She Wanted to Marry a Hero (1910)

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman who reads too many adventure stories keeps chasing after men she thinks are heroes. Each one turns out to have serious flaws. She eventually gives up and settles for her steady boyfriend.

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What happens

She Wanted to Marry a Hero is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. Elsie Plush, an avid dime novel reader, came to idolize the concept of a hero and rejected her plain boyfriend, George Mild. She idolizes a series of men, only to have each ideal candidate be shattered a short time later by a series of incidents which highlight their flaws or weaknesses. In the end, Elsie returns and accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposal. Released on April 29, 1910, as split-reel with The Cigars His Wife Brought, the film was given favorable reviews and had advertisements for its showing until late 1912. The film is presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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