Lucky Jim (film)

Movie
Original title	Lucky Jim
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Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1909
length	6 minutes
Rod
Director	David Wark Griffith , ; Marion Leonard
script	Stanner EV Taylor
production	David Wark Griffith
camera	GW Bitzer , ; Arthur Marvin
occupation
	Marion Leonard : Gertrude; Mack Sennett : Jack; Barry O'Moore (as Herbert Yost): Jim, the first husband; Anita Hendrie : mother; David Miles : Father; Harry Solter : Jim's friend; Vivian Prescott : Housemaid; Herbert Prior : Minister; Linda Arvidson : Wedding guest; GW Bitzer; John R. Cumpson : wedding guest; Charles Inslee : wedding guest; Arthur V. Johnson : wedding guest; Florence Lawrence : wedding guest; Francis J. Grandon; Grace Henderson; Owen Moore : wedding guest; Anthony O'Sullivan : Wedding guest;

Jack ( Mack Sennett ): Happy Jim, how I envy you!

Jack ( Mack Sennett ) doesn't like Gertie's ( Marion Leonard ) coffee

Lucky Jim is an American comedy film of directors David Wark Griffith and Marion Leonard from the year 1909 . The writer wrote Stanner EV Taylor after one of his time-popular ragtime -Song, the silent film is a production of Biograph Company .

action

Jack and Jim are good buddies, but they both fall in love with Gertrude. Gertie marries Jim, and at their wedding the guest Jack sighs: Happy Jim, how I envy you! But Gertie is a horrible cook and at the same time very easily irritable. When Jim complains, one or the other piece of kitchen equipment lands on his head. Meanwhile, Jack sits alone at home and languishes at Gertie's picture. So some time goes by.

One day Jack receives news that Jim has fallen victim to an acute stomach ailment. Jack takes his chance and marries the widow. He is no better off than Jim, and when he spurns Gertie's coffee, dishes are thrown at him too, before Gertie leaves the room indignantly. Looking at his portrait with the mourning ribbon, Jack mumbles again: Happy Jim, how I envy you!

Production notes

Marion Leonard , who also plays Gertrude, did her only directorial work with Lucky Jim to David Wark Griffith.

The script is based on a popular ragtime song with a text by Charles Horowitz :

“By chance we found we loved the same sweet maid (…) Jim was happy, I a bachelor stayed (…) Ah, Lucky Jim, how I envied him! (...) Years rolled on, poor Jim passed on to heaven, With grief and sorrow in his grave was laid. When time drug by I married his dear widow, Jim was lucky, I unlucky stayed. Ah, lucky Jim, how I envied him! Ah, lucky Jim, how I envied him! "

“We happened to love the same woman (…) Jim was lucky, I remained a bachelor (…) Oh, happy Jim, how I envy him! (…) Years went by, Jim went to heaven, he was buried in sadness and tears. When the (mourning) time was over I married his dear widow. Jim was happy, I was unhappy. Oh, happy Jim, how I envy him! "

- Charles Horowitz

Lucky Jim is 502 feet long and was released as a one-reeler on 35mm film with Twin Brothers . The film was registered with the United States Copyright Office on April 11, 1909 and released in theaters on April 26, 1909. Copies are preserved in the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film .

criticism

The Moving Picture World published a brief review in its May 1, 1909 issue. Lucky Jim is a comedy with a variety of snapshots shown by the talented actors of the Biograph Company.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lucky Jim , Silent Era website , June 4, 2010, accessed January 17, 2019.
↑ display. In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 17, April 24, 1909, p. 505, digitized .
↑ Lucky Jim . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 17, April 24, 1909, p. 524, digitized .
^ ^A ^b Sarah Delahousse: Marion Leonard . In: Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal and Monica Dall'Asta (eds.): Women Film Pioneers Project . Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 2013, September 27, 2013, accessed January 2, 2019.
^ Maggie Hennefeld: Griffith's Body Language and Film Narration: “The Voluptuary” Versus “the Spiritual” . In: Charlie Keil (ed.): A Companion to DW Griffith . Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey and Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-1-118-34125-4 , pp. 245–283, here pp. 269–270.
↑ Comments on Film Subjects . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 18, May 1, 1909, p. 554, digitized .

[Silent-1] Lucky Jim , Silent Era website , June 4, 2010, accessed January 17, 2019.

[2] splay. In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 17, April 24, 1909, p. 505, digitized .

[3] Lucky Jim . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 17, April 24, 1909, p. 524, digitized .

[Delahousse-4] A ^b Sarah Delahousse: Marion Leonard . In: Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal and Monica Dall'Asta (eds.): Women Film Pioneers Project . Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 2013, September 27, 2013, accessed January 2, 2019.

[5] Maggie Hennefeld: Griffith's Body Language and Film Narration: “The Voluptuary” Versus “the Spiritual” . In: Charlie Keil (ed.): A Companion to DW Griffith . Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey and Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-1-118-34125-4 , pp. 245–283, here pp. 269–270.

[6] Comments on Film Subjects . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 18, May 1, 1909, p. 554, digitized .