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John Petticoats
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Wikipedia article
'John Petticoats' is a 1919 American silent action film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. The film stars William S. Hart, Walt Whitman, George Webb, Winifred Westover, Ethel Shannon, and Andrew Arbuckle. The film was released on November 2, 1919, by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, John Haynes (Hart), a lumberman known as "Hardwood," receives a letter informing him that he has inherited a business establishment in New Orleans. Surprised, although pleasantly so, he goes to that city to look over his heritage and finds that the business consists of a shop merchandising ladies' ware. In charge of the shop is Rosalie Andre (Shannon), whom he lets continue with the management of the store, with Hardwood John boarding with Judge Clay Emerson Meredith (Whitman) and keeping his identity secret. Caroline (Westover), the Judge's granddaughter, soon attracts John's attention, and mutual love ripens. Rosalie comes to grief at the hands of one Wayne Page (Webb), the dissolute son of a rich family who is also a rival for the hand of Caroline, and John is required to use force to see that Wayne does the wronged young woman justice. John and Caroline then look forward to their own happiness.
Cast
*William S. Hart as 'Hardwood' John Haynes
*Walt Whitman as Judge Clay Emerson Meredith
*George Webb as Wayne Page
*Winifred Westover as Caroline Meredith
*Ethel Shannon as Rosalie Andre
*Andrew Arbuckle as Rameses
Preservation
A copy of 'John Petticoats' is in the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art film archive and the Gosfilmofond Archive.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/J/JohnPetticoats1919.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'John Petticoats'] at silentera.com'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress', (<-book title) p.94 c.1978 by the American Film Institute[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2537/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:'..John Petticoats']
References
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