Birthday scenes

irishguy1 · Post by **irishguy1** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 7:43 am

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.

maliejandra · Post by **maliejandra** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:31 am

The first one that comes to mind is Mary Pickford preparing a birthday cake and party for her father in Little Annie Rooney.

greta de groat · Post by **greta de groat** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 11:02 am

There is a fraught birthday party in Smouldering Fires.

greta

Post by **silentfilm** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:15 pm

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.

Brooksie · Post by **Brooksie** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:38 pm

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.

Rodney · Post by **Rodney** » Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:40 pm

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.

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