Fonds/collection:
DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Remarks:
- 1. Material was received from Dawson City in 2 shipments - 506 reels in 1978 and 26 reels in 1980. Of these 389 reels, primarily of American fiction, were transferred to Library of Congress for conversion. Reference copies of some of these reels were returned to NFTSA.
Accession number:
1979-0191
Title:
The Servant Girl's Legacy
Production company:
- Lubin Manufacturing Company
Production Credit:
- director, Arthur Hotaling (?); scenario, Epes Winthrop Sergent
Cast credit:
Mabel Paige, Oliver "Babe" Hardy, Ed Lawrence, Eloise Willard, Marguerite Ne Moyer, Frances Ne Moyer, Raymond McKee, Royal Byron, Bert Tracy
Description:
- Mandy, the servant girl, rejects the advances of Cy, the butler. A telegram announces to Mandy that her deceased uncle has willed her his entire fortune. Mandy becomes popular in the family where she works as the news gets around. She borrows money for clothes. Cy is jealous of other boys. The two daugthers get their boy friends to butter up Mandy in the hope of getting some of the money. Cy intervenes and gets slightly roughed-up. Mandy comes to his rescue. Another telegram arrives saying that the bequest amounted to $25.00. Mandy returns to her chores to the taunts of the family. Only Cy sticks by her. The servant girl finally accepts an engagement ring from him. Another telegram arrives with the news that a typing error had been made and the bequest wa really $250,000. The family returns to their old tricks, but a wiser Mandy spurns them and falls into the arms of her fiance, Cy. <6mn 22s>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Copyright Status:
Copyright expired.
Copyright Owner:
- Original copyright owner: Lubin Manufacturing Company.
Restrictions on Consultation:
~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Donor Restrictions:
Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.
Notes:
- 1. Copyright: Lubin Mfg. Co. (Epes W. Sargent, author); 17Nov14; LP3797.
- 2. This film is the earliest Oliver Hardy film existing today.
- 3. Arthur Hotaling, the creator of this film, died in 1938 - copyright expired.
Consultation copy:
- V1 8112-0089
- V1 8102-0024
