The New York Hat

The New York Hat 1912 is a short silent film directed by D. W. Griffith from a screenplay by Anita Loos, and starring Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and Lillian Gish.

Mollie Goodhue leads a cheerless, impoverished life, largely because of her stern, miserly father. Mrs. Goodhue is mortally ill, but before dying, she gives the minister, Preacher Bolton, some money with which to buy her daughter the finery her father has always forbade her.Mollie is delighted when the minister presents her with a fashionable New York hat she has been longing for, but village gossips misinterpret the ministers intentions and spread malicious rumors. Mollie becomes a social pariah, and her father tears up the beloved hat in a rage. ........

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