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Birthday scenes
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 7:43 am
by irishguy1
I'm searching for silent films that are about birthdays or featuring birthday or celebration scenes. Any suggestions of films that fit that would be appreciated.
Re: Birthday scenes
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:31 am
by maliejandra
The first one that comes to mind is Mary Pickford preparing a birthday cake and party for her father in Little Annie Rooney.
Re: Birthday scenes
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 11:02 am
by greta de groat
There is a fraught birthday party in Smouldering Fires.
greta
Re: Birthday scenes
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:15 pm
by silentfilm
In D. W. Griffith's Battle of the Sexes (1928), Belle Bennett has a birthday party with her family. She fails to blow out all of the candles on her cake on her first try, and her birthday wish definitely does not come true. There is another birthday party for her at the end of the film.
Re: Birthday scenes
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:38 pm
by Brooksie
Stella Dallas (1925) has a heartbreaking sequence where the daughter has a birthday party to which nobody turns up because of her mother's poor reputation.
Re: Birthday scenes
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:40 pm
by Rodney
silentfilm wrote: ↑Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:15 pm
In D. W. Griffith's
Battle of the Sexes (1928),
And if you listen closely, Mont Alto is playing "Good Morning to You" instead of "Happy Birthday to You," because that was when someone was profiting hugely by claiming a non-existent copyright on the Happy Birthday song.