Those Awful Hats is a 1909 American short comedy film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Mack Sennett. It takes place in a small, crowded movie theatre, where the patrons are perpetually distracted by people - primarily women - wearing large, ostentatious hats that obstruct everyone else's views of the screen. Slapstick disorder ensues. The film ends with a title card reading, "Ladies Will Please Remove Their Hats." A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.

Cast

Mack Sennett as Man in checkered jacket

Flora Finch as Woman with largest hat

Linda Arvidson as Theatre Audience

John R. Cumpson as Theatre Audience

George Gebhardt as Theatre Audience

Robert Harron as Theatre Audience

Anita Hendrie as Theatre Audience

Charles Inslee as Theatre Audience

Arthur V. Johnson as Theatre Audience

Florence Lawrence as Theatre Audience

Gertrude Robinson as Theatre Audience

Dorothy West as Theatre Audience

See also

1909 in film

D. W. Griffith filmography

References

External links

Those Awful Hats on YouTube

Those Awful Hats available for free download at Internet Archive

1909 films

1909 comedy films

1909 short films

American silent short films

Silent American comedy films

American black-and-white films

American comedy short films

Films directed by D. W. Griffith

Articles containing video clips

Surviving American silent films

1900s American films

Those Awful Hats