Boy with Dog
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- At Ice Cream Festival
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- At Ice Cream Festival
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The story is a little too scattered and the message is dated; this is a case where I actually wished for one or two (or three of more) title cards to show certain moments of dialog. The main core of the story is understood as that Sweet is a young woman who doesn't wear make-up (the story description here says her father forbids it, but I got the sense that she just doesn't like it, or doesn't conform). She goes out to some fair and she doesn't get as much attention as the other men.
But she does get into a conversation with one man and it appears he likes her for who she is... that is until it's revealed he's a burglar (what?) and breaks into her home. She doesn't know it's the same guy since he has a mask, she shoots him (sort of by accident), and when she discovers it she's sad. And then the rest of the movie is... her being even sadder. Was she traumatized by killing him? She then has fantasies of meeting someone who isn't there. And then at the end of the story she, uh, puts on make-up. Is it supposed to be a warning to women to put on make-up, to conform? Or is it a story where it's more personal, that this particular person didn't conform to societies standards of beauty and paid a personal price?
There's a hysterical undercurrent (and I mean that not in the funny way but in the old-time way that the word was used with women), and I'm not sure if this holds up very well. I was with the short at first as it was detailing a simple premise, and then it lost me a bit with the burglar component (I also didn't know her father was supposed to be a rich man or whatnot). Things like this make such a silent short dated despite the fact that Griffith's storytelling as director, as much as it's a mightily flawed story, is terrific and he has a great lead. It goes to show that even in 1912 if you haven't got a coherent story, you haven't got anything, all the technical prowess and fine acting besides.
In this story, as we see, shyness and a too-strict father are also making a dating life almost nonexistent for poor, makeup-less "the older sister" (Sweet).
What happens in this story is very strange, and you can read various accounts of it here. I guess the lonely girl wasn't too good at figuring out men. Chalk it up to loneliness and inexperience. What happens in her house, though, is too weird and dates the movie quite a bit. But, that's to be expected. After all, the movie isn't far from being 100 years old.
It's nice that these old D.W. Griffith shorts are still available to the public, even if they look a little odd.
Thanks to Blanche Sweet, the main character is mostly convincing. Sweet plays an older sister who wants to resist becoming a "Painted Lady", and much of the story revolves around issues that likely were more topical at the time than they would be now (or, at least, the issues involved would be much different in another era). That in part makes it of less interest than many other dramas of the time.
There are some good touches to the story, as in practically any Griffith short, and it holds your attention. But in the end, the movie leaves you feeling rather confused - it's hard to figure out what he was trying to say - and it's not one of his best.
In "The Painted Lady" The Older Sister (Blanche Sweet) eschewed make-up while The Younger Sister (Madge Kirby) had all the boys in the yard by virtue of her liberally using her war paint. But not all of the men flocked to The Younger Sister. At least one man, The Stranger (Joseph Graybill), was attracted to The Older Sister. Too bad his aims were criminal in nature. He was using the Older Sister as a means to get access to her father's business secrets.
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